Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she got over the stroke she fell and broke her hand . |
| 2 | These wolf calls middle peasants because , although they were squatting illegally on the land , in practice they owned and worked their small plots . |
| 3 | In the winter she fell and broke her thigh , for the second time . |
| 4 | ‘ Wait and see , ’ she said and to both their surprises she turned and put her arms on Maggie 's shoulders . |
| 5 | With a small guttural sigh she relaxed and allowed him to part her thighs . |
| 6 | At home she unloaded and stacked them in the basement . |
| 7 | My child you used and pierced my heart a hundred times and deep . ’ |
| 8 | After a few moments more of this platitudinous chat we bowed and went our ways . |
| 9 | At Santerre 's insistence we sat and warmed ourselves with possets of hot wine and slices of sugared pastry . |
| 10 | At their turning they bowed and shook our hands in farewell . |
| 11 | In the frenzy of dancing they lifted and tossed her from one to another , effortlessly through the air like seaweed in the sea . |
| 12 | I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra . |
| 13 | Send off for the copies you missed and complete your collection of Britain 's newest , brightest gardening magazine . |
| 14 | Well you should save the programmes you recorded and watch them on a Saturday . |
| 15 | There were tears in her eyes and when they went through to the kitchen she hugged and kissed them both . |
| 16 | She used to ride over on a white mare she borrowed and tether it somewhere over there by that tree . ’ |
| 17 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 18 | The Copleys had gone upstairs to take their afternoon rest and for a moment she wondered whether to tell them to lock their bedroom door . |
| 19 | For many weeks she watched and noted their social behaviour without being spat at . |
| 20 | We read your guide to clipping dogs ' nails ( December issue ) and bought the nail cutters you recommended and did it ourselves , following your guide . |
| 21 | This time tragedy struck : at the fifth last obstacle she fell and broke her neck , dying instantly . |
| 22 | He was back in a very short while and to her embarrassment he knelt and bathed her feet carefully , putting a plaster on a slight cut after he had dried them . |
| 23 | Having filled two glasses I sat and drank one while the storm was dying . |
| 24 | Her voice was thin and cold , the way I like it After a while she cooed and cursed me into peace . |
| 25 | He made an emotional scene on the day she signed and told her that , if she did not sign , the company would be bankrupt and her son John would lose his home . |
| 26 | One day she fell and broke her hip : it was repaired in hospital but she remained in some pain and was even more precarious on her feet . |
| 27 | In fact , in the middle of one night they came and moved my bed to another part of the hospital without saying a word to me . |
| 28 | The next day he rang and begged his father to fetch him home , but without explaining why . |
| 29 | That is to say , it tended to focus on what children can not do rather than what they can do , and in ( rightly ) attending to their problems it underplayed or ignored their potential . |
| 30 | Although his features were almost hidden by the collar of his goosedown parka he nodded and did something with his eyebrows that made the company smile . |