Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Gary is assured of a permanent place in Palace annals , because he became only our third player ever to appear in all the different numbered outfield shirts , when he wore the number three Jersey at Barnsley on 23 August 1986 . |
| 2 | Daisy suddenly wanted to check her face , and when he went off at the end of the chukka to talk to the next group playing , which included Perdita , she toned down her rosy cheeks and drenched her neck with Je Reviens , but failed to put the top back on properly , so it stank out the Land-Rover . |
| 3 | She laid down her Cosmopolitan magazine , open at fashions , loose flowing shirts in jewel colours . |
| 4 | The son of a schoolmaster , James lived in he small town of Tunapuna near the capital , Port of Spain . |
| 5 | West German attention remained centred on the affairs of Central Europe — nor had the Germans either completely liberated themselves from or lived down their own past . |
| 6 | He flung down his soft hat and cane , crossed to where she stood , took her hand . |
| 7 | Every time , therefore , they met together their aggregate expenses amounted to at least £12 to £15 , or even more " . |
| 8 | And read aloud his deathless verse , |
| 9 | His only movement was in the tears which crept down his pale cheeks . |
| 10 | As the growing Waaagh moved past Mad Dog Pass it was joined by the Goblin tribes that lived along its tunnel-strewn length . |
| 11 | She washed quickly , the water barely lukewarm , but the tepid water helped clear her muzzy head , and she began running through her plans for the day — if she kept herself busy she could avoid the drink . |
| 12 | As a teenager he dropped his first name , Paul , and used only his second name , Jackson . |
| 13 | He used only his trained specialists from Fulham . |
| 14 | A low pass carries a narrow road from Kinlochewe to the sea , and ranged along its northern side are the two huge masses of Beinn Eighe and Liathach , together extending in intimidating slopes over a distance of ten miles : Munros both , and among the best . |
| 15 | Tearing out a sheet from his notebook , de Castelnau scribbled down his historic order that Verdun must be defended at all costs on the Right Bank , and handed it to Pétain . |
| 16 | Her eyes had become accustomed to the dark , and she could see , as she peered down it either way , that to the left this road opened out . |
| 17 | I was just feeling the early morning sun as it warmed the beads of sweat that dripped down my two days ' stubble . |
| 18 | Passes played into space there created a two-goal , first-half deficit , which the patient patterns Everton built down their right flank ultimately merited to cancel : a team , in fact , of two halves . |
| 19 | Blanche sucked in her bottom lip with a presentiment of bad news . |
| 20 | He sucked in his ill-shaven cheeks and stroked his thin lips , and stared at them . |
| 21 | With the bee in her sleeve she rowed on , into the unknown sea beyond , and she let down her little bone hook on its slender line . |
| 22 | She had not finished it when Uncle Philip crashed down his own spoon on an empty bowl . |
| 23 | So the world of science moved along its intellectual railway tracks , and its further progress seemed , like that of the railways themselves , to offer the prospect of the laying-down of more tracks of the same kind through new territory . |
| 24 | To only a few had he been the devil who gloated over their private grief . |
| 25 | As he walked towards the towering ship , he mused over his good fortune . |
| 26 | Willie peered over his clasped hands in the direction of the choir . |
| 27 | Raising his voice , he shouted over their rising clamour . |
| 28 | The result was a certain pragmatic consensus which glossed over their ideological differences in favour of meeting local ‘ needs ’ and an emphasis on process at the expense of content and direction . |
| 29 | She sighed when she set it back in its saucer — and sighed again with pleasure as she bent over her poached egg . |
| 30 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |