Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's top twenty girls fought or flowed it out in the championships over the weekend … the big prize for them this season is a place at the Olympics … only two girls can go … the competition is made up of four disciplines rope … hoop … ball and clubs … |
| 2 | They read somewhat strangely , as if I had imagined the whole thing , or cooked it up for an April Fool joke . |
| 3 | He preferred to forget about those , or to pretend to himself that ‘ the real Marie ’ had not sent that bottle crashing into the wall by his head , or hunted him down in the darkness of the tunnels . |
| 4 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 5 | An ‘ undred years ago they would ‘ ave ‘ anged me on the spot or sent me off to Australia , so I ca n't complain . |
| 6 | Sometimes the violent power of the Spirit is seen in almost physical terms , as when the Spirit of the Lord entered into Ezekiel and set him on his feet , or lifted him up , or brought him out into the valley ( Ezek. 2:2 , 3:12 , 37:1 ) . |
| 7 | No detractor however imaginative or ingenious could find anything that would pain him or put him out of countenance . |
| 8 | But unless I talked out the issue with others , or wrote it up in my diary , it may be far from clear even to myself whether or not I did verbally formulate the alternatives . |
| 9 | Like several other drivers , they spun almost in unison , but it was the Nissan that made it back to the pits first . |
| 10 | But although she moans , it was Michelle Pfeiffer 's looks that led her out of a dead-end job as a check-out girl at Vons supermarket in El Toro , California . |
| 11 | Not our questions about the problem of God , but God 's call and invitation to us determined the direction of his thought and shaped his writing ; and it was this basic orientation that led him on to the restatement of christological and trinitarian dogma as the foundation and horizon of theology itself . |
| 12 | ‘ And then there 's George Harrison on ‘ All Things Must Pass ’ , and The Stones ; I was a massive Stones fan , and like a lot of white middle-class American kids , it was The Stones that led me back into listening to a lot of early blues . |
| 13 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 14 | No , it 's Greg and you that got me on to saying that . |
| 15 | No I backed the first winner today and that got me out of trouble . |
| 16 | Wright is still suffering with the groin injury that ruled him out of England 's World Cup qualifier 12 days ago , while Adams also missed the Chelsea defeat after falling down some stairs on a night out last week , and needing 29 stitches in a cut forehead . |
| 17 | Luke had n't visited her at the flat again , nor invited her back to his house . |
| 18 | It it might be a help to him to have little local groups that helped him out with these things . |
| 19 | He recalled the uncanny way in which the wizard 's sword curved up and caught his own blade with a shock that jerked it out of his grip . |
| 20 | I ran across one the other day that lifted me up on wings of heady prose , only to plunge me into the deep end of bathos . |
| 21 | She was not alone any more in feeling oppressed by the strict formality , the strict time-keeping ; after-dinner games were more lively — and she was no longer the only one who wanted to giggle at the sound of the bagpipes that played them out of the dining-room after dinner every night . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're a terrible man — ’ she managed to croak as he touched her in a way that transported her back at once to the heaven of the previous night . |
| 23 | He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him . |
| 24 | There was something in the speed , as they rounded corners on two wheels , that shook her out of her bad mood , and when they drew up with a squeal of brakes in the narrow road just by Pepe 's Bar , she was laughing at Miguel 's uncharacteristic recklessness . |
| 25 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 26 | After he had put the phone down , he looked at his watch before the inevitable fingers pushed through his hair , forcing it back , and reached for his glasses , that magic movement that turned him back to Dr Rafaelo . |
| 27 | Omnipresence was only one of several attributes that tipped him over into the realm of the superhuman . |
| 28 | He was like a gold miner , chipping away at the rocks and occasionally discovering tantalizing little nuggets that spurred him on towards his dream of striking a rich seam . |
| 29 | It had to be Travis , and that spurred her on to reckless speed , putting too much weight on her much tried ankle , until it could only do one thing — collapse under her . |
| 30 | She knew what that could mean , when the labourer was as young and inexperienced as he , and she looked him over again carefully for the signs of his servitude , ignoring the forbidding stare that warned her off from probing . |