Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it rained they played squash or swam in the indoor pool . |
| 2 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 3 | For in one follow-up meeting after another , in Belgrade and Madrid and finally Vienna , the human rights standards laid down at Helsinki were refined and tightened , while Romanian internal policies either stood still or moved in the other direction , that is to say downhill . |
| 4 | Any interesting or amusing incidents , photographed or recounted in a short article will be welcome . |
| 5 | as if this were n't enough , we bounced on oversized ball , wielded staves for posture , learnt national dances and songs , explored the mediaeval charms of Coburg and neighbouring Bamberg or wallowed in the thermal baths of Rodach — and of course consumed enormous and excellent meals at the college , supplemented with German cakes in the town ( not to mention German wine … — . |
| 6 | In some cemeteries an annual or regular service is held to which all the families and friends of people who have been buried or cremated in the last year are invited . |
| 7 | 4.2.2 Is a move advisable now or reconsidered in the near future ? |
| 8 | The war seemed remote as she and John wandered through woods , scuffling their feet through crisp fallen leaves , or lay in the deep feather bed in the farmhouse bedroom . |
| 9 | Walter Brennan never gargled with methylated spirits , or wore the same ragged T-shirts for months on end , or slept in a cardboard cocoon in a condemned house , or bothered young women on the subway . |
| 10 | Clare had planned so often the details of her own wedding , so often pictured herself , radiant in a long , white dress with train , leaning on her father 's arm , advancing with a slow , fragile step down the aisle towards Mark , handsome and smiling in morning dress , while the organ pealed and the candles and flowers blazed , and the guests beamed and whispered in the crowded pews — that she felt a surge of pity for the girl who would have nothing to remember but this sordid little ceremony . |
| 11 | All that is most sensible and clearheaded in the Catholic church will meet in Rome on May 17 to celebrate the beatification of Mgr Josemaria Escriva ( 1902–1975 ) who founded Opus Dei , the unecstatic religious movement which may yet save Christianity from the sex therapists . |
| 12 | These deposits are then borrowed and lent in the usual way . |
| 13 | He touched her arm , beckoning her down to his glittering eyes , and asked in a rattled whisper , ‘ Miz Boss Lady , you like see Joy 's cock ? ’ and was nearly knocked over by her abrupt straightening . |
| 14 | But almost immediately , she resumed her composure and asked in a steady voice : ‘ Will you come up and see him ? ’ |
| 15 | Champagne was already on ice , and best crystal glasses shimmered and winked in the fading sunlight . |
| 16 | The industrial machine that we have followed so far has been the philosophies of the Enlightenment embodied and incarnated in the economic mode of capitalism . |
| 17 | Swifts jinked and swooped in the enclosed space with the grace of dolphins . |
| 18 | The bones were mixed with sediment and tumbled in a rotary tumbler in three stages . |
| 19 | Eileen remembers Selina as a bubbly girl who helped to scrub the floors of the tourist office , made her own clothes and lived in a small cottage . |
| 20 | Ackroyd enjoyed a quiet bachelor life and lived in a small house by the crossing . |
| 21 | When I was a pine and lived in a cold climate |
| 22 | Funny because he was forty and not very clever and lived in an English suburb called Wimbledon . |
| 23 | He had no financial reserves , and lived in an unfashionable part of London . |
| 24 | Outside , the bright lights and multicoloured signs blinked and gleamed in the cold darkness . |
| 25 | It dipped and fluttered in the chilly air , its wings drab and flaky . |
| 26 | He looked a dangerous striker and got in a good header which I think you got to the right and got your hand to ? |
| 27 | One of the boys in question leaned forward and drawled in an upper-hive accent , ‘ Shame , having to hack off one 's pinkie to say sorry to one 's boss for a blunder . |
| 28 | Despite the ominous row of trespassing hatchbacks , we saw nobody on the ridge at all , and luxuriated in the surprising solitude that one should n't expect so near a town like Fort William , which grows more like a Highland Gorbals every day . |
| 29 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled depths of the ocean . |
| 30 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |