Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed remarkably near : a flat blue sheet , crawling as in Hong Kong with the skeins of hidden currents , stippled and rippled by breezes , and turning brassy gold where it met the horizon on to which the sun was now setting fast . |
| 2 | Yes if erm two girls were in a toilet you were fined and they used to stop the money , oh yes two girls were fined it was a very strict there it was er quite as strict there as it was a H & T Hornes and erm you , you but you could have a drink there , but er at one time before they allowed a drink , a cup of tea , the men used to , someone to watch to see if , when we were working in the top shop cos we could see if anyone came up the , up the shop into , from the bottom shop into top shop then they put a can on erm on something to boil you see and er oh and we got a little sto coal stove to heat the shop , no central heating pipes or anything like that , and they put er someone you could see anyone coming up the , up the steps and er anyway there was someone , one of the bosses coming up so they erm whipped the can off , ran round the back of the bench wh where there were a lot of hand presses going and Mr walked straight he was only mad that off the can of boiling water |
| 3 | As his opponent re-checked his position , Hill whipped the ball out to Rob Andrew having brought himself that extra second of time . |
| 4 | I said , ‘ It 's a th-th-th- ’ and I whipped the 3-iron out of the bag . |
| 5 | His caddie whipped the flag out , but the ball slid four feet past . |
| 6 | In desperation he whipped the knife back to his good left hand and lunged forward with the blade extended before him . |
| 7 | I whipped the key out and turned to run through the Square only to find Shifty-Eyes standing blocking the pavement . |
| 8 | Robyn whipped the sauce around viciously in the pan and was frantically trying to think up some caustic reply , when Luke interjected smoothly , ‘ Robyn 's not an acquaintance , Melissa . ’ |
| 9 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 10 | He advanced to the wall-sized sheet of glass that divided the room down its centre . |
| 11 | Low stone walls divided the garden up into different segments , and these were marbled with moss and lichen in a dozen shades of gold and green , and often hidden completely under tumbling masses of roses , clematis and ivy . |
| 12 | In detail , the Council 's planning policy applies to the mainland of Orkney and divided the island up into different zones . |
| 13 | The predatory Ritchie chested the ball down and hammered a volley past Lukic . |
| 14 | The ball eluded Winterburn , and Ritchie , Oldham 's leading goalscorer , chested the ball down and crashed a fierce volley beyond Lukic . |
| 15 | The lanky Ormondroyd was proving to be a nuisance and when he chested the ball down to Thompson he was unlucky to see his shot flash wide . |
| 16 | It came in the 37th minute , when he cleverly chested the ball down , and from 28 yards unleashed a fearsome , left-foot volley which flew beyond Tony Coton . |
| 17 | Tony Cascarino had a close range effort blocked by Chris Woods after 21 minutes , but Chelsea finally drew level when Gavin Peacock chested the ball down for Lee to shoot past the England keeper . |
| 18 | Nicholls put him in after 51 minutes and he brilliantly chested the ball down before sweeping a shot past McKeown . |
| 19 | West 's cross was met by skipper Cornforth and he chested the ball down before shooting wide . |
| 20 | probably had n't paid that much , so these peo the ones that lent the money out , in really they er , and they really have suffered just , they probably thought that if we do n't lend them the money somebody else will and get the interest and they 'll grow bigger and much overtake us , you know , to , to take over our business , so er , so the |
| 21 | Mandy missed the catch , and flung the ball back rather crossly . |
| 22 | The harder he worked at it , the less success he seemed to be having ; his pain and frustration were combining to make him angry , and he flung the bottle down onto the bed . |
| 23 | He flung the guitar on to a chair , and bent down to pick Shelley up bodily instead , lifting her as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 24 | She drank , and he flung the glass down , standing back from her to see what she did . |
| 25 | Slamming her tools down on the bench with almost enough force to break them , she flung the carving back into its box , then aimed a kick at it . |
| 26 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 27 | The servant who passed the story on to the firefighters had been standing nearby taking in all that was being said until a glance from Meredith Putt through the partly open door sent her scuttling upstairs to complete her work , filled with apprehension by what she had just heard . |
| 28 | He shrugged and passed the newspaper back . |
| 29 | He inhaled once more and passed the chillim on . |
| 30 | He passed the memo on , as requested , but scribbled in the margin : ‘ Almost too absurd to comment on . |