Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [vb past] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The servant fought his way clear and delivered their drinks ; George grunted , Agnes smiled and shifted carefully on the sofa . |
| 2 | She hopped clear and opened her wings and in one sudden jump was up on the bare branch . |
| 3 | As the crowds listened to Christ 's unconventional preaching and observed his miracles they acknowledged him as sent from God . |
| 4 | But it went horribly wrong and ruined his hopes of finishing anywhere better than third . |
| 5 | She told Newsweek magazine that Mia , Allen 's lover for 12 years , was hot-tempered and terrified her children . |
| 6 | Both were boys of 8 years old and had their imaginations fired by Perry Mason , a fictional TV lawyer who helped the poor . |
| 7 | Tundrish clenched and unclenched his fists , causing the bones to crackle . |
| 8 | Peacock clasped and unclasped and reclasped his hands in an embarrassment of humility and candour . |
| 9 | She felt pressured and persuaded her clients to sell out of stocks they 'd picked up from various licensed dealers . |
| 10 | Menzies stood up very straight and arranged his clothes . |
| 11 | She took all the bones out of his spinal column and compressed them to nothing , she turned his eyeballs inward , she jellied his legs , she unplugged and rewired his guts . |
| 12 | She kicked off her slip-on shoes , unbuckled and unzipped her jeans , and pushed them and her pants rapidly to the floor , where she stepped out of them . |
| 13 | His hands , which were apprenticed to the same mystery , arched and spread their fingers before him in air , involuntarily reproducing the tension and precision of the vaulting . |
| 14 | We were also glad to report that the lease holders at the time found that it was n't profitable and relinquished their rights . |
| 15 | She felt hot and sticky and changed her clothes and put on a housecoat . |
| 16 | I mean , what I want is that she shouts and I shout and she shouts back , then I say I 'm sorry and put my arms round her , then we kiss and make love maybe , and in the end we 're both real people again . |
| 17 | Van Gelder broke off to accept a sheet of paper from a seaman who had appeared in the doorway , glanced briefly at the message and handed it without a word to Talbot , who read it in turn , muttered something inaudible and swung his legs to the deck . |
| 18 | He felt weak and drew his knees up to his chest to contain his body warmth . |
| 19 | Both parents got very emotional and threw their arms around her , although she had never felt they were very close before . |
| 20 | He turned her hand over , palm uppermost , and she could n't help noticing how strong and tanned his fingers were in contrast to her own . |
| 21 | Victor Frankl wrote of a survey which was conducted on a large number of Harvard University graduates who were very dissatisfied and regarded their lives as meaningless despite the high material success of their work . |
| 22 | That we used to walk home from school at one p.m. in the burning sun and play barefoot in grass that was dry and scratched our calves . |
| 23 | On a sob Ruth swallowed hard and closed her eyes to the burning sun overhead . |
| 24 | He swallowed hard and tore his eyes from the girl . |
| 25 | Opening the debate yesterday , Lord Mackay said the bill 's key aims were to ensure a voice for the users of legal services , and to make sure that decision-takers on legal services were answerable and took their decisions with the benefit of full and considered advice . |
| 26 | Lords at one end , a working class hero at the other , and in between an encounter with the history which linked and divided their fortunes — that , surely , is a walk with a theme to remember . |
| 27 | When most public relations was writing press releases and liaising with the media , this experience was invaluable , but as public relations has become more sophisticated and developed its skills and functions , so a journalism background has become less important . |
| 28 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 29 | The nervous horse rolled its eyes white and flicked its ears towards the crackling sound of the muskets . |
| 30 | Odysseus met with them in the wine-dark sea of the Mediterranean and called them Cyclops , Scylla and Charybdis . |