Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John slowly rose and sat at the table where he was soon joined by the two women . |
| 2 | The launch , however , behaved like a well-trained work-horse and merely rose and fell with the swell . |
| 3 | The Mason only snorted and cursed like a horse with croup . |
| 4 | That leaves mothers , children and older people behind in the mad scramble for the doors when the bus arrives , to stand packed together jolted and elbowed for the long slow journeys . |
| 5 | If it is true that kings only legislated when faced with an urgent need to enhance their standing with their subjects by prestigious acts of law-making , the appearance of royal codes of law in Kent and Wessex at this time may reflect something of the very considerable crisis through which these regions had recently passed . |
| 6 | The difficulty lies in the fact that the governmental authorities , however highly principled and dedicated to the welfare of the citizenry , are essentially a vested interest running an organization which , to a greater or lesser degree , is designed to preserve and promote the continuing control of those same authorities . |
| 7 | Tranmere just creaked and groaned under the pressure . |
| 8 | He would just came and went into the yardmaster 's office and had a word or two with him and then he would maybe ask to see the staff local representative and the local committee . |
| 9 | Elsewhere you will hear a Black Eyes Etude ( Op. 10 No. 5 ) wickedly tinted and inflected despite the most vertiginous brilliance and rapidly of reflex , and an Aeolian Harp ( Op. 25 No. 1 ) where the melody glides across a harmonic haze as if on air cushions . |
| 10 | They reached the outer air a moment before the octagonal arch finally broke and smashed into the flags . |
| 11 | Do you know , the girl just smiled and played with the ring on her finger . |
| 12 | I thought that maybe Elsie went under finally sickened and stifled by the righteous attitudes that prevailed at the time . |
| 13 | National carriers like Pickfords , with their own warehouses and regular clientele , soon emerged and contributed to an aggregate load which was prodigious , though unmeasurable . |
| 14 | Boxer alternately whistled and sang above the noise of the cart , familiar songs and ballads the words of which Denis allowed his mind to echo in a silent duet . |
| 15 | Members of the Palestinian negotiating team meanwhile said that according to the letter of assurances given by the co-sponsors of the Madrid conference , Israel was to retain control of security and foreign affairs during this five-year period ( according to Ziyad Abu Ziyad on Israeli radio July 6 ) . |
| 16 | The queue on Sat am was outrageous , and I was told that the end of it would n't get Oxford tickets , so I just left and hoped for the best with the fax request . |
| 17 | I just stood and stared for a few moments amid all the activity that was going on around the wounded Lovat . |
| 18 | Ellen , usually so quick with a scornful reply , just stood and stared at the elegant stranger who stopped one pace away from her , took her hand , then bowed above her fingers . |
| 19 | The chief inspector shivered with an indefinable dread , the fear she always experienced when faced by a hatred that could only be satiated through violence . |
| 20 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |
| 21 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled depths of the ocean . |
| 22 | The wind and the rain and the snow still howled and blasted through the ragged aperture where the window had blown out , but the electricity and lightning seemed to have gone . |
| 23 | Winds of a hundred miles an hour or more roared and whistled round the isolated house on the cliffs , tearing at window catches , rattling doors . |
| 24 | ( The Beans always came and went through the kitchen . ) |
| 25 | I still re-read and enjoy Beyond a Boundary , finding something new , often appreciating a passage that had passed my by earlier . |
| 26 | As she turned into the lane leading to the village , she gradually slowed and came to a halt as she saw Leo descend from the local bus . |
| 27 | I arrived in the vastness of a new country as what I thought a tabula rasa but there was writing underneath , the coded determinants of what I was and always would be inscribed in ( what shall we say ? ) acetic acid or lemon juice which gradually browned and showed in the revealing action of sunlight . |
| 28 | At the age of 30 , she still looked and behaved like a teenager . |
| 29 | He had completed another revolution of the prescribed path , and the man still stood and stared at the fences , and his shoulders were not hunched as if the cold no longer concerned him . |
| 30 | The stomach now appears more distended when compared with the fasted sequence and powerful pyloric contraction can be seen ( arrowed ) . |