Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was followed by a growing uneasiness as Helen 's time drew near and a sensation , despite my physical condition , of being drained and miserable . |
| 2 | The piping stopped abruptly and a horse neighed . |
| 3 | Oh , Lord , my heart beat quicker and a sudden sweat drenched my body . |
| 4 | The rain came suddenly and a hot wind , as if someone had opened a furnace door , hurled it against the car . |
| 5 | He signalled imperiously and a porter seemed to materialise from nowhere to take the two cases , and that left Alain free to deal with Jenna . |
| 6 | One hostile dark eyebrow lifted briefly and a pair of diamond-hard eyes swept quickly over her , seeming to assess in the flicker of an eyelid the stylish dark red outfit she was wearing . |
| 7 | He always said … 'She gulped again and a tear trickled through the make-up . |
| 8 | Throwing back the covers she was about to get out of bed , when the far wall suddenly exploded inwards and a broiling mass of water burst into the room . |
| 9 | All of a sudden the far wall exploded inwards and a broiling mass of water burst into the room . |
| 10 | The door opened suddenly and a furious Algernon emerged to find James leaning over the stair rail listening quietly . |
| 11 | With dangerous sacrifices threatening , and black knights cantering around his king , Karpov looked in trouble , but he defended accurately and a draw was agreed at move 33 . |
| 12 | As they reached the top the door opened magically and a beaming , plump-faced woman was waiting to greet them . |
| 13 | The door opened again and a different guard came in . |
| 14 | A bedroom door opened upstairs and a face appeared over the banister . |
| 15 | Needs the cross now and he supplies it towards Collimore touched away and a shot by Phillips took a deflection off Lewis for a corner . |
| 16 | A second rock followed immediately and a wide , jagged crack appeared in the wall . |
| 17 | His brother vanished upstairs and a door , seldom locked , opened and closed noisily . |
| 18 | Mr Shaw was believed to have been waiting to collect fishbait near the shores of Belfast Lough at Quay Road , Newtownabbey as he did daily when a car pulled alongside and a gunman opened fire at point-blank range . |
| 19 | I called again and a panic came over me . |
| 20 | The doorbell rang again and a couple came in , followed at intervals by two more separate people . |
| 21 | In the spring of 1938 the old doctor who had attended her died suddenly and a young man took over the practice . |
| 22 | He looked away and a dark flush spread through his face , making him look suddenly very vulnerable . |
| 23 | as if in confirmation of that fact , the pressure of the foam encasing his head eased slightly and a display readout began to project data onto a hitherto invisible screen in front of his eyes . |
| 24 | Local trade grew perceptibly and a thin stratum of relatively well-off artisans and merchants began to emerge . |
| 25 | They grew a new ‘ ear ’ on her stomach with grafts taken from her thighs ; the scab on the superficially burnt left side of her face lifted off almost in one piece , leaving behind the flawless pink skin of a teenager ; but even after a year in hospital and scores of painful grafts , the right side of her face was hideously scarred , her hair and eyebrows never grew again and a plastic plate fitted over her carbonized skull prevented her from wearing a wig . |
| 26 | Some of the 37,000 guests among investors , financial analysts and Disney employees found themselves temporarily stranded on Big Thunder Mountain as the power failed twice and a traffic jam caused by too many trains on the track meant the ride had to be reprogrammed . |
| 27 | Our first steps off the Spyway road took us through green and pleasant farmland where playful sheep frolicked alongside and a lone tractor droningly went about its work . |
| 28 | There was an angry moan as she did so and a pain in her chest , which made her wonder whether the moan had not been her own . |
| 29 | Ninety-seven per cent of those qualified to vote did so and a new democratic constitution was adopted by unanimous vote . |
| 30 | The police reacted swiftly and a man who broke through their cordon was brought down by a rugby tackle and arrested . |