Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a while he tried to read , tried to sink back down into the fortunes of young Pao-yu and his beloved cousin , Tai-yu , but it was no good ; his mind kept returning to the question of the Aristotle File and what it might mean for Chung Kuo . |
| 2 | Anyone who tried to set up in between us would find it hard going . |
| 3 | When a scuffle broke out , Saville moved to get away out of the way and fell awkwardly . ’ |
| 4 | Several weeks ago Victor came crashing down out of a tree and on to his back . |
| 5 | The tide was rising : it came filtering gently in through the salt-marsh vegetation , washing up the beach and receding , leaving ribbons of foam along the sand . |
| 6 | His glass eye — he had lost the original when he was cleaning a gun — seemed to swivel further out of true than usual and stared pleasantly at the fire ; the real one looked like a razor . |
| 7 | There was a thick concrete wall which we were all going to hide behind and we had our helmets on in case any car parts came raining down out of the sky . |
| 8 | There was stuff piled up in it till it 'd spilled over on to the pathway . |
| 9 | I mean , if I were to sell my house now supposing somebody came galloping in along before Christmas ooh ooh I want the house on the first of Feb and they 'd come and they 'd see the house and they say yes I want it , want it , want it and it was plain that they were going to want it and we started to talk money , as soon as we 'd got the solid block of money I want one O two you er estate agent tells me I can get ninety seven between ninety five and ninety seven say they offer me ninety six |
| 10 | He felt depressed despite the weather and he blamed the little seaside town , where life in the winter seemed to go on out of habit . |
| 11 | He came shambling shyly out of his room , his black face almost coy in the embarrassing anticipation of being thanked . |
| 12 | As Daphne said this there flashed into Cecilia 's mind that conversation with Tina , that terrible thing Tina had said , and another thought , one that seemed to swim up out of the deep waters of her unconscious , the idea that she , Cecilia Darne , yes , she , had once long ago met the right girl , and here was that right girl talking to her now of something , oh , so akin to what Tina meant … |
| 13 | Tabitha hung her bag on her shoulder and came walking nonchalantly down from the cockpit , not even glancing up to see the great cables gliding rapidly down towards her head . |
| 14 | She hummed a tune and pretended to care about tasting a fragment of fish she 'd pinched up out of the herby broth . |
| 15 | fifty eight roles he 'd done earlier on in his career and he wanted to sort of you know , have a go at everything |
| 16 | Maybe they 'd got straight down to it . |
| 17 | The prints spilled on to the carpet and as Sabine bent to retrieve them the young boy 's face seemed to glare directly up at her , challenging and inimical . |
| 18 | Well the earnings of course went into the business we 'd er There was Dad , he 'd retired then out of the pits , early . |
| 19 | He 'd waited for Lucy but then , when she had n't come out alone , he 'd stayed well back in the shadows . |
| 20 | In the third hour of darkness the climactic storm seemed to materialise overhead out of a sky barely dappled with clouds . |
| 21 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 22 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 23 | Then , when the war ended in the summer of 1945 , after being demobbed from Germany , he 'd gone straight back to the US , with no possible hope of any real communication between them except for one or two impermanent and unreliable addresses . |
| 24 | For years she 'd gone blithely on in her own way , enjoying the applause , proud that she could send audiences home happy , laughing and satisfied at the end of one of her shows . |
| 25 | It 'd gone right out of my mind until just now . |
| 26 | In all the euphoria following the successful birth , and the tea- and sandwich-making with Mrs Chalk afterwards , she 'd gone quietly along with everyone 's air of respectful gratitude for Guy , who 'd saved the day , whisked Lucy to hospital , kept everyone calm and optimistic , loomed in the background like a rock of dependable strength . |
| 27 | The sensation seemed to spread right down to the very pit of her stomach . |
| 28 | Now once he 'd stepped forward on to the on to the shore what happened ? |
| 29 | I opened the door for Patterson and then locked the cab up after he 'd stepped gingerly on to the pavement . |
| 30 | Over the piece , however , United took more out of the game . |