Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [coord] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay in the tent and listened to the wind outside . |
| 2 | Charlie marched into the tent and came to a halt in front of the colonel 's desk . |
| 3 | I dived back into the tent and scrambled into my sweater and shoes . |
| 4 | This material is largely undated , although it is clear that occupation along Ermine Street pre-dated the defences and continued with little or no change well into the fourth century . |
| 5 | There are presently around 600 active volcanoes on the continents or exposed above the sea as islands . |
| 6 | Emerging in the darkness , I vaulted the chain-link fence surrounding the park and ran through the high grass into the trees . |
| 7 | So he walked to the park and sat on the park bench and let his thoughts pass through his head . |
| 8 | I should have seized the opportunity and said to Una Stubbs , ‘ Here 's your next title , A Farewell to Arms . ’ |
| 9 | Whitlock left the suite and knocked on the adjoining door . |
| 10 | He jumped , across the gully and looked under the car . |
| 11 | A faint smile crossed her face , but she remained silent until they had descended the stairway and stood at the entrance to the great hall . |
| 12 | In 1935 they were summoned to Moscow by the Comintern and in April 1937 Neumann was arrested by the NKVD and disappeared for ever . |
| 13 | It was bulky and rotund at the base and tapered into slender points at the top . |
| 14 | Cypriot coffee is made individually in small , long-handled pots which are wide at the base and tapered at the top . |
| 15 | Paul 's promise of variety was soon fulfilled as we turned off the ridge and headed into a forest of fir trees . |
| 16 | Commentators noted that the anti-government activity was now coming from young people with no direct experience of the events of the mid-1970s and pointed to youth unemployment and associated social problems as an element in the agitation . |
| 17 | She sat on the hard hall-stool beside the telephone , safe in the semi-darkness and waited for Dorothea and her friend Florence Ames who was a nurse , someone who would recognise her condition instantly , who would be on hand should emergency treatment be required , who was trained and capable . |
| 18 | One was lying on his back on the stretcher and appeared to be badly wounded . |
| 19 | Mitchell trained as a journalist on The Scotsman and worked for the Scottish Tourist Board , Apex Publishing in Oman and British Gas Scotland before setting up Elliot Mitchell Communications , which later merged with Commpress . |
| 20 | but we obviously have to cut off at a certain time to er get the accounts and audited in time . |
| 21 | The loan was made prior to Mr Johnson 's appointment to the board and remained at £14,000 throughout the year . |
| 22 | Lane led Booz Allen 's Information Systems Group , served on the board and sat on the firm 's Executive Committee . |
| 23 | He pulled something partly out of the sack and seemed to be peering at it . |
| 24 | the sack and sank into a trench . |
| 25 | She prowled among the desks and glowered at the action boards as if they were a bunch of football hooligans . |
| 26 | The dog got over-excited and took exception to one of the chefs and had to be shut in the barn where he howled mournfully enough to wake the dead . |
| 27 | She left the towpath and advanced towards him , brushing her way through tall grasses , where bees buzzed somnolently and grasshoppers whirred their summer sounds . |
| 28 | The only break in his time at the store , also known as the Man 's Shop , came during the Second World War when he joined the RAF and served in the Middle East . |
| 29 | Then with a couple of brief nods at them both , he crossed the saloon and left through the other double doors . |
| 30 | Clarissa waved an arm round the Saloon and smiled at the Adjutant . |