Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the dashboard in front of him the radio crackled and he picked it up . |
| 2 | Marian leaned over the parapet ; the rain , which still streamed down , was forgotten as she watched him rapidly disappear . |
| 3 | Blanche drove on and three hours later she was safe in Dornaway Castle , where she seemed so shaken that they put her straight to bed . |
| 4 | ‘ Why have I always felt that I knew you before ? ’ |
| 5 | So they pick up full speed and run for cover — and your net should be carefully positioned so they hit it just before reaching safety . |
| 6 | In a society where we spend so much money , time and effort in trying to attain immortality , by constantly eradicating the diseases from which a human being can die , it may be said that we find it more and more difficult to face mortality either in ourselves or in those close to us . |
| 7 | She was being strangled and I pulled him off . |
| 8 | Everyone says how well I 've done and nobody teases me now . |
| 9 | He had dark eyes , thickly lashed and they regarded her steadily almost as if he knew her . |
| 10 | Get it done cos they send you off at ten . |
| 11 | He said it was clear to him you were pining away , and that you could only be saved if I took you away and made love to you for the rest of our lives . ’ |
| 12 | Maggie quietly told him all that Ana had said and he heard her through in silence . |
| 13 | It was something that Harriet had particularly noticed and which made her both angry yet hopeful : angry that her daughter could not or would not always behave in such a way and hopeful that perhaps some day Liza would come to her senses and throw off the mask of invalidism behind which Harriet felt sure she was hiding . |
| 14 | He would not be prepared when she asked him why he had sent two men to beat up a pathetic hotel clerk and frighten a vulnerable old woman . |
| 15 | Ripe Oregon strawberries are especially selected as we feel it best compliments the rich cream flavour of Häagen-Dazs . |
| 16 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 17 | The Bloods/Crips programme is so infinitely the best scheme for recovering LA thus far offered that I append it here in its vivacious entirety . |
| 18 | This old fella had died and she took us there to choose what we wanted which was horrible . |
| 19 | There 's no reason for the door to stay shut for good over that flying incident , but it will only be opened if he wants it enough . ’ |
| 20 | What we 've got if you write them out separately |
| 21 | But , the heavens opened as it seems they only can when the British take to the outdoors in mid-summer . |
| 22 | cos a man called and I caught him instead . |
| 23 | BRC was contacted and we found them somewhere to live and someone from their own country to look after them . |
| 24 | The wooden fingers of his false left hand were bent and damaged and he turned it slowly under the light . |
| 25 | This time it was his eyes that were narrowed as he watched her as closely as any cat after a mouse . |
| 26 | In the ancient world , the processes of human procreation were not understood as we understand them today . |
| 27 | One of their most useful features was the thick layer of pure white fat with which they were coated when you took it out of the tin there was this layer of fat round the edge . |
| 28 | I should have been consulted because it affected me too , she thought , and wrote a terse letter to him . |
| 29 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 30 | IT IS ONLY MORE ECONOMICAL TO BUY OIL PAINT IN TINS PROVIDED THAT YOU USE IT QUICKLY . |