Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She bent and kissed Dionne and slammed out of the flat . |
| 2 | Fifty yards out he stopped and trod water while getting his breath and watched the patrol boat drop anchor while still two hundred yards out . |
| 3 | She was n't a pioneer with rhythm or phrasing like Louis Armstrong and Bing Crosby were , but she embodied and invaded lyrics and exuded a peculiar pain which tormented rock stars have tried to emulate ever since . |
| 4 | Is he aware that Father Reilley , the chairman of the governors , has already been disposed of , that the new chairman had a brawl with the head teacher , to which the police had to be called , that the chairman has purported to sack the head teacher and that the Department has intervened and had correspondence and has appointed new governors ? |
| 5 | They crossed the strip of wasteland underneath the motorway link that came tunnelling and bridging its way through the hilly landscape , and entered a zone of fenced-off lots containing warehouses and sales-rooms , light industrial units and the offices of small businesses . |
| 6 | ‘ The bear turned and eyed Trevor and went after him … ‘ |
| 7 | Similarly , one would like to see a state of affairs in which many more people read and enjoyed poetry than had taken a degree in it . |
| 8 | It is only when people are shown and offered things that excite their brains and imagination that standards go up . |
| 9 | B Once Fokine had demonstrated that mimed dance and danced mime were the best materials to use in ballets where individual characters had to stand out from the rest of the cast , and particularly when true love did not run smoothly , other choreographers. followed suit . |
| 10 | They laughed and talked and sipped sangría and ate prawns on café terraces and watched the world walk by . |
| 11 | They are ‘ justified ’ by the grace of God that gives them what they do not deserve , and by the ‘ faith ’ which grasps that proffered gift and responds in obedient dedication to that proffered love . |
| 12 | She was hit and caught fire while going in to attack at low level and her pilot Don MacIntyre brought her down on the frozen surface of nearby Lake Hocklingen . |
| 13 | They whooped and abused passers-by and fired water-pistols . |
| 14 | As a young boy , he planted and harvested rice and tended the family 's water buffalo and other domestic animals . |
| 15 | Mr Suzuki 's flourishes merely echoed and embellished words that had been uttered with signal prescience almost exactly eighty years before , by John Hay . |
| 16 | These are portfolios of written calls and puts or bought calls and puts with the same exercise price and expiry date on the same underlying security . |
| 17 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 18 | This is a well contested and discussed argument and to make a fair judgement , one must first hear a non-biased account of the facts and following that , hear both sides of the argument . |
| 19 | The cafés were full once again ; men drank and played cards and talked endlessly about the war . |
| 20 | The little ledge on the vertical edge was in the shade and we sat and sucked sweets and looked back down the sweeping ridge to where we 'd started , hours ago . |