Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The single median fins down the mid-line of their backs or undersides prevented them from spinning in the water and gave them a degree of stability , but none had paired lateral fins . |
| 2 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |
| 3 | If Alice or Bert filled it with hot water and it leaked causing injury , would either of them have an action ? |
| 4 | Speed was substituted early on and Pemberton came on giving Fairclough a hand ( although neither Chapman or Morley tested them for pace — basically because they have n't got any ) . |
| 5 | She knew she had nothing to feel guilty about despite her attraction to Luke , having resisted him , but his relationship with Cavell was none of her business really , and whether Luke finally confessed that he had intended to be unfaithful or Cavell discovered it for herself , she did n't want to have to feel responsible for any eventual break-up . |
| 6 | Dracula 's Haus — & Hofmusik revealed itself as a work of pleasing surfaces , but no great depth or impact . |
| 7 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 8 | But in the 1980s career-swaps became the fastgrowth area , fuelled , VGA executive director Susan Bloch says , by ‘ people who trained as engineers , lawyers or dentists — perhaps because their parents or teachers wanted them to — and loathed it ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ No other man has approached our convent walls , nor have travellers or pedlars reported anyone on the roads . |
| 10 | I do n't know if I did it for Dad or Dad did it for me . |
| 11 | Either Jamie Baird was particularly close to Puddephat , or Puddephat wanted him to be . |
| 12 | Never before in his seventy-nine years had sovereign or consort accused him of enmity . |
| 13 | Neither Marx nor Engels considered himself to be historian or anthropologist . |
| 14 | Neither Marxism Today , Socialist Review nor Tribune had anything at all to say about the programme . |
| 15 | Karen thought of Tony , and Jessica knew it from her face . |
| 16 | The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows . |
| 17 | Influenced by these dreams , beautiful mornings seemed to mock her waking despair , but once she had shaken herself free from their shades , sun , sky , trees and birds enveloped her like a benediction . |
| 18 | It was late in the afternoon when we arrived , and Taylor took me for a drive through the town , which apart from the centre had been badly damaged . |
| 19 | Their structures and attitudes alienated me from participating more fully . |
| 20 | That being the case , Ann and I quickly arranged to visit our son , to see his new home — and have a few casts ; and Blair took me to where he had landed his sea-trout , in the sea-pool between Clett headland and Rubha Glas , over the golden sands at Geireann . |
| 21 | Remember when Dad found that puffball up there and Mum did it with bacon — ? ’ |
| 22 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 23 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |
| 24 | And Lisa hated herself for that . |
| 25 | It was a statement of fact rather than the opening shot in an argument and Trent accepted it as such . |
| 26 | She pitched forward into the flooded darkness of the interior , and Trent heaved himself after her . |
| 27 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 28 | They were gradually weaned off the drugs and Valnet treated them with internal doses of essential oils instead . |
| 29 | They were helpless , and Medoc had them at his mercy . |
| 30 | Then between us we carried her to the river and rolled her in and Nour washed himself at the edge of the crocodile pool . |