Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 2 | By way of preparation for this Friday the 13th escapade somebody handed over A Dictionary of Superstitions , which is not the sort of inspiration one needs . |
| 3 | Consider the implications of : Do we really want to know who put up the poster ? |
| 4 | When one cooled she picked up the other and spat to test it . |
| 5 | Oh well we d did n't know if we were supposed to be congregating with rest of the people , or what so we just wandered we wandered down the hall |
| 6 | ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Some say they brought back the wrong ashes , and that is n't Yeats there at all . |
| 8 | How he used it opened up a new realm for investigation . |
| 9 | ‘ The Headmaster wants it moved along a little . |
| 10 | Deliberately , Madeleine had selected a dress to wear which buttoned down the front to the waist . |
| 11 | If anyone had seen me bent over a motorbike with my ear pressed to the back of a Transit van outside the Barbican that morning , probably nobody would have looked twice . |
| 12 | mind you for yea , when old Charles 's said we crawled out the sea |
| 13 | The girl who was dressing her pulled up the zipper while Paula kicked off a pair of black suede shoes and eased her feet into crocodile ones . |
| 14 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 15 | You ca n't escape the noise in these thin little flats , so maybe he 's lying in bed , staring in the dark , listening to the personal stereo I told him fell off a lorry last Christmas , letting reggae drown the sound of grown-ups talking . |
| 16 | The BIL says he worked out a Paul Daniels routine to deal with all the people who came in complaining about it ( count to three — say the magic word — now look in your wallet ) . |
| 17 | He says he found out the calves ' tongues were grey and pink . |
| 18 | They took her to her stall in the market , demanding she handed over the arms and propaganda they accused her of storing there . |
| 19 | Now there is a waiting list of would-be residents for vacancies in existing houses or in new ones , and parents in Providence , Rhode Island , have asked the Wizanskys to help them set up a similar scheme . |
| 20 | When I arrive on Saturday morning , the people are all there , waiting to help me set up the table , making up kits , giving out leaflets . ’ |
| 21 | Please could you give me some information to help me set up the tank for coldwater fish , such as filtration , lighting , decor and stocking ? , . |
| 22 | Observers of the seven-month trial are left wondering who edited out the intrigue . |
| 23 | And er Hannah 's going we started off the conversation where was the perviest you 've ever had one I mean , knowing that I did n't have one , ever had one before and that was Mark , feeble attempt that lasted about ten minutes |
| 24 | When we arrived we sought out the ‘ dug out ’ . |
| 25 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 26 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
| 27 | As it happened he pulled up a shattered Kersil seven from home . |
| 28 | Mr Suharto has been tempting it back into his orbit by , for example , encouraging a Chinese business group to help it set up a bank , thus giving the NU 's members a useful stake in the economic largesse that the government can dispense . |
| 29 | While waiting he brought out a penknife and began whittling away a table-top . |
| 30 | Every area you look at South Africa in a report I gave to the Norwegian government which they commissioned we pointed out every area is like a major disaster area as if you 've been hit by an earthquake in every area of human activity and that situation needs something like a martial plan if we are , a martial aid plan , if we 're to address it but in the world we live in there 's no prospect of such assistance coming to Southern Africa . |