Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snow rarely fell hard during the day . |
| 2 | Tory asked suddenly , pointing down to a strand of granite pebbles by which a group of bright blooms apparently sprouted out of the shallow water . |
| 3 | Jimmy had dropped to his knees and was hugging his head , when the noise suddenly snapped out of existence . |
| 4 | Instead of being nearly square uprights they have a length almost half as great again as their height , which is nearly two feet ; the triglyphs apparently stood only over the columns , not between . |
| 5 | At first he refused to answer , then realised that no assassin would make such a noise so went down to the door and called out : ‘ Who 's there ? ’ |
| 6 | Dotty 's slender stock of patience suddenly ran out at her heels like gunpowder . |
| 7 | Her lovely fingers merely hovered momentarily over the sugar-coated biscuits arranged on a china plate with tiny pink flowers and a fluted edge . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , God , no , ’ she husked pitifully as Fernando suddenly drew back from her and with eyes hooded with desire and power he let himself sink below the water . |
| 9 | The car hummed nearer as the view to one side slowly opened up through the dunes to reveal the shining beach and blue-green ocean . |
| 10 | When the shepherd eventually limped back to civilisation and told his unlikely tale , the authorities located the treasure and imprisoned the shepherd for theft . |
| 11 | While Hazel gazed , the wind slowly veered round into the west , as Cowslip had said it would , and brought the rain driving into the mouth of the hole . |
| 12 | Dennis eventually went off with her on his own , leaving Nicholson to return alone to their hotel where he acted out some kind of ritual guarding of their rooms , ready to forewarn of an attack he was expecting at any moment from some non-existent Red Indians . |
| 13 | Ramsey presumably leant out for a breath of air . |
| 14 | The roof literally fell in on Montreal last year when storms ripped off their Olympic Stadium 's retractable top , and they finished last in the National League East . |
| 15 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 16 | She says the car suddenly came up with it 's headlights blaring and it was doing eighty five miles an hour . |
| 17 | As he reached the bottom the whole boat suddenly heaved away from him , so that the washboard at the top rolled out of sight and a quite new reach of sky appeared . |
| 18 | A rough-looking youth with long black unkempt hair and with a muffler about his neck suddenly sprang out from a disused barn standing close beside the lane . |
| 19 | More directly , the cause of integration has been served by the formal incorporation of subjects hitherto taught separately into new programmes with new names . |
| 20 | As his grip on her loosened , she took a step back , and it was as though a cold wind suddenly whistled all around her . |
| 21 | The words just came out without my planning to say them . |
| 22 | Headhunters were also forced to become more professional because of the growing complexity of the corporate problems they were called upon to solve ; those consultants who were less sophisticated than their clients soon went out of business . |
| 23 | SO BBC1 's Trainer finally galloped off into the knacker 's yard , leaving nothing but the memory of bad acting and even worse scripts in its wake . |
| 24 | His digital watch and the clock on the wall of the administration building foyer tallied at three precisely when Manville finally strolled in through the glass swing doors and headed for the reception desk . |
| 25 | GRAEME HICK finally lived up to his tag as England 's saviour yesterday — and the one-time ‘ Boy Wonder ’ could not have chosen a better moment to put his wretched Test record behind him . |
| 26 | One of the legs just went down as if it was on quicksand . ’ |
| 27 | Rationalised , it meant that Neil already knew enough about Ewen Mackay 's record , and of course he was already on the watch for any more suspicious moves . |
| 28 | Erm and the car just broke up in half and that was , that had been er welded but like the police are saying as well as soon as they sort of get wise to what they 're doing and they find a way to er you know , get on to them , they devised something else . |
| 29 | Shelby soon went back to racing , of course , and more than any other American driver up to that date he bridged the gap between European and American racing cultures . |
| 30 | Leith finally drifted off into a troubled sleep , wondering if there was any greater torment than that of loving unwisely . |