Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [coord] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roar of the crackling fire drew near and doom seemed inevitable . |
| 2 | put them in the " recovery position " ( i.e. on the floor , face down , but with head bent back and face tilted down , making sure they can breathe easily ) ; — call a doctor or ambulance immediately ; — if you can , give details of the drug taken when you phone ; — ask the ambulance operator if there is any first aid you can give ; — stay with them , until help comes ; — give them nothing to eat or drink . |
| 3 | An authoritative denial of the Donaldson item came in and Rain passed it to Holly who regretted believing the man or the MacQuillans who had pushed her into writing it . |
| 4 | They did not make any hurry about it and Balor writhed and flailed helplessly and blood began to run out on to the ground beneath him . |
| 5 | It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said |
| 6 | As a student I admired Bratby , Prunella Clough and the Kitchen Sink School , but somehow it all fizzled out and abstraction took over . |
| 7 | He put in a superb second half , scored twice and Palace had to come home defeated by 2–3 . |
| 8 | Money poured in and work began in 1493 although it was to be a century before the work was completed ; this timescale explains the stylistic variation of the church , with elements of both Renaissance and Baroque architecture . |
| 9 | And by dusk were back in autumn ; it seemed sensible to make camp in this gentler landscape , but during the night an odd wind fetched up and snow fell , followed by an appallingly humid heat . |
| 10 | Zara the kestrel , sitting on my glove with wings held out , tail fanned out and head bent down in typical hovering pose — she suspects I have food somewhere . |
| 11 | The fellow 's mouth opened slackly and fear flared in his eyes . |
| 12 | In short , I entered complementary medicine 's cloud cuckoo land where the sun shone everlastingly and love oozed from every portal . |
| 13 | She sometimes felt that were Scott not sitting at the studio news desk , face made up and hair sprayed , ready to roll and clearly in control — why , then the news might never happen . |
| 14 | Subsequently , the land sank again , seas flooded back and deposition restarted . |
| 15 | By the end of the first century all the tribal capitals had their gridded street plan laid out and work had started on the public buildings . |
| 16 | The handbook says this represents a JTM45 on ‘ 6 ’ but I thought Gary 's was nailed on ‘ 10 ’ and with a Guv'nor pedal super-glued in and gaffer taped ‘ on ’ ! |
| 17 | Undercarriage damaged , wings broke away and pilot sustained minor injuries . |
| 18 | Then , as time went on and hypnosis gained credibility and was thought of as more than just a form of stage entertainment , more and more hypnotherapists began to use present-life regression in their work . |
| 19 | And then it went on and Tug stopped thinking about the quality of the sound . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) It is not disputed that the debenture , including the fixed and floating charge created by it , is to be construed according to English law which draws no distinction , in the case of an English company at least , between property located within and property located outside the United Kingdom : see In re The Anchor Line ( Henderson Brothers ) Ltd. [ 1937 ] Ch. 483 , 487 , 488 . |
| 21 | Theirs went down but mine went up . |
| 22 | Does the Minister know that while the number of jobs went down and unemployment went up , crime in the county of Leicestershire rose by more than one third over the past 12 months , nearly double the national rate , but the chief constable has said that in the next year the force can spend £1 million less ? |
| 23 | Unemployment went up and investment came down . |
| 24 | He was a crew-cut Harvard man with sleeves rolled up and collar buttoned down . |
| 25 | Bernard looked up and Apricot made a dive to undo his zip . |
| 26 | The opposite view is expressed by Arthur Andersen , which would like to see the supervisory function of NEDs spelled out and encouragement given to experimentation with alternative forms of corporate governance , including two-tier boards . |
| 27 | Panic struck the New York stock market , share values fell dramatically and Hoover found himself presiding over the worst economic depression in the history of the USA . |
| 28 | Several people in the bar looked around and Knocker moved closer to the bar flap . |
| 29 | And er you all you always went round the boulevard to another road , another street went there and Street went down here . |
| 30 | Subscriptions fell steadily and expenditure fell even more sharply with the reduction of salaries and the suspension of propaganda , so that most local parties ended the war with a substantial profit ; but this concealed a real weakness , for expenditure could be revived by a single decision , while income could only be revived by many years of patient work . |