Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [coord] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end he settled for a rather Egyptian standing pose with both their faces front on and the bodies half turned away . |
| 2 | We 've only rumours to go on but the sums he 's paid out are astronomical . ’ |
| 3 | The night was drawing in and the kids had gone home and the tunnel under the embankment was deep in shadow . |
| 4 | However , it was reported the following day that talks had broken down and the employers had stopped the strikers ' wages . |
| 5 | Sometimes a car slows down and the inhabitants wave and shout what they believe to be a significant phrase . |
| 6 | Essentially the profit-making activity was carried on and the services , being the provision of the rights , were rendered outside Hong Kong . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal were in error in stating [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 , 218 , that ‘ the profit-making activity was carried on and the services , being the provision of the rights , were rendered outside Hong Kong . ’ |
| 8 | They stood uncomfortably outside Margate crematorium while the coffin was carried in and the relations eased themselves sadly out of hired limos . |
| 9 | Dominating this is a faithful Cessna F.150F which can be sat in and the controls worked . |
| 10 | When an intruder approaches , the parents fly off and the chicks sit tight no matter how close it comes . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't be a footballer when you grow up and the girls ’ toilets are messy . ’ |
| 12 | Her face became blue , the veins in her neck swelled up and the pupils of her eyes were huge . |
| 13 | If things go wrong inside a tin , gases build up and the contents swell and the whole thing explodes … |
| 14 | The improvements to estates should have been completed in five years when the HATs will be wound up and the houses disposed of to new landlords who could be the local council , a private individual or company , a housing association or a co-operative . |
| 15 | When we went out the sun had come out and the horses ' coats shone like black silk . |
| 16 | They now moved back , in sympathy with the Japanese surrender , they moved back and the nationalists took Shanghai and really controlled the whole of , of south China again so that the , the old landlord system had been re-established . |
| 17 | Many people believe that the condition of a horse 's coat depends on what you feed rather than how you groom , but whatever your views there is no doubt that as long as his feet are picked out and the parts where the tack touches are clean he will come to no harm . |
| 18 | We had to close the door to find out and the results have been phenomenal . |
| 19 | In some cases this involves experimental work to test particular theories of how certain processes were carried out and the ways that artefacts were constructed . |
| 20 | Only the doctor who attended the last illness is required to certify when someone dies in the hospital and a post mortem has been carried out and the results known to the doctor . |
| 21 | Accordingly , an investigation of the current state of the DIP market was carried out and the results presented to the client . |
| 22 | Night fell , the candle flames flickered out and the ghosts of the dead came back to their resting place ( or so the old wives say ) , somewhere sacred , a fitting protection against the assaults of the demons . |
| 23 | ‘ It would not be so bad , ’ Karlinsky continued to his now rapt audience , ‘ if there was nothing else to worry about but the hardships and difficulties I have described to you . |
| 24 | Nathan , anxious for a closer look , goes over and the animals go mad . |
| 25 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 26 | There was two bunches of keys both the same as each other with the house keys on and the keys to this place . |
| 27 | The travellers have moved on and the tourists are back . |
| 28 | The Speaker has to use his power of selection drastically , choosing about a quarter of the amendments put down but the discussions are extensive , the committee stage usually allowing some twenty hours of debate followed by a report stage and third reading . |
| 29 | The rain came down and the floods came , and the winds blew and struck the house , and it fell ; and great was the fall of it ! |
| 30 | the rain came down and the floods came up and the house on the rocks slid down , but the foolish man built his house upon the sand , the foolish man built his house upon the sand , the foolish man built his house upon the sand and the rain came tumbling down |