Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or initiated a few , ’ Piers said smoothly , looking at André . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Beckett 's characters ‘ begin and end their fictional journey at the same place , in the same condition , and without having learned , discovered , or acquired the least knowledge about themselves and the world in which they exist ’ ( Federman 1965 : 4 ) . |
| 4 | It was recognized that a work of literature might employ , to advance its serious purpose , a style which resembled , or had the same effect as , the pornographer 's : here the jury was to be assisted to draw the line by experts who would offer judgments as to the degree of importance the article represented in its particular discipline . |
| 5 | Asked if moral values have got better , worse , or stayed the same over the past ten years , 82 per cent said they had got worse . |
| 6 | Nor paid the least Attention to its Charms ; |
| 7 | I went back to the Maggot 's foul house , where he kept his killer dog and astonishing collection of guns , and we sat on his makeshift verandah that overlooked a noxious and polluted creek and shared a few whiskies as he told me an incredibly tedious tale of how he had once sacked the quarterback of the San Francisco Sugar Plums . |
| 8 | Later , as night crept over the Rorim , they met in Riven 's room and shared a few pitchers of ale . |
| 9 | The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures . |
| 10 | ‘ Yet we still sat next to each other on the team bus and shared the same room . |
| 11 | Both were just 23 and shared the same love of horses , fresh air and country pursuits . |
| 12 | If there were two designers they must have worked closely together and shared the same highly trained team of executants . |
| 13 | This culture , and all subsequent isolates that were identified as the epidemic strain , belonged to bacteriocin type S3/P0:ribotype A , and shared the same CHEF profile . |
| 14 | During World War Two , the fortunes of those two bomber squadrons bore striking similarities , they arrived together in 1943 and left together in 1945 , they flew the same type of aircraft , Halifax and Lancaster , and shared the same operations . |
| 15 | Grate nutmeg over this , and strew a few coloured comfits on the top if you choose . " |
| 16 | She pushed it back , and wiped the same hand on the Beatrix Potter apron Harriet had made her for her birthday . |
| 17 | He was a true friend to sport , and cared no less for the manner in which success was achieved than for success itself . |
| 18 | It was published shortly after I 'd taken part in a time and motion study during which I 'd spoken to the man with the clip-board and asked a few pertinent questions . |
| 19 | ‘ I think there 's a good chance that Billy was brought in here and asked a few nasty questions by his fellow liberationists and maybe there was a fight . ’ |
| 20 | I too got to the Imperial by 12:30 and asked a few likely candindates were Tim ! |
| 21 | Kathleen answered the phone , listened for a minute and asked a few questions , and then cradled the receiver with a groan . |
| 22 | I was just going out when a man came in and asked the same question . |
| 23 | I mean , those are just we just went out and chucked a few fucking trees down . |
| 24 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
| 25 | A few other Labour MPs lent support , and met the same fate — notably Charles Trevelyan , last of the surviving ex-UDC Liberals in the Parliamentary Party . |
| 26 | Now already , she 's had a wash and a workout or two , and read a few books and she thinks she 's the answer to an Amazon 's prayer . |
| 27 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 28 | We stopped at one of his regular suppliers and cadged a few sea urchins , then the knife to eat them with . |
| 29 | Check to see that they are secure and looped the same way on each half of the kite . |
| 30 | You get the impression Ruud and Marco could have taken their skills anywhere in the world , found success and made a few friends as well . |