Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 2 | And at that moment Madge Grimsilk gave a gentle hiccough and passed out cold upon the floor . |
| 3 | He hung in the air for a moment , then kicked again , tuck-rolled , and came out level with the combat-master 's waist . |
| 4 | I was running well until I felt a twinge in my hamstring and pulled up short of the finish line . |
| 5 | He took off the hired robe and lay down naked on the bench . |
| 6 | One might go on in that vein to explain that occasional ‘ wrecks ’ of birds occur ( to use the ornithologists ' term ) , where huge numbers of birds are driven off course by a storm , and end up scattered over the land in an exhausted state . |
| 7 | He played his best shot of the round , a long , low 3-wood , which landed short of the slope at the front of the platform green and ran up level with the flag . |
| 8 | They have allowed their care in the community policy for ex-mental patients to amount to no more than people drifting within a community of hostels , in which one finds people who have fallen through the safety net and ended up homeless on the streets . |
| 9 | The other man nose first was sliding down towards him , and ended up nose-to-nose with the other man , |
| 10 | His running tore QPR to shreds and he took a Waddle ball after 30 minutes to go down the left and set up Bright for a virtual tap in , his eighth goal in 14 games . |
| 11 | Why , you , he goes home and comes back full of the Scottish accent . |
| 12 | Strach was in good form , but went off injured in the second half , possibly as a result of Curle doing a fine impression of a large concrete block at him ( for which he was booked ) . |