Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | would virtually take over completely , the section Cricket Green — Fair Green — Tooting Junction , providing the cars and crews that worked over it as part of a through service from a central London terminus . |
| 2 | There remained only a narrow gauge track , reminiscent of an Emmett railway and called the Meusien , that was designed to supply the wants of a peacetime garrison , and the second-class road that ran alongside it for some fifty miles from Barle-Due . |
| 3 | l he vehicles entered the western end of this northern bay , and the coach body was lifted off its bogies and placed on moving carriers , the wheels removed from the bogies , the bogies then also placed on carriers parallel with its body and moved alongside it through the shop at the same pace , that of one vehicle every forty minutes . |
| 4 | Weber scurried to the ship 's blower , and shouted down it in fury , while Katze knelt below the shattered windowpane and took potshots at the dock with his Luger . |
| 5 | The cottage lay back quite a long way from the path , but Virginia slowed down and stepped past it with quick , light steps . |
| 6 | U-boat alley was the gap in mid-Atlantic where they did n't have air cover from Britain or Canada , but Preston always imagined it a bit like the alley at the back of their houses with a U-boat at each end firing torpedoes at Grandad as he hopped and scuttled down it on his way to the Turk 's Head . |
| 7 | Mr Yarrow tugged a long card-index box across the desk and set about it with a bespittled finger . |
| 8 | They aimed to reduce the source , and set about it by draining and filling-in pools and lakes . |