Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Right , and the background to that of course is , for those of you who may not know , Bullett was I suppose a more junior person in the State Department , when he went to Europe with Woodrow Wilson in nineteen eighteen , and nineteen whenever it was for a peace conference , and Bullett was the only one of the American delegation who resigned and confronted Wilson and said , look , you 've gone back on the fourteen points , you 're not doing what you said you would do . |
| 32 | The driver took the road carefully as it dipped and turned , and forded rivers that shone like a newly tarred road and roared and pounded against the floor . |
| 33 | In a typically Chinese way , when I was discharged , the doctor who had treated me escorted me to the car , and shook hands and asked if I had any complaints , as he knew the hospital left plenty of room for improvement . |
| 34 | Each year group described a recent trip and showed photos and work they had done . |
| 35 | If it had been grey and raining and chilly he might have taken one look at Wyvis Hall and turned tail and fled to Crete or Delos or somewhere . |
| 36 | Jimmy pulled away again and joined Gilbert and Frye at the windows . |
| 37 | Similarly , one would like to see a state of affairs in which many more people read and enjoyed poetry than had taken a degree in it . |
| 38 | Charles unbuckled his ski straps and stuck skis and sticks in the snow beside Peregrine 's . |
| 39 | And in that flare and roar of lightning , Cardiff saw a hideous face straining to look directly at him as huge and ravaged claws that had once been hands thrashed inwards on the brick face of the basement , seeking purchase . |
| 40 | We must therefore keep tight control on stocks of both raw materials and finished products and ensure that our customers pay us on time . |
| 41 | The fellow looked furtively round , licked his lips , and beckoned Corbett and Ranulf into a shadowy window recess . |
| 42 | As a young boy , he planted and harvested rice and tended the family 's water buffalo and other domestic animals . |
| 43 | He was sent off and fined £10 and banned for one game . |
| 44 | They whooped and abused passers-by and fired water-pistols . |
| 45 | She bent and kissed Dionne and slammed out of the flat . |
| 46 | The unimaginable heat and weight of Fenna had pressed the ooze in the cave , pressed so hotly and heavily that the molecules of mud were squeezed apart , breaking up into carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms , and his weight had compressed the carbon atoms into diamond crystals , and more and more diamonds until his hoard was a lure to garish youths , who had toiled up to his cave and exchanged riddles and blows with him , but when he had fixed them with his ancient evil little eyes , they retreated abashed to sing his praises . |
| 47 | Then he had some caviar and rang Italy and said , ‘ Sophia , this play I sent that Marlon 's going to do , he only wants to do it with you . |
| 48 | When it seemed to be over , I went next door and called Fielding and asked him to give me an incredible amount of money . |
| 49 | She leaned against Hepzibah 's knee and watched Albert and wondered what he was plotting . |
| 50 | Pat was a big man and grabbed Sean and bundled him over the couch and into the laps of Mrs Kelly and Mrs Quinn who screamed blue murder . |
| 51 | Where there had been one figure faintly outlined in the frame of the staging there were now two — one large , obviously Jotan , and one much smaller , a child Alexei thought until he saw the muscular build and shortened legs and realised that Jotan had caught a dwarf . |
| 52 | After the W.R.N.S. Christina Muir ( Mrs Bewley ) travelled in Africa and worked injournalism and publishing before her marriage . |
| 53 | I got drunk and dialled Hire-A-Heap and rented a scarred Boomerang on a budget four-day buy . |
| 54 | Brian , a golfer from London , acted as an information service from his giant glass office and handled enquiries that included requests for medical preparations of all kinds . |
| 55 | Aspects of the ‘ crisis ’ , such as the separation of children from their family homes , worried and frightened them , and the possibility that the doctors were wrong brought welcome relief from the pain of child sexual abuse and precipitated denial and anger in the community . |
| 56 | And yet ‘ Southyork ’ is still guarded by 16 police — costing the local taxpayers £350,000 a year — and kept spick and span by a full team of servants . |
| 57 | The motives and felt obligations that lie behind such giving are complex ( Finch , 1987 ; Lewis and Meredith , 1988 ) . |
| 58 | They were all the thwarted ambitions , evil intentions , bitter memories , crushed hopes and suppressed lusts that had emanated from human hearts since life began , and which now invisibly thronged the air . |
| 59 | Then he looked in the pram and saw Steffine and put the knife on her face . |
| 60 | Some Libyans were afraid of secret police , and took precautions when criticizing the government in private conversation , for example when talking to an anthropologist . |