Example sentences of "[vb past] and the [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the crane strained and the barge listed over , the crowd eagerly peered , perhaps expecting something macabre , but soon dispersing when the smelly chunk of concrete emerged . |
| 2 | She winced and the colour shrank out of her cheeks and then reappeared in two hot spots high on her cheekbones . |
| 3 | I did the er there was a an ambulance came down the road in front of a bus you see , and a chap which was on the cor , side the road and he he went like this so I stopped and the ambulance came round and turned into this building site and I and while we were sitting there bang ! |
| 4 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 5 | Inside it , the king-cups bloomed and the brook whelmed up from its source . |
| 6 | Ruth sat silent on the stern thwart as the Drowned Forest receded and the boat went out over the glittering water , into emptiness . |
| 7 | The ambulance arrived and the paramedics leapt out and ran up . |
| 8 | He nodded and the bookie nodded back , his eyes everywhere as he scanned the other faces , looking for takers amid the din . |
| 9 | Another door opened and the caretaker looked out . |
| 10 | The door opened and the valance flicked up . |
| 11 | and er the second door on , you , it opened and the doctor came out and called for the next person to come in , she did n't look to be above forty year old |
| 12 | She shuddered and the nightmare came back . |
| 13 | Off we went and the sun shone out and the waves danced and sparkled and our spirits with the sport of the waters . |
| 14 | Joe laughed and the boy grinned back . |
| 15 | Then it eased and the sound dropped down the register . |
| 16 | This cleared and the submarine picked up their infra-red signals , taking them back aboard before continuing her patrol . |
| 17 | You ca n't , it must be since Paul did and the man turned up and to Yvonne , I 'm not going |
| 18 | He resisted and the assailant made off empty-handed on a large , blue and white Yamaha motorbike . |
| 19 | The Captain relaxed and the Substitute sat up again . |
| 20 | After that I married and the war broke out . |
| 21 | Then the twisty little mouth twitched and the twitch travelled up the cheeks , the eyebrows wriggled and the blue eyes danced like sunlit water . |
| 22 | Two wyverns fell on the same night and after the Emperor 's death the aerial attacks gradually subsided and the siege settled down into a protracted stalemate . |
| 23 | The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section . |
| 24 | But I can and said pull that fucking door closed and the knob came off in her fucking hand , she spun round |