Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theodora watched as the woman whose voice would carry across a couple of ten-acre fields , and who could bring a rowdy committee to heel by clearing her throat , murmuring intimately into the mare 's ear and made little clucking noises as she plied her with carrots . |
| 2 | Delegates agreed only to postpone action until after a decision by the UN General Assembly [ see p. 39121 ] . |
| 3 | Their feet made loud sucking noises as they tramped over to the burn . |
| 4 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 5 | Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside |
| 6 | Russian-Teleut clashes also occurred over trapping rights as well as over yasak payment from subject peoples . |
| 7 | And put the phone down and that was it and I said well you 'd better go dad cos case he wanted to speak to anybody . |
| 8 | If that 's what yer want yer 'd better ask Annie if she 'd consider workin' all day instead o' jus ' the mornin 's . ’ |
| 9 | Crushes were all very well , they 'd all had crushes since they were seven , but Sam was nearly seventeen , and Camille could see her childhood slipping away . |
| 10 | The penalty seemed pretty clear-cut and it was a stroke of luck that they 'd just substituted Fashanu as he is their usual penalty taker ( pretty reliable from what I can recall ) . |
| 11 | The morning after the Ober Gabelhorn the Germans came over to say goodbye as we packed our gear on the hut terrace . |
| 12 | But these scabs went back and made slates , and there was erm two officials there , they they 'd never made slate when we were working up there . |
| 13 | He 'd never had affection so he could n't give it . |
| 14 | During 1860–2 he had found his title and ideas for some of the leading incidents , including the story of a young man feigning death and living with an assumed identity , but was unable to set himself to the writing until the autumn of 1863 , when he determined not to begin publication until he had 5 numbers in hand , since he was now writing so slowly , with care and with difficulty . |
| 15 | Delaney stood with one foot on the hull of the craft that looked as if it owed more to space technology than to marine engineering . |
| 16 | Right , I got a cheque in my pocket made out to pay cash so she said you can go in and cash it on the counter . |
| 17 | They decided not to warn Terry when they wrote to him , and later Tony said quietly to Sarah , ‘ I was n't criticising Terry when I said that , Sar . |
| 18 | Mr Tennant , of The Royd , Yarm , said : ‘ I kept on writing poetry while I was in hospital to fill the time and keep my spirits up . ’ |
| 19 | This question went on to ask respondents whether they had seen the booklet , or any part of it . |
| 20 | So , having no more to discuss on that topic , I went on to ask Sylvia if she could think of a place in her own home where she felt uneasy if the door was shut . |
| 21 | Although I was upset by the old lady 's words , I followed her advice , and in the weeks before the wedding I went on teaching Adèle as usual . |
| 22 | The railway moguls went on to make fortunes while undiversified canal companies went broke . |
| 23 | These were patients who missed the one or more check cystoscopies in that first year , and went on to have recurrence when they were next cystoscopied . |
| 24 | All of the migrants saw locally provided courses as attractive . |
| 25 | We went in to see Jennie before we left . |
| 26 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 27 | I chose not to use swimfeeders because of the patchy carpet of algae on the bottom . |
| 28 | They went out to drink champagne as promised . |
| 29 | You quite happily went around killing parasites because they had no way to defend themselves against you . |
| 30 | Thus a careful analysis of the USA system was undertaken in the belief that no race under the sun knew how to sell products as well as Americans . |