Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The chapel at St Mary 's Priory of the Little Sisters of Pity was cold and damp and smelled of candlegrease and incense . |
| 32 | When they got to the edge of the grass , Aziz turned and leered at Maisie and Robert . |
| 33 | She slipped the key into the lock and was about to turn it when she looked down and realised with surprise that the door was open . |
| 34 | She looked at her watch and realised with disappointment that it was much earlier than she had expected . |
| 35 | Etching vessels should be shallow , tightly-closing and made of polythene or similar soft plastic . |
| 36 | The table he sat at was circular and made of pine or what Hilbert and Adam 's father had called deal . |
| 37 | And as soon as I got a little older , I tell you , they 'd sell a horse , and my father hopped on the bike , come over to the school and got me out ; and I come home here , hopped on the old horse 's back and rode to Yarmouth or Norwich , wherever they sold it . |
| 38 | They bought the finest Italian suits and rode on Vespas and Lambrettas . |
| 39 | Rescuers , working in stifling temperatures in a space no bigger than three feet wide and two feet high , reached through a small hole they had dug to the men at 9.30pm and passed through drinks and sandwiches . |
| 40 | Thereafter , clause 54 was not the subject of further debate and passed into law as it now stands as section 63 of the Act . |
| 41 | Harriet got a job as a dentist 's receptionist and lived on lentils and poached eggs in a hostel until the dentist asked her to marry him . |
| 42 | He was released in 1900 and lived in Paris and London , where he met Trotsky , but he went to Switzerland where he was contacted by the German government and smuggled back into Russia , in 1917 , to lead the Bolshevik Revolution . |
| 43 | ‘ My members swore allegiance to the Queen and fought for Queen and country . |
| 44 | The tyres screamed and fought for grip and then the whole car did a little wiggle like the backside of a pouncing cat and stormed on , back in the direction from which it had come . |
| 45 | We saw less and less of each other and fought like tigers when we did spend time together . |
| 46 | She undressed and got into bed and sat up with her cocoa mug , sipping at it . |
| 47 | Mr Fuller , who had been married three times , dealt in second-hand cars and dabbled in property and building . |
| 48 | Seeing he was rooted to the spot , she swept out proudly — and bumped into Rizzi and Katarina . |
| 49 | Dermot and Fergal gave a great whoop and rose with Mike and Patsy . |
| 50 | These assumptions and the mathematical formula used to calculate the volume have been described and validated by Everson and colleagues . |
| 51 | They preferred sparse and unadorned church interiors , and objected to pictures and statues on the grounds that they encouraged the worship of images . |
| 52 | For 48 hours he strutted and gloated in headlines that spread 3000 miles from Canada 's Pacific to Atlantic coast : ‘ Canadian hero sprints to gold ’ . |
| 53 | She went to Limerick , was imprisoned , and moved to Cork and Kinsail gaols before being released and banished . |
| 54 | The mill at Kilchoman is of particular interest being constructed from corrugated iron sheets and was erected first at Craigens farm and moved to Kilchoman when the farmer who owned it went there . |
| 55 | It was noted in the Faroes ( where the oystercatcher is the national bird ) , in Scotland , where the birds began to penetrate inland up the river valleys , and in Shetland , where they forsook the shingle beaches and moved to fields and even up on the heather hills . |
| 56 | MacGregor was born in Glasgow in 1937 and moved to Shotts when his father became a doctor there . |
| 57 | Smaller pots can be planted with single specimens to flower for months , or to be concealed and moved into place as they approach their best . |
| 58 | Although booted and plastered with mud and out of temper with herself and with him , she deposited him at the drawbridge of Sigouri in just over an hour . |
| 59 | In the same year I was elected as president of the Junior Common Room , and presided at debates and business sessions of the student body . |
| 60 | — Kolestral-Super is put directly on the hair and massaged with softness and gentleness . |