Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the pain became more intense there was less and less space for his mind to wander over things , undone things that suddenly took on ridiculous and unrealistic urgency , but his thoughts were still churning with his innards and he could not keep out stray fragments of enacted scenes any more than he could stop the brilliant black fish from swimming in the air past his eyes . |
| 2 | In the next over , Derek Pringle claimed his third wicket of the innings when Paul Johnson went to cut a delivery that again got up higher than anticipated . |
| 3 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 4 | They told me they were on holiday today and shyly peeped round great blocks of stone as I climbed on to the hitching post of the sun , the most sacred place in the temple . |
| 5 | And that 's what causes tragic failures like Matthew Smith and Augustus John — they 've done the Paris rat and they live ever after in the shadow of Gauguin and Matisse or whoever it may be — just as G.P. says he once lived under the shadow of Braque and suddenly woke up one morning to realize that all he had done for five years was a lie , because it was based on Braque 's eyes and sensibilities and not his own . |
| 6 | Well , I did n't need much prompting , and soon babbled out all my dreams and dreads . |
| 7 | Frau Nordern frowned as Marx stubbed out his cigar and promptly took out another one . |
| 8 | He opened a shop there in 1961 and gradually took over other premises , including the castle , until today he has an annual turnover of more than a million second-hand books . |
| 9 | He scrapped segregated dining rooms and often walked around barefoot and in casual dress , eating bananas . |
| 10 | And boldly glanced around this way and that ; |
| 11 | He was in hospital in Holland and simply took off one night . |
| 12 | Maud took out the pillow , untucked the counterpane , folded away three fine woollen blankets and a crocheted shawl , and then lifted out one feather mattress and another , and a straw palliasse . |
| 13 | And then looked up some more . |
| 14 | He came forward , searching out safe lodgements for his feet , and then looked up thick spectacles . ’ |
| 15 | Well er he saw the Professor and paid the fee and that and then came back six =clock at night , he came into the shop . |
| 16 | They were beaten 3-2 in the semi-finals by the eventual winners , Berlin , and then went down 4-2 against the English side , Hightown , in the play-off for the bronze medals . |
| 17 | ‘ … your mother 's mother called the office this morning and then drove up all the way from Virginia to see me . |
| 18 | InfoWorld 's hit-or-miss gossip column , written under the Robert X Cringely nom de plume , claims Novell Inc agreed to be bought by Microsoft Corp and then backed out three months ago . |
| 19 | From Ggantija we ambled down to Ramla Bay and then climbed up old terraces . |
| 20 | Calling on an acting ability not required since her childhood , she covered her patient with a cotton blanket and then hitched up each leg in turn and strapped them into the lithotomy stirrups , thus trapping the hoaxer until the joke had run its course . |
| 21 | Needing the number of a firm in Guildford ( Candy Domestic Equipment ) I had waited for five minutes for the inquiry people to answer , been cut short when I attempted to give the address and then handed out two minutes of silence . |
| 22 | Straight after that they played the main Mill team , and again turned out comfortable winners with a 3 . |
| 23 | But eventually went down 67-65 . |