Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [coord] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher Appleton , 18 , of Highmoor Road , Darlington , admitted burglary and asked for two offences to be considered . |
| 2 | Hari made tea and sat at the table , her hands curled around the warmth of the cup . |
| 3 | The bear suddenly stopped eating and glared at the knight , its small , piggy eyes red with hatred . |
| 4 | ( Although both of the Marcoses had been indicted in October 1988 , Ferdinand was judged too ill to stand trial and died in Hawaii in September 1989 . ) |
| 5 | In the early Fifties she decided to branch out on her own ; she moved west and drove with her two children across America to Los Angeles , where she became a secretary in an aircraft factory and later a fashion buyer at J.C . |
| 6 | He therefore changed direction and went along the wharf . |
| 7 | Edward drew rein and waited for him to catch up — their uncle having ridden back along the line to urge the stragglers to greater effort . |
| 8 | She admitted four charges of making a false representation to obtain benefit and asked for 18 others to be taken into consideration . |
| 9 | It sailed out of the horizontally opening window and fell on the bowler hat of a ratepayer on the street underneath . |
| 10 | He stopped work and sued for the money he alleged to be owing . |
| 11 | That one would be thankful of the fact that Christ has spoke and talked about life . |
| 12 | She wore it a couple of times , then her husband changed allegiance and went to another make of vintage car ! |
| 13 | But then the exhibit , the quarrel , hateful and confusing in being exposed to other eyes , changed character and became after all , evidence for the defence . |
| 14 | Shortly after it was purchased , the boat caught fire and sank off Dungeness . |
| 15 | In addition , the Soviet submarine Komsomolets , which caught fire and sank in the Barents Sea in 1989 , is known to contain two smashed nuclear warheads . |
| 16 | I reached the Buck Inn just at opening time and stood by the fire steaming so much that two Swedish students got lost in the fog going to the gents . |
| 17 | He quit AD and moved to Hanover Square . |
| 18 | Out of school , he read poetry and drew with chalks on the pavements of the East End . |
| 19 | Efforts to improve matters by raising prices and reducing subsidies led to open resistance and had to be rescinded . |
| 20 | It was a phrase often used by her mother to describe women whose husbands had made money and moved to Edgbaston . |
| 21 | A notable illustration of this complexity even among hard-core racists was the NF official who pointed out that he had been elected by both black and white work mates , despite his well-known NF affiliation , because he fought equally hard for blacks and whites ; he claimed a liking for blacks and maintained that he played football and drank with them , although politically he supported repatriation . |
| 22 | They were causing distress and amounted to a nuisance . |
| 23 | Yet all the most unspeakably wicked men in the world , who caused havoc and lurked in dim places ready to pounce again , came surging into her mind . |
| 24 | The Government 's ill-considered attempt to prepare the populace for civil defence in the face of nuclear attack , in the pamphlet Protect and Survive , provoked derision and added to the level of anxiety . |
| 25 | I then learnt yoga and trained as a teacher . |
| 26 | When it rained they played squash or swam in the indoor pool . |
| 27 | Then he got pen and writing pad and sat at the table . |
| 28 | Then slowly she lifted head and looked at Matilda . |
| 29 | Gerald assumed control and looked through the papers while the others watched . |
| 30 | The driver managed to regain control and turned into Second Avenue . |