Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Vasilissa brought in the skull . |
| 2 | Slowly bending down Sarah picked up the saucepan . |
| 3 | So HM spun out the agony . |
| 4 | So Léonie plucked out the letter Thérèse indicated , the one that she had replaced on top . |
| 5 | So Sarazen took on a young caddie , who , it transpired , seemed to do all the things that even the caddies of today would not dream of doing , like pulling the clubs without consultation with Sarazen , and then , if the club did not work , telling Sarazen he had just hit a bad shot — it was not his club selection at fault . |
| 6 | So Alexander worked out a technique that not only freed him from the tendency which was at the bottom of his vocal troubles , but also cured his asthma from which he had suffered from birth . |
| 7 | Two of the girls were terrified and looked pleadingly at the third ; so Roksanda gathered up the precious stones . |
| 8 | In that way the Court was perhaps the institution which most successfully stamped its imprint upon the ECSC , and in so doing built up a body of case law , an authority , and legitimacy that could serve as foundations for the future . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , most people who made history , or who instructed juniors how to make it , were concerned with a restricted genealogical range ; so knowledge took on a segmentary , even oppositional character : genealogies varied , for instance , from reciter to reciter and from audience to audience . |
| 10 | So Steve took on the singer 's mantle , but how does he think he 's shaping up as a guitarist/vocalist ? |
| 11 | Downstairs Clytemnestra let out a howl that ended in a series of urgent yelps . |
| 12 | Quickly Sophie picked up the telephone and rang through to the house . |
| 13 | Still Isobel gave back no warmth at all , and Marjorie felt a stab of irritation . |
| 14 | Quickly Folly summed up the story of her meeting with Luke . |
| 15 | The more North built up the contras in secret , the more he fretted that liberal Democrats in Congress ( ’ Kerry , Barnes , Harkin et al . ’ ) |
| 16 | A week later Ian filled in a peg board starting at the outside ( perimeter ) and making smaller and smaller squares . |
| 17 | A few minutes later Romany pulled off the tarpaulin . |
| 18 | A little while later Matilda bought up a bucket of steaming water . |
| 19 | A few days later Jack took over the shift at 9pm . |
| 20 | Three years later Petrucci brought out a collection of Musica di messer Bernardo pisano sopra le Canzone del petrarcha ( Fossom-brone , 1520 ) . |
| 21 | Now Will brought down an old van er which was scrap it was quite a good body I mean and he painted on it , We 're still open , er something like , Despite Transport and General Workers ' Union picketing we are fully open , and he plonked this van with no wheels on it just the body right th in the entrance of th on his own ground naturally er right in front of the pickets which was like you know tantalizing . |
| 22 | Hurriedly now Agnes weighed out the tiger nuts ; then , glancing at the newcomers again , she smiled and said , ‘ I 'm sorry . ’ |
| 23 | The fences were put in order , the fields were top-dressed with necessary fertilisers , and even Matt took on a new lease of life . |
| 24 | Pillars , walls , ceiling , all have been painted , and there are even paintings hung on the upper walls of the nave above the arches , which are a mixture of round and pointed . |
| 25 | Here Gehlen collected up the thousands of spools of microfilm that over the years he had painstakingly amassed as part of his record of Russian intelligence . |
| 26 | Here Owen set about the great social reforms which made New Lanark for a time one of the most celebrated places in Britain ; he improved both the working and the living conditions of those on whose labour he depended , and proposed a system of universal co-operation in industry in place of the misery of exploitation . |
| 27 | Because he also enjoys snooker , four years ago Marjorie took up the game , so that they could play together . |
| 28 | Today police showed off a new mini camera which can be moved from site to site . |
| 29 | Increasingly publicans took over the task of providing facilities for sports which had once been enjoyed on the streets or on common land . |
| 30 | Here Müncheberg shot down a Hawker Fury biplane of the Royal Yugoslav Air Force , destroying a second on the ground five minutes later . |