Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Glentoran went even closer when Gary Smyth hit the inside of the post after Keenan had fumbled a Hillis cross . |
| 2 | The Prior questioned him closely and Corbett answered as accurately as he could . |
| 3 | The day was fabulous and David performed extremely well although he was in the blackest of moods . |
| 4 | Yet it appears that litigators and judges behaved little differently than in police courts . |
| 5 | At last , at dinner one evening , the conversations and laughter died away raggedly as Duart stood up at the high table and raised his hand . |
| 6 | The reproduction rates of some countries , regions and classes dropped more steeply than others . |
| 7 | The intensity of Comfort 's concentration was almost palpable and Julia lay as still as she could and breathed as carefully as her sodden lungs would allow so as not to disturb her . |
| 8 | The world of this novel is as much his country as the wild , half-derelict countrified pockets around the rapidly developing suburbia of Wimbledon , Kensington , and Battersea which the fictitious Philip and Arthur explored as thoroughly as the real Arthur Hardy and Edward had explored the parts of London commons which they called ‘ Our Country ’ . |
| 9 | The fingers tightened round her arm , biting deep into her flesh as she continued to struggle , and Fran knew as clearly as she knew her own name that he had no intention of letting her go . |
| 10 | Hari 's wash of hurt pride and anger vanished as suddenly as it had come , though she realized that Craig 's words were no more than flattery . |
| 11 | But even in this , the red bitch was not to be counted on : fierceness and docility alternated as unpredictably as the direction of the winds that flounced through the valley in the early monsoon . |
| 12 | When Kate and Peter moved there more than 20 years ago , there was a patch of grass in front of the house in which languished an etiolated hybrid tea rose or two . |
| 13 | The shrieking sent shivers up Tallis 's spine , and Wyn-rajathuk paled even more as he straightened and stared , alarmed , through the lodge walls , towards the mortuary hill . |
| 14 | Rohmer had hold of the filing cabinet with Jimmy now , and Cardiff and Barbara moved quickly aside as Duvall reached the landing again , looking vacantly at the wrestling match with the cabinet . |
| 15 | Once they had left the shop and collected their horses , Athelstan and Cranston rode as fast as they could up Piper Alley back into the main thoroughfare . |
| 16 | Toiling up the slope from Falmer railway station , you had the Kafkaesque sensation of walking into an endlessly deep stage set where apparently three-dimensional objects turned out to be painted flats , and reality receded as fast as you pursued it . |
| 17 | Even when Shaun and Bez went as far as editing Penthouse for the day , papers tutted and sighed but still printed pictures of the pair grinning like village idiots , surrounded by tits and bums . |
| 18 | John McNeill , for example , asserts that the ‘ … issue between Romans and Celts went far deeper than the recorded exchange of arguments indicates ’ . |
| 19 | Ships were carved from the blighted forests with supernatural speed , and raiders moved as far as the Isle of the Dead before being turned back by the warding spells . |
| 20 | But Cambridge looked nowhere near as effective after manager John Beck withdrew White at half-time . |
| 21 | He had concocted all sorts of elaborate stories about why he wanted access , but things proved rather easier than he had expected . |