Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest of these groups , those born in or descended from those born in the Indian subcontinent , is itself divisible into sub-groups with important differences between them — such as language and religion . |
| 2 | I went in and looked with some surprise at a pan of sausages balanced on the coals . |
| 3 | Then jealousy and anxiety moved in and squatted like diseased vagrants . |
| 4 | I went in and spoke to one of the secretaries who said she would er she would do it and send us material . |
| 5 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 6 | Then we e enhanced it and then eventually er Robin knocked this up you see from all the work we 'd done , but we never sat down and went through this . |
| 7 | She stopped part way down and crouched on one of the treads , from which vantage point she was able to peer through the rails of the bannister and see directly into the sitting room . |
| 8 | I broke down and cried for fifteen minutes . |
| 9 | The birds flew up noisily , circled , and then they came down and settled in another tree not far away . |
| 10 | At a time when rock fans expected country folk to be psychotic rednecks ready to gun down anyone with hair over their ears — pace Easy Rider — Cash came along and fought for Indian rights , recorded with Bob Dylan , and received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan . |
| 11 | Our teachers cycled to school and as soon as they were seen coming up the road , children walked along and behaved like little angels — if not , they would be in trouble as soon as they got into school . |
| 12 | Northumberland senior boys 110 metres hurdler Kevin Lumsden knocked four barriers down but won in 14.9 secs , a three-second improvement on the run which earned him the county title seven days earlier . |
| 13 | Fifteen miles south of Garberville my eyes began to close and I pulled over and slept for half an hour . |
| 14 | I went over and looked at some of the characters . |
| 15 | But he did not admit defeat to the extent of turning the television off ; he simply left it on and went into another room . |
| 16 | ( 4 ) A solicitor 's employee who would not otherwise qualify under sub-paragraph ( 1 ) ( b ) of this rule to manage an office and who was 50 years of age or more on and had at that date been continuously employed in connection with the practice of that solicitor for not less than 20 years shall , provided he or she exercised the duty of management at that date , be entitled to continue to do so until retiring or attaining the age of 70 years , whichever first happens . |
| 17 | As we rode on and emerged into open country a mist was hanging some feet above the ground , as if suspended by a conjuror . |
| 18 | Apparently industrialised nations and their politicians torture themselves into believing that if Third World countries are turned into amphitheatres of food and agricultural research , lustily cheered on and abetted by Western ‘ gurus ’ , everything will be hunky-dory . |
| 19 | They just took off and left for good . |
| 20 | " Now as soon as Rabscuttle got inside the King 's palace , he scurried off and went into one of the dark burrows ; and here he hid all day . |
| 21 | He was booted off and landed on some fencing , causing great damage to his testicular region . |
| 22 | Except 176 , the other eight care remained in service until 1960–1 , when they were broken up or used as Illuminated feature cars . |
| 23 | Conversely , flame-coloured harridans that looked as if only Agent Orange could stop them curled up and died of aristocratic pique at the advancing hordes of dandelions . |
| 24 | Although projects for the reform of the courts were being drawn up and had in some cases been completed , " the date of their publication can not yet be predicted with any certainty " . |
| 25 | Sonny Worthington , who 's twenty five , was beaten up and dragged for half a mile by the car in Banbury almost two weeks ago . |
| 26 | They came up and fought for half an hour till they was both flat on their backs , on the waste land there . |
| 27 | When they had finished , Rachaela got up and walked to one of the windows . |
| 28 | A man jumped up and ran after Black Dog . |
| 29 | I then got up and went into another room , where I found the father Delavaud , still clothed , and lying on the bed , dead . |
| 30 | And could n't stand up and went like this ! |