Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [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 | We tried to escape but every time they caught us and beat us . |
| 3 | I tried to eavesdrop but the door was too thick . |
| 4 | She tried to laugh but the sound died in her before it reached her lips . |
| 5 | Whitlock tried to explain but the policeman 's grip tightened on the revolver and he repeated the order . |
| 6 | She tried to speak but no sound would come . |
| 7 | Putt tried to reply but the result was a sound such as might escape from the lips of a choking man . |
| 8 | This was the notorious occasion when the new musical aesthetic of Schoenberg and his pupils led to uproar and the calling of the police . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She looked around with a bright smile , which turned to surprise and a hint of dismay . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Warm rain began to fall and the land came to life . |
| 19 | Buckingham Palace declined to comment but the honour is likely to be shared between Hardy Amies , who has already designed outfits for her , and Victor Edelstein , who specialises in glamorous evening wear . |
| 20 | As the piece of soap in the bathroom began to diminish or a toilet roll grow thin , so the replacement would be moved from the Base Depot to the Command Depot — a cupboard upstairs . |
| 21 | The next moment , the railway lines began to shake and a train came screaming out of the tunnel . |
| 22 | Gradually contact with street prostitutes began to grow and a relationship of trust began to be established . |
| 23 | As the Oaks moved again , the wounds yawned and slowly , slowly , inch by terrible inch , they gaped wider and skin began to tear and the muscle and bone began to part with a sound that made Floy and Snodgrass both feel sick . |
| 24 | Towards the end of the century pornographic magazines , which extensively used the sexual content of cases with accompanying obscene prints , began to emerge and the number of these kinds of magazines increased appreciably after 1800 . |
| 25 | Soon the traffic began to thin and the road became a long straight fenland route with occasional trees and sporadic bungalows slipping into the dykes . |
| 26 | The crowd began to disperse but the dancing continued — do you call that dancing Neil ? |
| 27 | After a time Milhaez began to sing and the boat seemed to be carried upriver on his voice . |
| 28 | Mrs Browning began to laugh but the laugh brought on a coughing fit and , when Wilson rushed to her aid and raised her higher on the pillow , her face took on an ugly blue tinge , which she had never seen before . |
| 29 | Then the fingers began to move and the piano got louder and stopped with a final note as the hand fell on to the floor . |
| 30 | But the pressure soon began to tell and a year after their marriage three-times wed Mr Friend left . |