Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This has been one of the central preoccupations of ethnographic police research , especially that inspired by phenomenology and ethnomethodology , and so apposite is policing to this focus that many theoreticians from within phenomenology and ethnomethodology have used it for the application of their ideas ( Cicourel 1968 ; Pollner 1987 ; Sacks 1972 ; Sudnow 1965 ) . |
2 | Early in July , it also became evident that while the Austrian troops were falling back in collapse , German formations on the front fought stubbornly and retreated with discipline . |
3 | She peered at the tangle of brambles inside and shook with excitement : there was a perfect spider 's web today . |
4 | Proceedings were adjourned until July 11 , so that witnesses could be called , but the justices sitting on that date concluded that they had no power to consider the case afresh and proceeded to sentence . |
5 | The muscles of his legs and arms bulged alarmingly and shone with sweat as he braced himself against the bulkheads to study the small control panel . |
6 | Athelstan hardly recognised him : his face was a mass of sores , his hair long and matted with filth and vermin . |
7 | Joe tapped his fingertips together and looked from face to face . |
8 | She pulled herself together and went to bed . |
9 | The two falcons flew together and disappeared into cloud . |
10 | Some premonition alerted her subconscious ; earlier disquiets and a vague sense of unease came together and focused into fear . |
11 | When , without warning , Fernand dropped on to all fours beside a huge outcrop of bare rock , she all but fell on top of him . |
12 | In cloud-pale rags , or in lace , The rage-driven , rage-tormented , and rage-hungry troop , Trooper belabouring trooper , biting at arm or at face , Plunges towards nothing , arms and fingers spreading wide For the embrace of nothing ; and I , my wits astray Because of all that senseless tumult , all but cried For vengeance on the murderers of Jacques Molay . |
13 | The RFC machines — mainly BE2s , Bleriots and Henri Farmans — operated individually and came under attack not by enemy aircraft but by artillery , and even by rifle fire from their own troops . |
14 | ‘ And 12s to 50s lasted longer and stayed in tune better , ’ chips in Keith , ‘ so you did n't have to change them as often . |
15 | She crumpled it , threw it away and went to bed . |
16 | Then he turned away and went to sleep and I lay there and wept , feeling an absolute failure ’ . |
17 | Then , when Hyde thought the driver was beginning to suspect something , he sent the taxicab away and continued on foot . |
18 | Then he took his arms away and roared with laughter and drew comic glasses round her eyes on the glass . |
19 | This time the German fighter dived away and headed off north . |
20 | But when at last the planes turned away and headed for land , the order was given for all passengers to get below . |
21 | His large family lived on the floor above and scampered between hotel and home by climbing through a window and up a fire escape . |
22 | With her mother 's reluctant approval , she gave up her easy life ashore and went to sea , a career she was to follow for almost 50 years and which was to bring her lasting fame . |
23 | Ewen Mackay was still tying up when we nosed gently in to rub shoulders with Stormy Petrel , and Neil jumped ashore and turned to hand me out . |
24 | I fell indoors and crashed into Mum . |
25 | When dry the assemblies can now be gauged exactly and planed to width . |
26 | I went outside and stood in front of the police station , which was set on a hill . |
27 | Gabriel nodded furiously and gabbled with relief : ‘ It was no good pleading with him . |
28 | They said he answered some of their questions sarcastically and spoke in Russian , even though he is bilingual and the questions had been put to him in Moldavian . |
29 | she brought more moss still and pressed into shape with in the same way . |
30 | The prince limped from the polo field at Smith 's Lawn , Windsor , yesterday and lay in agony on the sidelines after straining his back . |