Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kelly and Sear predict that things should actually improve over the next few months as the northern hemisphere continues to recover from the 0.5°C cooling that actually happened in June last year . |
| 2 | Strictly speaking , these refer to dreams where you are pursued and eventually overpowered by a monster . |
| 3 | Seven people , including a mother and child , were killed when a lorry and van crashed and then ploughed into a Post Office today . |
| 4 | Many of the new firms that started were under-capitalised and so went to the wall , but the net number has increased by many hundreds of thousands since 1979 . |
| 5 | He rose and then dived within her , starting slowly as if to the beating of a primal drum . |
| 6 | Of course , outside Japan , elsewhere in the world , there may also turn out to be losers on a wider scale , those trapped and organizationally outflanked in modernist organization forms as the leading edge turns ever more postmodern . |
| 7 | Later research suggests , however , that they were more common in the North-west than had been supposed and probably began in the South-east in the late sixteenth century , and has cast doubt on the validity of seeking to impose too rigid a geographical pattern on food rioting from the recorded incidence . |
| 8 | Adams stated that whilst he and Moore were at supper he saw an unusual light in the direction of the Body Shop but , instead of going to see what it was and turning on the water from the hydrants to endeavour to arrest the progress of the flames , he caused the alarm bell to be rung and then ran to the gate to admit the Fire Brigade . |
| 9 | She stopped and simply looked at him , smiling broadly . |
| 10 | The poles slid glistening in and out of the water as the craft approached and then beached with a bump . |
| 11 | The real truth about Crabb will never be known , but it does seem that he was expected by the Russians , was caught and either died of a heart attack or was murdered , and his body dumped over the side as the ships left Portsmouth . |
| 12 | He stood there slightly bent for a few seconds holding his stomach and then he staggered and slowly fell to the floor . |
| 13 | That breakdown was reflected in the art of the period , which — as in Francis Bacon — partly protested and partly rejoiced in the excremental quality of the age . |
| 14 | These are now privately owned and only emerged from obscurity again a few years ago : sphinxes and winged sirens , the heads of minotaurs and owls , personifications of night and masks with invisible eyes . |
| 15 | Mr Nasta has used two large rooms to display the works , all of them privately owned and personally lent for the occasion . |
| 16 | The Shandwick Stone , a pictish symbol stone found in a field near Tain , had been badly cracked and crudely rejoined with heavy metal bands by a local blacksmith about a century ago . |
| 17 | He was eventually banned by the Italian Football Association for failing a drugs test and virtually had to be smuggled out of the country in the dark of night to save his sanity back home in Argentina . |
| 18 | He 'd had nightmares featuring William before and they invariably ended with someone being beheaded or disembowelled or otherwise mangled in an unpleasant manner . |
| 19 | Two cloaked figures turned and slowly walked towards them . |
| 20 | Look what was threatened and nearly happened to the Falls Women 's Centre , and it 's not just in West Belfast ; the same is happening in Ballybeen on the other side of the city . |
| 21 | ‘ I worked through the night to get them done and then drove to her house where she was confined to bed , ’ says Alan . |
| 22 | And you 've all seen and probably participated in the scene where a sequence of such meeting is brought to its climax by one partner coming right out with the movie cliché ‘ We ca n't go on meeting like this ’ or less effectively ‘ Long time no see ! ’ |
| 23 | The one , two , three and then four hours since she had acknowledged her love for Ven alternately dawdled and then flew for Fabia . |
| 24 | She dozed and woke , dozed and woke and finally fell into a light sleep , only stirring when she heard a voice addressing her from what seemed like a million miles away . |
| 25 | When he slid his fingers across the spring of gold curls , parting the intimate secret of her , finding the hard nub of her womanhood before slipping below to the hot , molten tightness at her centre , she tensed and then capitulated in a flood of aching heat , and she heard herself say his name , moan his name again and again . |
| 26 | Add the koftas and fry until lightly browned on all sides . |
| 27 | The reality was that the growth of corporate enterprise shattered three of the assumptions which underlay the belief that economic power of the company was regulated and thereby legitimated by the competitive market . |
| 28 | Extra guests could be put up in the boat itself , which had a permanent skipper and crew , enabling Bernard and Laura to escape at short notice to idyllic , inaccessible Mediterranean islands , Laura still could not swim and often groaned with seasickness . |
| 29 | Apparently innocent of the opportunity which had been presented to them , they met in the Ravenhill Church and talked about what they should do and even hesitated about talking to the journalists waiting outside . |
| 30 | NICOSIA ( Reuter ) — Three men were beheaded and then crucified in public in the Saudi capital , Riyadh . |