Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |