Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 2 | ‘ I cut a picture of a model in a swimsuit out of Vogue and posted it back to one man . |
| 3 | The candlelight had taken his cheap suit and made it over in some priceless fabric . |
| 4 | But when someone tried to test the security of the spare wheel attached to the side of the body by pulling at it roughly and then , intrigued by the pair of leather driving-gauntlets resting on the front seat , fitted them on and passed them around for general examination he decided it was time to leave . |
| 5 | Hopefully , er I thought we , we played very very well at Port Vale last week and passed it around with three men in the middle of the park . |
| 6 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 7 | He came through the door and he backed Cati against the rough wall of the hideout and rammed his pelvis against her stomach and pinned her down with one hand flat against her chest and with the other drew his belt through the loops of his soldier 's jacket and slashed her across the face with the buckle doubled against the leather . |
| 8 | First time I went to Norwich alone , he come up to school and got me out at half past nine in the morning . |
| 9 | His score was later duplicated by Carl Watts ( Hawkstone ) , who notched five birdies and got it back in 31 . |
| 10 | about five grand at one stage and got it down to three and half , and then he got to six hundred and eighty and they went to court |
| 11 | and caught them out with some incisive breaks . |
| 12 | And then inside building we completely demolished inside , just sort of left the retaining walls and built it up from fourteen feet below the ground to five storeys , high , itself . |
| 13 | She took one of my mother 's gingham breakfast napkins from a drawer and wrung it out in cold water . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're the fourteenth person who 's worked out I 'm staying with Lucy and phoned me up with crazy stories about Liam . |
| 15 | Using all his cunning arts he forged himself a blade and wove it round with deadly enchantments . |
| 16 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 17 | The folk at Fanmore gave them a good fight last week , and drove them off with five men dead , and they 've not been seen since . |
| 18 | The old man dropped the line and put his foot on it and lifted the harpoon as high as he could and drove it down with all his strength , and more strength he had just summoned , into the fish 's side just behind the great chest fill that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man 's chest . |
| 19 | He got a key to the blanket store and rented it out to randy nurses and hungry walking-wounded , many of whom he had introduced in the first place . |
| 20 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 21 | He reached for the engine control and turned it up to full power . |
| 22 | In the evening rush-hour a lorry had skidded into a car and jammed it up against one of the pillar-boxes outside the hospital . |
| 23 | Yeah , they go got it and swung it up like that , and I 'm sure to the stallion could n't find where it was ! |
| 24 | who has been with Enterprise Engineering Services since day one , made up a new section and welded it in with great success ! |
| 25 | The recriminations and angst of an unhappy marriage that reverberated through my head could well have had a self-destructive influence in that lonely , haunting valley and finished me off for good , no doubt . |
| 26 | Steven threw in lots of baseball , and tinkle-plunk John Williams soundtrack , and finished it off with one enormous Big Hug . |
| 27 | In 1923 , Jehu and Craig produced the first detailed account of the geology of this region , and followed it up with further accounts between 1925 and 1934 . |
| 28 | In fact , I made a major decision in '84 , and followed it through in '86 . |
| 29 | Her most beguiling quality was her air of dreamy detachment ; she liked being kissed , and kissed them back with mobile lips and a tantalisingly timid tongue , but at the end of a hectic hour of necking , when her partner would be scarlet-faced , sore-lipped and aching with frustrated desire , she was maddeningly serene . |
| 30 | But his own doctor said he was not fit even for office work and signed him off for another six months because of ‘ obesity and hypertension ’ . |