Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] a [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Design a colour-coordinated room , grow plants in it , or put up a bookshelf to help those 300 hours pass more quickly ! |
| 2 | Womenwealth is still unfunded so we ca n't respond individually or put out a catalogue to open up the market for our womens ' products . |
| 3 | AN ornithologist sent off £20 for a ‘ parabolic microphone kit ’ to record his favourite birdsongs from 250 yards — and got back a WOK used for stir-frying . |
| 4 | The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour . |
| 5 | In 1944 representatives of every allied government met in Chicago and drew up a convention containing ninety-six articles which were to provide the framework upon which civil aviation could be rebuilt after the end of the Second World War . |
| 6 | And when she brought it to him , he did not take it from her , but only felt in the deep pocket stitched into its lining , and drew out a parchment rolled and sealed , which he reached across the table and laid before Iago Vaughan . |
| 7 | A MAN passed himself off as a solicitor to get into a prison and beat up a prisoner accused of molesting his daughter , it was revealed today . |
| 8 | We were in New York , and came round a corner to find fifteen Father Christmases trying to decide whether or not to go on strike . |
| 9 | Before that , though , I opened a can of whole chicken and ripped off a leg dribbling with jelly . |
| 10 | Dreading that nobody would look after her when they died , the couple drove the 25-year-old girl to a beauty spot and rigged up a device to fill the car with deadly exhaust fumes . |
| 11 | Pauline and John knocked down an adjoining wall and opened up a staircase to create a large , bright room |
| 12 | The monkeys jumped south to avoid Fitz , but Macho was there and rushed up a tree to block the route , while Ulysse , anticipating Macho 's move , rushed into a tree east of both Fitz and Macho . |
| 13 | Parkinson reached into an inside pocket and brought out a leather bound silver flask . |
| 14 | She made herself a pump organ , and Dreamed up a man to play it . |
| 15 | The rider bent down and reached out a hand to shake that of Markby and of Pringle . |
| 16 | The king sighed and stirred in his chair , and reached out a hand to ring the small silver bell on his table for his chamberlain . |
| 17 | The next break-down occurred in the spring of 1989 and took over a year to clear up . |
| 18 | When he 'd recovered , he went to a suitcase in a corner of the room and took out a T-shirt to use as a swab . |
| 19 | He bashed me over the head and took out a knife to threaten me . |
| 20 | When the last patient had gone , Reid opened the refrigerator in the dispensary and took out a packet wrapped in white paper . |
| 21 | Gabriel crawled off into a corner and scrabbled together a nest made out of costumes and coils of rope , and curled up in the centre of that . |
| 22 | Harry felt his way backwards to the wall , out of range of the searching eyes , and leaned there a moment to breathe more easily . |
| 23 | ‘ We just started a band going and put up a notice looking for a female singer so Dolores turned up . ’ |
| 24 | Mike took one look at her furious face , and Ace 's flabbergasted one , and put up a hand to hide his mouth , but he could n't stop his eyes from dancing with amusement . |
| 25 | ‘ I lifted it out onto the pathway and had quite a job to prise the frog from the seemingly lifeless fish . ’ |
| 26 | The crooks drove into the factory at Slough , Berks , and towed away a trailer containing £36,000-worth of the bars . |
| 27 | Tammuz sat down in a chair opposite her and picked up a pen to fiddle with . |
| 28 | The Lithuanian parliament adopted on Nov. 5 , by 76 votes to none , a law on issuing currency , and set up a committee to determine the implementation of the new currency , the litas . |
| 29 | West Mercia police have already been in touch with nine other forces and set up a committee covering the west and south of England , the Midlands and Wales to prevent any more Castlemorton style gatherings . |
| 30 | The Council received the memorandum , and set up a sub-committee to consider it , with Lord Kings Norton in the chair . |