Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Honor straightened up and mopped her eyes . |
| 2 | What I was saying was , just that like , they had all these pieces of furniture in there , it was supposed to be a suite , but my mum , my mum got round and tell you every single piece that was a different colour or the wrong shape , or did n't fit on the pedestal properly , or this and that , and she had the whole lot changed at least three times . |
| 3 | But the gang found out and followed him here . |
| 4 | I remember going down to the bridge in Walsall and a sailor climbed the old clock and tied his collar around it and a soldier got up and put his hat on and an airman got up and put his tie with a red , white and blue rosette on it , around the arms of the old clock and people were loving and kissing everywhere , and oh it was really you had to be alive to appreciate it . |
| 5 | On the Monday , the bulldozer moved in and turned what had been a rough path into a track about 8 feet wide . |
| 6 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
| 7 | After a few minutes a barman came in and asked everyone to move outside with the other hotel guests who had been evacuated from the building . |
| 8 | Deane picked the ball up outside the area and run diagonally at goal , beat 2 or 3 defenders and took it past another but the ball was running away and Speed came in and hit it with his right foot . |
| 9 | She went out of one door but then a sheet of flame came down and blocked me , so I had to look for another way out . ’ |
| 10 | She continued to play until his hands came on her shoulders , and somehow she kept on playing until his hand lifted her loose hair behind the ear and his mouth came down and touched it . |
| 11 | But , as the wheel hurtled down and round he could see Tony , safe in his little illuminated booth . |
| 12 | Her face was still turned into the cushion , her dress twisted tightly round her generous curves , the skirt hitched up and exposing her plump , well-shaped legs . |
| 13 | He attempted to stop the wheel of history , but the wheel turned on and crushed him on the cross . |
| 14 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 15 | Little Chef leapt up and licked her nose . |
| 16 | To cut a long story short his mate tried to open the bridge the wrong way and the boat drifted down and hit it . |
| 17 | They had gone about a hundred and fifty yards when a figure in blue combat gear loomed up and signalled them to stop . |
| 18 | P : I was coming home from a party with Robert Mitchum drinking cider when one of Shane 's gang came out and stabbed me in the arm … ( goes on for about ten more pages — Freudian Ed ) |
| 19 | ‘ After the match , the chairman came in and showed me the other results and the league placings . |
| 20 | Somewhere there , but off the would n't it be but erm it was an event erm when I had a rise in wages my mother being a dressmaker she used to have a machine under the little front window and when I got a , I had a , they 'd put my wages up to ten shillings , and when I got in mum came over and said what 's the matter with you she said you seem as if you 're walking on air I said I 'd had a rise in wages and it was up from eight and four pence up to ten shillings I do n't know what that seems but still . |
| 21 | Er , no what happened , my sister came up and brought her two kids in the afternoon |
| 22 | The pretty schoolteacher straightened up and put her hands together . |
| 23 | We went to another call and like these were upper class and this young constable got out and told them to fuck away off . |
| 24 | This one was bodged together from old planks and doors from wrecked houses , intended as little more than a defence in court for the demolition company when some child got through and broke his neck amongst the rubble . |
| 25 | And when the silly girl found out and rejected him he raped her for her pains . |
| 26 | He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now . |
| 27 | A bloke came round and gave it all me . |
| 28 | This other bloke came in and joined 'im . |
| 29 | Once , four girls were collecting shells when a big swell came in and swept them away . |
| 30 | The fist came up and caught him on the side of the head and Jack went down , seeing little sparkling stars . |