Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [vb past] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | And Joe waited , cruelly , and nothing happened at the other end of the line . |
2 | Mala and I stared at the enlarging disc that appeared on other screens after Posi revolved the ship to bring the lateral ceptors to bear . |
3 | ( 1966 : 72 ) recognized such unobtrusive measures have found favour in field-work and I discovered at an early stage that the problem remains one of revealing the structural warts of the system while somehow indicating that this need not be seditious ; and indeed might even be of some value . |
4 | And I started at the General Hospital er in on May the first nineteen twenty nine . |
5 | And I mentioned at the last meeting I think what has actually been said in the erm meeting I could repeat that , but I mean it confirms exactly what you 're saying . |
6 | Of a sudden Aggie rose from the table and left the room , and the smile slid slowly from Millie 's face and she looked at the funny young man , as she thought of him , and said , ‘ Is she vexed ? ’ |
7 | Which left her free to make mistakes , overdo the set of his features , and she grinned at the strange yet familiar creature , disdainful nose , filll lips and ridiculous chin . |
8 | And she tugged at the patterned chenille cloth spread on the table . |
9 | A second stroke followed without respite , and she squealed at the strange torment it brought to her twin moons . |
10 | Then a long glass appeared in her hand , and a straw , and she sipped at an amber drink , and ice cubes clinked . |
11 | Lucenzo reached out and pushed back the tress of copper hair which had fallen over her forehead , and she trembled at the sensual drift of his fingers over her face . |
12 | He tightened her to him , parting her lips , and she moaned at the primitive caress of his tongue stroking against hers , exploring her mouth . |
13 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
14 | of Friday and we looked at the individual steps but we know , everybody says yes we ask the business , we came across and to put Gareth , can you take it through and explain what it is , and explain each stage so let's hear from Gareth then . |
15 | The wherry pulled in and we disembarked at the great garden gate . |
16 | Kāli chose the steeper , shorter route to the forest and we climbed at a leisurely pace , stopping occasionally to catch our breath , lurching drunkenly and bumping into each other when the gradient increased and we were too lazy to keep up our momentum . |
17 | The adrenalin was running high for Haslemere 's final league game of the season and they began at a relentless pace . |
18 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
19 | He listened to what she said and they laughed at the same things . |
20 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
21 | He was supposed to deliver a bull to the district officer , it was about three weeks ago , and he decided at the last moment to replace the bull with another one . |
22 | And he waved at the magnificent room , and her whole luxurious life which she knew beyond a doubt that she was willing to give up forever . |
23 | The story of the railways is intimately tied up with the wider saga of the industrialization of Europe , and it proceeded at a different rate in each country . |
24 | The conference theme was ‘ From a socialist to a market-oriented society ’ and it looked at the growing opportunities for women within the new social structures . |
25 | I knew a putt would have to drop before long and it came at the 8th , the par-3 ( 178 yards ) . |
26 | And it sat at the other side of the gate |
27 | It had been aimed at my head , but I moved at the last second , prompted by some unclassified intuition of survival . |
28 | but , erm , she was hoping to come to the meeting this evening , but she phoned at the last minute and said she could n't make it , but erm , I do n't know if it would be more appropriate perhaps for the schools groups to get in touch with her and I |
29 | But she pulled at the pink blanket and did n't say anything . |
30 | In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience . |