Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorton swept the coins together and crammed them into the box . |
| 2 | Instead , resting his elbows on his papers , he laced his fingers together and regarded her over them . |
| 3 | Couville tapped his fingers together and narrowed his eyes . |
| 4 | Burger put the tips of his fingers together and considered what he would say . |
| 5 | Parties , in many respects , were no longer taken seriously by the voters ; many more people now disavowed parties altogether and declared themselves to be independents . |
| 6 | Arty opened his eyes slowly and inclined his head towards a notice on the door — a notice he had put there himself . |
| 7 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |
| 8 | They were side by side , and she rolled on to her back , arched herself to receive him as she stretched her legs outwards and clasped them round him . |
| 9 | But she pressed her lips together and kept it in . |
| 10 | She put her lips together and blew him the tiniest of kisses . |
| 11 | His arms went round her and his lips found hers , and this time when the world fell apart and the sky came crashing down , she clamped her lips together and buried her face in his shoulder and said nothing . |
| 12 | Xanthe pressed her lips together and stuck her chin up in a pose . |
| 13 | He saw Agnes fold her lips together and put her attention back on her pastry . |
| 14 | Still was n't enough goals though even if Poland had beaten Holland , England still would n't have qualified because they needed , because er the opposition got a goal , they need to be , they had to win by seven clear goals so that meant they had to win eight one , not seven one , you see . |
| 15 | Was it a two-way respect — had the two got their heads together and decided it might be beneficial to Travis to send him out of the country for a short while ? |
| 16 | Chatterton pulled their legs slightly and said they had better be careful not to get on the wrong side of you again and Glastonbury did n't know what the hell anyone was talking about . |
| 17 | The decision lifts restrictions that were placed by the court on the tiny company several months ago that forbade it from distributing advance copies of BSD/386 code for beta testing , or production software . |
| 18 | It was just four months ago that met my first contras face to face . |
| 19 | ‘ She came here about three months ago and made your acquaintance , did n't she ? ’ |
| 20 | Supermarket chain Gateway Foodmarkets announced it was switching its 1,100 cars to diesel six months ago and said it expected to save around £400,000 a year on fuel alone . |
| 21 | I 'll never forget when he came home one night a few months ago and said he 'd met this old man who could tell fortunes by reading the dregs in the bottom of a beer glass . |
| 22 | He had a very bad car accident a few months ago and shattered his kneecap . |
| 23 | He came and put his arm round my shoulders then and led me gently towards the door . |
| 24 | His words faded , and he put his hands on her shoulders again and turned her face him , holding her gaze by the sheer power of his will until , steeled and strengthened by her desperate need to break the spell , Merrill wrenched herself away to open the car door . |
| 25 | Then : ‘ Krieg ist Krieg , ’ and he shrugged his shoulders again and opened his hands . |
| 26 | She dared to open her eyes again and found him still there , close to her . |
| 27 | As he took up his school books again and moved them into his bedroom , he wondered if his father had told his mother about his leaving school . |
| 28 | Taczek hoisted his spectacles again and revealed his row of cone-like teeth . |
| 29 | He held the glass to her lips again and watched her while she drank . |
| 30 | He shut his eyes tight and locked his fists around the joystick . |