Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [coord] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cut 4cm ( 1½inches ) off the ends of two of the rectangular cakes and sandwich all four cakes together with some of the buttercream , the shorter ones on top , centred widthways but aligned at one end . |
| 2 | He says the men got out , produced firearms and went to a picnic area . |
| 3 | Christopher Appleton , 18 , of Highmoor Road , Darlington , admitted burglary and asked for two offences to be considered . |
| 4 | The priests had followed one of two paths : those who took the full vows of celibacy and poverty provided the staff at the houses dedicated to training the young priests ; and those who , after their training , became associates and went into the parishes , to all intents and purposes no different from priests trained elsewhere . |
| 5 | Hari made tea and sat at the table , her hands curled around the warmth of the cup . |
| 6 | They vowed his form would improve if he quit Arsenal and returned to Glasgow . |
| 7 | This system was subsequently adopted as standard in UK registered aircraft and came to be known as the ‘ hot mike ’ system . |
| 8 | We all read books and passed on what we learnt to the others . |
| 9 | In the early Fifties she decided to branch out on her own ; she moved west and drove with her two children across America to Los Angeles , where she became a secretary in an aircraft factory and later a fashion buyer at J.C . |
| 10 | He therefore changed direction and went along the wharf . |
| 11 | Edward drew rein and waited for him to catch up — their uncle having ridden back along the line to urge the stragglers to greater effort . |
| 12 | Here , in a series of wrecked sheds , men mended cars or sat on old tyres , smoking . |
| 13 | He stopped work and sued for the money he alleged to be owing . |
| 14 | She wore it a couple of times , then her husband changed allegiance and went to another make of vintage car ! |
| 15 | Like the documents issuing from central Government it listed aims and pointed to the importance of linking teaching to exploration and experience as a means of helping young people ‘ know the real world ’ . |
| 16 | But then the exhibit , the quarrel , hateful and confusing in being exposed to other eyes , changed character and became after all , evidence for the defence . |
| 17 | We watched windsurfers and waterskiers racing through the water ( and falling over ! ) , while the children built sandcastles and paddled at the water 's edge . |
| 18 | Shortly after it was purchased , the boat caught fire and sank off Dungeness . |
| 19 | In addition , the Soviet submarine Komsomolets , which caught fire and sank in the Barents Sea in 1989 , is known to contain two smashed nuclear warheads . |
| 20 | Abstractedly he fastened buttons and tucked in his shirt . |
| 21 | He quit AD and moved to Hanover Square . |
| 22 | Out of school , he read poetry and drew with chalks on the pavements of the East End . |
| 23 | Another day we hired bikes and rode through the forests , seeing the Blue Lake and the Green Lake , and William and I went to Buried Village ( where we found a nice cafe with a superb carrot cake , for which I got the recipe ) . |
| 24 | Jay played Satie and waited for when Lucy would stop shaking . |
| 25 | He went very willingly to watch Everton Football Club , and to the Parish Club where they played billiards and practised with dumbbells and a punchball , and to greyhound racing . |
| 26 | A notable illustration of this complexity even among hard-core racists was the NF official who pointed out that he had been elected by both black and white work mates , despite his well-known NF affiliation , because he fought equally hard for blacks and whites ; he claimed a liking for blacks and maintained that he played football and drank with them , although politically he supported repatriation . |
| 27 | Rob Madgwick dispossessed Wright and fired in a shot that was well saved by Stuart Burt . |
| 28 | Yet all the most unspeakably wicked men in the world , who caused havoc and lurked in dim places ready to pounce again , came surging into her mind . |
| 29 | The Government 's ill-considered attempt to prepare the populace for civil defence in the face of nuclear attack , in the pamphlet Protect and Survive , provoked derision and added to the level of anxiety . |
| 30 | I then learnt yoga and trained as a teacher . |