Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The broker , Tunc Kunter , brought to London Mr Yenici and Mrs Hatice Anutkan , who had been left to raise two children alone and wanted money to meet debts . |
| 2 | A fortnight before leaving home my sister had developed mumps , but with the advice of two Harley Street specialists to proceed , I did so and hoped fate would be kind . |
| 3 | Most importantly , you have to get in touch once more with the very real couple who laughed together and made love just for the pleasure of it . |
| 4 | Another April shower swept over them , a heavy one , so that they all gathered together and took shelter under an old yew . |
| 5 | A short passage linked the two rooms together and gave access to the stairway . |
| 6 | Others have suggested that there were paired nasal sacs opening separately and gave rise to the theory that heterostracans might be ancestral to jawed vertebrates ( Fig. 2 B , b ) . |
| 7 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 8 | Then she turned away and came face to face with Emelda Linley . |
| 9 | Jay was now In Love with the impossible Lucy , Dionne went for butch crewcut teenagers , and they hugged each other 's hurt away and made love like some people offer Kleenex and brandy in times of stress . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | I went away and made tea and then sent off my Christmas cards , only not James 's . |
| 12 | Then they followed the irons and boarded , axes in their hands , and more spears , and killed every man on the ships , but for two that broke away and fled north . |
| 13 | This acceleration of growth lessened the pressure on those areas of vulnerability discussed above and turned attention inwards towards the development and coordination of the discipline itself . |
| 14 | Ruari had recovered well , but tired easily and needed help even more than before . |
| 15 | As we saw in the previous section , there is an understandable reluctance to move against firms that have competed successfully and won market share . |
| 16 | Cut adrift from nearly everything I 'd known before seven , I turned inward and invented story games to play alone . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd fallen quite badly and had disc problems with my back . |
| 18 | ‘ Design ’ meant the arrangement of the various parts of a developed area — buildings , roads , spaces — so that they functioned properly , could be built economically and gave pleasure to look at and be in . |
| 19 | This system worked very slowly and made secrecy virtually impossible : it has been calculated that in all some 2,000 people may have had some influence , direct or indirect , on the functioning of this cumbersome machinery . |
| 20 | Last month , following Johnson 's admissions at the inquiry that he had taken drugs and not failed drug tests , the IAAF decided to strip him of his world records retrospectively and enacted legislation which would punish any athlete who passed a drug test but subsequently admitted he was an offender . |
| 21 | He leaned forward quickly and took hold of a white bishop icing it one black square further forward , in front of his king . |
| 22 | Slorne became still and took stance on the branch quite near to Creggan , her head tilting to one site , ant her eyes staring out at the sunset sky that rose massively now over the Cages . |
| 23 | FOREIGN & Colonial Pacific Investment Trust reduced its equity weighting in Japan to its lowest level ever and avoided bank and insurance shares altogether to lift its net assets from £188m to £238m last year . |
| 24 | It boiled , and she laid the knitting aside and made tea . |
| 25 | He threw the towel aside and caught hold of Sara 's hand . |
| 26 | He listened to me more and had time to answer my questions . |
| 27 | On top of that , there 's the mystery surrounding the fact that the black folks mostly turned their guitars upright and played slide in the Spanish position rather than in a lap style — typically inventive , of course , but quite a departure all the same . |
| 28 | A woman tricked her way into an elderly woman 's Co Down home and stole money , police revealed today . |
| 29 | A MOTHER-of-four has been left devastated by burglars who ransacked her home and stole Christmas presents she had bought for her children . |
| 30 | It passed almost at once and gave place to what seemed to him an assumed and slightly truculent indifference , but it had been there . |