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Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1	After a short pause to watch us , she passed on surrounded by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and other local dignitaries .
2	He will implement procedures laid down to comply with the Company 's duty of care and will liaise with the Group Environmental Manager on such issues .
3	The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return .
4	Some of the unskilled youngsters drafted in to help with the decorating did not .
5	Swam down to sniff at the trembling .
6	Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed .
7	There was a row of bright enamel saucepans , an Italian coffee pot and two or three painted ceramic jars on the shelves ; Melissa bent down to peek into a cupboard and saw an array of packets and tinned foods and several types of pasta in glass jars .
8	He bent down to stare at the floor .
9	After a while she came over to Tallis and bent down to peer at the human .
10	Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder .
11	She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms .
12	With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan .
13	He was forcefully kicked in his stomach , and bent over groaning with the pain .
14	Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room .
15	The Land Rover pulled into the ambulance unloading bay at the hospital and then moved off to wait in the staff car park while Donaldson took Mrs Balanchine to the men 's ward .
16	On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying .
17	To my left the shallow ridge that formed an edge of the valley rose up to finish at a shallow bump .
18	And when they gave over I ventured back to see from the hillside , where there was some cover .
19	The former Middlesbrough reserve bounced back to form after a spell on the sidelines by hammering a hat-trick in the 6–1 win over Harrogate Town on Tuesday .
20	When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops .
21	‘ I moved out to stay in a hotel and I think Tracie preferred it that way .
22	Any decent sized salmon would be bound to show itself as it moved around waiting for the next tide to free it .
23	What is anatomical basis of this orientation selectivity ? ( personal communication ) suggests an answer which is reminiscent of that proposed by to account for the ability of octopuses to recognize spatial patterns .
24	Ken Corduroy drove round to the Harrisons ' with an ingenious pool-cleaning device , a mechanical object that swam round scrubbing at the walls , he had ordered for them from England .
25	When Jos moved round to work on the other side of the gate , he handed Mungo a sheet of sandpaper , telling him to use plenty of ‘ elbow grease ’ .
26	We visited the Legion 's museum the following day and wandered round looking at the different flags of the units which had fought all over the world for 150 years .
27	We treated each other within our little group humanely and normally , and passed over thinking about the others .
28	Diana and Charles stooped down to search through the clothes .
29	Blaise Cendrars , the writer , saw Modigliani let fall a twenty-franc note one evening when a well-known pauper came in to sit at the next table .
30	A door at the end of the hall opened , and Arkhina came in attended by a serving woman .