Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ROAD TO ELLING CHANGED CHARACTER dramatically at the place where it met the river and altered its course to follow that of the river . |
| 2 | The medics met the plane and gave him plasma etc right there in the radio room before transporting him to the hospital . |
| 3 | Although Elder is a distinguished Verdian , his conducting on the opening night lacked the flair that marked his performances of ENO 's previous production of Don Carlos back in the Seventies . |
| 4 | Whenever the chest was brought in by the Levites to the King 's officials and they saw that there was a large amount of money , the royal secretary and the officer of the chief priest came and emptied the chest and carried it back to its place . |
| 5 | Ross unlocked the bar and let it swing down . |
| 6 | An hour later he was awakened by Sunil , who unlocked the door and ushered him in apologetically . |
| 7 | He awkwardly unlocked the door and carried her to the sofa , laying her down as though she weighed nothing at all . |
| 8 | At the hotel Luke collected both keys from the night porter , and when they reached her room he unlocked the door and held it open for her , then closed it behind him . |
| 9 | I turned round to go , but things were blurring again and I misjudged the turn and banged my head against the edge of the door . |
| 10 | They sang songs like the birds and made shapes on the walls ; and though these could help them not at all , yet they passed the time and enabled them to tell themselves that they were splendid fellows , the very flower of Rabbitry , cleverer than magpies . |
| 11 | A Mattel Kriss-Kross mountain bike with stabilisers had caught his neck , when he looked up , and brought him to the ground yet it was the red and yellow tractor which applied the pressure that made his neck give way with an awful crack . |
| 12 | With clenched teeth , keeping her head low and her eyes half-closed , she hugged the cliff-face and inched her way along . |
| 13 | She turned away to strip the rumpled bed , then straightened the room and packed her few belongings in her bag , feeling more reluctant by the minute to face Penry in the cold light of day . |
| 14 | Using Wella 's High Hair Form & Finish Spray for extra hold , he pinned the hair and brushed it flat for a sophisticated Sixties style . |
| 15 | Before he reached the top , Delaney paused , and holding with his legs , unslung the Uzi and brought it to one-handed readiness . |
| 16 | Outside on the terrace , at the point from where Francis used to dive , and made the dive that killed him , I looked down into the moon-flecked pool . |
| 17 | As I made the turn and dive I realised that I had lost lateral control and the wing " roll and dive " was increasing alarmingly . |
| 18 | It turned out that he was the one who made the presentation and suggested we get out of it . |
| 19 | She made the coffee and brought it back to bed — a compromise . |
| 20 | You probably figured out by now that I 'm part of the team that made the game and to prove it is n't bugged I only have to quote some of Ian Osborne 's words : |
| 21 | There can only be one Creator , one God who made the earth and maintains it under divine control . |
| 22 | " God made the world and loves everyone everywhere . " |
| 23 | Right , if you 're ready , darling , we may as well be on our way and pay our respects to the lady who made the complaint and set her mind at rest . |
| 24 | By 1840 , Chalk 's son owned the mill and leased it to the cloth manufacturing partnership of Samuel Francis and A.M. Flint , who remained there until 1853 . |
| 25 | The assassins had walked in here as if they owned the place and destroyed everything . |
| 26 | Wilcox lowered the bonnet and pushed it shut with the palm of his hand . |
| 27 | Philpott lowered the newspaper and gave them a wry smile . |
| 28 | Finally he lowered the weapon and dropped it onto the bed beside him , then fumbled in the drawer again for the box of ammunition . |
| 29 | Only rumours of Sun Microsystems Inc not delivering its 40MHz Viking-based Sparcstation 10 Model 41s were circulating around Wall Street last week until Goldman Sachs lowered the boom and cut its estimate from $2.00 to $1.80 on Wednesday November 18 . |
| 30 | The girl rode the horse and liked it . |