Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WE met Therese and then unpacked and had tea . |
| 2 | Herskovitz created Thirtysomething and now knows exactly where the emotionally richest fault-lines of family relationships lie . |
| 3 | Deciding to cut my losses , I fled Ulm and promptly got lost in one of its industrial suburbs . |
| 4 | Cos the girl in the office went out and bought the lunch today did n't go out come in , phoned James and then started his second half of the day around some girls . |
| 5 | The fact that many more men resembled Dustin than ever resembled film stars like Cary Grant or Gary Cooper was irrelevant . |
| 6 | In other words , the Church recognised Constantine as successfully achieving what Jesus had signally failed to do . |
| 7 | French biologists ignored Darwin and only turned to a Lamarckian version of evolutionism in the 1880s . |
| 8 | The letters convinced Brutus that many more people opposed Brutus than actually did ! |
| 9 | At the end of August , the first German warplanes bombed Paris and also distributed leaflets warning Parisians to surrender : the Germans were at the gates . |
| 10 | The court distinguished Hughes but obviously doubted it . |
| 11 | Put it this way : it could be the new , reformulated Coca-Cola that almost destroyed a franchise , or the crystal clear Pepsi that created one . |
| 12 | Oldham 's joy was complete when , 10 minutes later , the effervescent Ritchie fed Irwin and then ran on to head home the full-back 's cross for his second goal and Oldham 's third . |
| 13 | " Matthew — " began Sara and then stopped and bit her lip . |
| 14 | In May UNITA not only recaptured Mavinga but also switched the focus of its campaign to its military base in Béu in the north-west near the border with Zaïre , from where it received major airlifts of US supplies and equipment . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's come , ’ breathed Vi and so disbelieving was she that she checked its very existence with the engine driver and his black-faced fireman . |
| 16 | Well , the immunologist from the clinic went in and evaluated Ron and basically told him that he had … that he was not going to live more than the most a few weeks , and he could have control over the time of his death if he wished , and that was his decision to make , and he should think about it and talk it over with me . |
| 17 | In 1987 , when hopes of a political settlement in Cambodia were raised , the People 's Committee ditched Marx and quickly moved into real estate , buying up all the villas in anticipation of a tourist boom . |
| 18 | I rang Danny and already checked so there is n't basically ! |
| 19 | still got Bill as previously arranged but we had to find somebody else for Jack . |
| 20 | They now moved back , in sympathy with the Japanese surrender , they moved back and the nationalists took Shanghai and really controlled the whole of , of south China again so that the , the old landlord system had been re-established . |
| 21 | They took Rye and then attacked Winchelsea , but found it heavily defended by the Abbot of Battle . |
| 22 | The Whites took Perm and then moved on Ekaterinberg . |
| 23 | It was significant that during a press conference called on 18 May 1960 Khrushchev not only denounced Eisenhower but also asserted the importance of the Cuban revolution , which had suddenly become the subject of enthusiastic and laudatory articles in the Soviet press . |
| 24 | ‘ No , ’ answered Raffaella and then went on to tell Julia with no self-consciousness at all that she became a prostitute in Rome , where the dollar-rich American soldiers were prepared to pay a small fortune to a good-looking , elegant girl . |
| 25 | Ellen was emphatic : — I could not take myself to a Foreign Land as you did Lily and never wanted such a thing and though you would be there that alone would in no way satisfy me and I should be afraid . |
| 26 | In keeping with Newman 's ‘ Two Roads ’ dictum , the party supported Jackson but also ran a presidential candidate in the general election — a black socialist-turned-NAP member , Dennis Serrette . |
| 27 | ‘ Everyone keeps disappearing , ’ said Scarlet and then wished she had n't . |
| 28 | Calvin left Geneva and only returned to lead the city when the city council asked him to return . |
| 29 | So Gharr no only had Mala but also knew our pod and had set a trap for me . |
| 30 | On leave in 1942 he married Sylvia and then spent three years overseas . |