Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She thrust back the chair and strode round the desk , her two hands locked together and her whole figure trembling with rage .
2 Aid will only be available if they pay larger amounts than those demanded now and which present experience shows they can not afford .
3 Through her travels and writings ( which included a novel , Maid of Sark , in 1939 and an autobiography , Dame of Sark , 1961 ) and television , radio , and press interviews , her island became known worldwide and its subsequent prosperity owed much to her determination to retain its unique laws and peaceful atmosphere , unpolluted by cars or aeroplanes .
4 The chicken 's skin was crisped nicely and its yellow flesh was succulent .
5 Where the works of antiquity had once been treated as timeless products of a homogeneous whole , ancient civilization was now conceived historically and its divers elements related to their precise period .
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