Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Pest-Buda , the cannons thundered and the whole city celebrated . ’ |
| 2 | She looked at Graham , not smiling , then her lips trembled and a small smile did appear . |
| 3 | Left : a Victorian arrangement of butterflies , beetles and moths , a jug by the potter Gill Bent and a snake-handled majolica vase in the drawing room . |
| 4 | The District was one of the ten mentioned and the national statistics almost exactly reflected its own position . |
| 5 | Following the end of the war the king , Vittorio Emanuele III , abdicated and a national referendum abolished the monarchy in favour of a republic , with the new king , Umberto II , going into exile . |
| 6 | An icy wind howled and a great wall of snow bore down upon them . |
| 7 | Don Quarrie coached Stewart , and in one of the buses that returned the athletes to the Village at the end of the day 's events , as the escorting police motor cyclists ' sirens whined and the blue lights flashed and Italian families paused in their evening perambulations to catch a glimpse of these new gladiators , he said simply |
| 8 | Her arm throbbed and burned and the bruised cheek ached intolerably . |
| 9 | P S told the jury not three quarters of an hour ago that the automatic door opener did n't work , it was taken off re-fitted and the automatic door opener was used to open the door . |
| 10 | They were still doing jobs at that were long since dispensed with at you know , marshalling and that and methods that adopted and the shunting techniques . |
| 11 | With Olympic silver medallist Mark Rowland injured and no other Briton having broken 8 mins 36 secs , Walker is the clear British number one in the event this summer , but he wants the security of a qualifying time before the Olympic trials meeting in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 . |
| 12 | He smiled and lifted his champagne glass to his lips and Ruth expected some sort of challenge thrown out but none came and a strange feeling percolated inside her , almost disappointment , but she shooed away the notion . |
| 13 | Mr. Harden came and a comfortable party of faces ’ was his descriptive if rather enigmatic remark . |
| 14 | Perhaps the old woman would die too before really warm weather came and the old man began to smell when they could save by burying both with one funeral . |
| 15 | But there was still you know a substantial It was more or less the same case as we had before in terms of the traffic relief that each afforded and the economic rates of return . |
| 16 | As the creation of the vortex began , the seas churned and a terrible wind blew from the north . |
| 17 | The marked deterioration in the position of the Russian peasant under Catherine 's rule has allowed historians to point the contrast between the enlightened ideals which she proclaimed and the oppressive despotism which she allegedly practised . |
| 18 | The vapour exploded and a huge fireball ripped through the maisonette . |
| 19 | The pilot tried to turn back but the jet exploded and a large fireball ripped into a crowded residential area . |
| 20 | Minton encouraged them to do as they pleased and a high time was had whilst he paid the bills . |
| 21 | He 'd been right about the entire day : the fountains in Rome , the quiet beauty of the little villages they passed and the gentle sweep of the campagna . |
| 22 | The tree-branches creaked and the dry leaves rattled , for Baba Yaga was flying back over the trees in her pestle and mortar . |
| 23 | Most of them were on the lean side because of the hard life they led and the long walks they took over hilly country to reach their fields . |
| 24 | Therefore a lesser sum will be lent and the difference between the sum lent and the full amount will equate to the ‘ interest ’ being charged . |
| 25 | Yet the move failed and the Conservative Party dropped the policy for the rest of the 1920s . |
| 26 | But in both cases the pre-raid recces were not much help on the night , for Milner-Gibson 's compass failed and the German dispositions on Guernsey were changed by the time of the raid . |
| 27 | Although the Fontainebleau conference failed and the Vietnamese delegation went home , Ho stayed on to conclude , on 14 September 1946 , what Sainteny has called ‘ that pathetic modus vivendi ’ which gave France economic concessions and the promise of maintaining cultural connections in return for her co-operation in securing an armistice in the South . |
| 28 | He had the open face of an andrew and the reassuring strength she had sensed in Juliet . |
| 29 | Beneath Rain 's chin Barbara Coleman 's white head quivered and a broken voice chanted : ‘ Murder ! |
| 30 | Then suddenly he lunged and the pleasant sensation was gone , replaced not by pain but by a strange , full feeling and Sally began to feel frightened again . |