Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1858 the Poor Law Board relented and the Workhouse Visiting Society , with Twining as honorary secretary , was set up , affiliated to the NAPSS . |
| 2 | I lose the damn thing and crash blindly against him , but he skips backwards , and as the mist clears I see his eyes blazing and his teeth bared and the gun is comfortable in his hand and pointing at my chest . |
| 3 | As the owl hooted and the night train called , Erika was already slipping into the state where the real world fades and the dreamworld begins , thinking of Fritz and that last , subtle touch of two hands . |
| 4 | As the months passed and the court moved — and Anne and Joan with it — from Westminster to Greenwich , from Greenwich to Sheen and then back again to Westminster , and as Joan practised and adopted the ways of the nobility , the close resemblance between herself and Anne became more pronounced . |
| 5 | But as the months passed and the winter fogs thickened , Mr Punch discovered a new source of inspiration in the hoop-skirt , transforming it into an ingenious anti-garotte device whereby its flowing dimensions could prevent a street robber from approaching his intended victim . |
| 6 | The investment failed and the money vanished . |
| 7 | Donlevy fainted and the crew applauded . |
| 8 | The attempt failed and no warning was given to the public . |
| 9 | Thus the action failed and the case is authority for the immunity of an assignee of an equitable lease from liability on the covenants . |
| 10 | The experiment failed and the NIRC was abolished in 1974 . |
| 11 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 12 | Last night at Elm Park the rain lashed down , the wind howled and the quest was for memories and money — and a goal . |
| 13 | The wind howled and the surf continued to roar as we explored beyond our landing point ; we visited a ruined chapel . |
| 14 | But in the cabin , the parcel tray bounced and the instrument binnacle zizzed . |
| 15 | Mr W D Irwin presided and the hymn : ‘ We give immortal praise — ‘ , used at the opening of the 1891 church was again sung . |
| 16 | The positive cDNA clones were plaque purified and the Bluescript phagemid ( Stratagene ) rescued . |
| 17 | Rory fell onto his side ; the shotgun roared and the rear of the couch blew open in a dusty horsehair explosion . |
| 18 | The Basildon result seemed but a straw to clutch at . |
| 19 | Then the mouth opened and the father 's skull smiled . |
| 20 | The passenger-door of the Volvo opened and a man got out . |
| 21 | The ambulance arrived and the paramedics leapt out and ran up . |
| 22 | Just as he was leaving , Paisley arrived and the meeting broke into cheering and clapping . |
| 23 | Before long the disruptions began and the meeting became a scene of struggle and abuse . |
| 24 | The price of cobalt soared and the industry suddenly had to pour much time and money into redesigning the magnets in loudspeakers , using less expensive ceramic materials instead of cobalt . |
| 25 | Fortunately no-one was seriously hurt and no inmate escaped but the risk of trouble had been spotted and little done to stop it . |
| 26 | In the event , not one of these possibilities for the immediate future materialized and a period of balance emerged in which the three principal southumbrian kingdoms — Kent , Wessex and Mercia — existed in a state of political equilibrium and the stability of Kent and Wessex was in striking contrast to the volatility of the recent past . |
| 27 | Wrapped inside it , Gabriel listened to yet more rain drumming on the stage overhead , and knew he was safe , however hard the wind blew or the rain rained . |
| 28 | ‘ After a while the sun beat down upon the mist and filled it with light and warmth , and a wind blew and the mist thinned and cleared . |
| 29 | Even the animals had gone — the cows and chickens to Jimale : the horses wherever they chose to wander , where the wind blew and the grass was thick : the sheep to their mountain grazing-land to the north of the village , facing Jimale across the valley . |
| 30 | A cold wind blew and the rain fell in torrents as the Spanish launched their first IACC boat . |