Example sentences of "[vb past] sprung [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She occupied a tiny apartment hidden away beneath Betty 's house , and she had a habit of materializing unexpectedly as if she 'd sprung up through a trapdoor . |
| 2 | The essence of the British suggestion was that the time had come to rationalise the proliferation of European institutions that had sprung up over the past decade , most specifically by introducing a single European assembly which , unrelated to any one organisation , would serve them all . |
| 3 | A sharp cold wind had sprung up with the fading light , removing the sweaty warmth of her exertions and letting her know that she was cold and exhausted . |
| 4 | They were in obvious danger from the revolutionary " khomieths " that had sprung up throughout the country to enforce radical change . |
| 5 | As before , he disguised himself in beggar 's clothes , and hobbled into the village which had sprung up around the river of wine . |
| 6 | The benefits became clearer as companies , like the multinational Philips , fired their workers and contracted work out , often to the hundreds of small outfits that had sprung up in the surrounding Lima shanty towns of Villa El Salvador , Comas , or Independencia . |
| 7 | So , the Excavator 's house of Call had sprung up from a beer-shop ; and the old -established Ham and Beef Shop had become the Railway Eating House , with a roast leg of pork daily , through interested motives of a similar immediate and popular description . |
| 8 | Throughout these crucial years of twentieth-century growth , the many colonial countries that had provided so many natural and human resources for the Western machine began to demand an independence of their own , fired by the very principles of democracy that had sprung out of the Enlightenment and inspired the French and American revolutions . |
| 9 | Peace News reported on the revolt against the ‘ multiversity ’ at the symbol of liberal corporate America , the Berkeley campus within the University of California ; it reported on the growing movement that had sprung out of the deep south civil rights campaign . |