Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , yeah , well he rang me , so erm , I think she was expecting , I think they , when they left the house this morning , he was thinking , he 'd be able to get home in time for it , and erm , then he got to work and the day was n't , had n't worked out the way he expected . |
| 2 | Milhaez stopped singing and the captain went forward in the bow to stand as look-out . |
| 3 | Willie Baxter was gripped by fear , he did n't understand it , he hated the dark tunnels , he stopped walking and the noise stopped ; by now Willie was probably near the point where the tunnels passed under the River Clyde and it was said that it was possible to hear the sound of a ship 's propeller whenever a vessel passed overhead . |
| 4 | We tried to escape but every time they caught us and beat us . |
| 5 | Sara stopped speaking and the silence was broken only by the thudding of the printing press below . |
| 6 | A few seconds later the finger stopped moving and the man turned round the book to face Dexter . |
| 7 | On 2nd May the wind stopped blowing and the sea was calm . |
| 8 | Then he let go and the calf sank back to sleep . |
| 9 | I tried to eavesdrop but the door was too thick . |
| 10 | She tried to laugh but the sound died in her before it reached her lips . |
| 11 | The organ stopped playing and the church was very quiet . |
| 12 | Whitlock tried to explain but the policeman 's grip tightened on the revolver and he repeated the order . |
| 13 | She tried to speak but no sound would come . |
| 14 | Putt tried to reply but the result was a sound such as might escape from the lips of a choking man . |
| 15 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
| 16 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
| 17 | That night I watched television and did some paperwork , amending the maps to include the newly named Black Destroyer Hill , writing a brief description of what I 'd done to the rabbits and logging both the effects of the bombs that I 'd used and the manufacture of the latest batch . |
| 18 | Instead they stayed talking until the small hours , telling me of the strokes they 'd pulled and the mischief they 'd got into as kids — right under my unsuspecting nose ! |
| 19 | Sometimes she thought she had a fever and , in the morning when she 'd cooked and the family had eaten , too ill to work in the fields , she 'd take a rug out onto the roof and sleep in the warmth of the winter sun . |
| 20 | This was the notorious occasion when the new musical aesthetic of Schoenberg and his pupils led to uproar and the calling of the police . |
| 21 | On March 9 demonstrators , under an overtly nationalist blue flag featuring the Soyombo symbol , threatened to call a general strike ; the politburo thereupon agreed to resign and the strike was called off . |
| 22 | ( 3 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods larger than he contracted to sell and the buyer accepts the whole of the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 23 | Then its rhythmic thump turned to thunder and the turbo 's whistle soared up two octaves as it accelerated the rake of blue and grey Mk 1s along the platform . |
| 24 | Over lunch in the canteen , very early on in the field-work , the conversation turned to stress and the danger members of the RUC face . |
| 25 | She looked around with a bright smile , which turned to surprise and a hint of dismay . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sorry , Rosalind , ’ Peggy began in a rather shaky voice , ‘ but your letter got damaged and the policeman did n't think it ought to go in the post with a tear in it and so we came — ‘ |
| 27 | It drifted and swirled about him , making him peaceful and tired , until his sense of loss began to go and the night was no longer awesome , for he had the protection of a Callanish eagle near him , and that gave him peace to rest and sleep at last … |
| 28 | However , as the project came to a close the total budget provided in the grant for support workers began to dwindle and the development officers were instructed to make careful calculations of their expenditure in order not to exceed the total available . |
| 29 | Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas . |
| 30 | When the sun began to sink and the evening grew cold , they stripped their clothes from the thorn trees , collected together their pans and bamboo brooms and set out across the bridge for home . |