Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [noun sg] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have seen me the week before ; and this time , have heard my arrival and tried to catch a glimpse of me — that explained the old man 's quick looks past me , and perhaps some of his nervous strangeness . |
| 2 | But then , if I had waited until you had your full wits about you , you might have realised my intention and signed the house over to your daughter and her bastard . ’ |
| 3 | This expedition began this morning almost an hour later than I had planned , despite my having completed my packing and loaded the ford with all necessary items well before eight o'clock . |
| 4 | I had forgotten my way and had to look all round me slowly until I recognized the street which I had used a hundred times before . |
| 5 | Stuart must have rung my boudoir and learned how the telephone is answered in about fifteen languages so far . |
| 6 | Hazel said she intended to spend her vouchers on items for her home and said : ‘ I am very pleased to reach this milestone because I have always enjoyed my work and have made a lot of good friends over the years . ’ |
| 7 | It was extremely effective , did n't pull any punches , but had caught my eye and made me think . |
| 8 | They have earned their freedom and do n't know how to spend it . |
| 9 | She seemed to have dropped her voice and moved in closer to the phone as if to avoid the chance of being overheard . |
| 10 | The Northern Echo revealed on Saturday that Darlington Wedding Cars had disconnected its phone and left no forwarding address . |
| 11 | The Northern Echo revealed on Saturday that the company had disconnected its phone and left no forwarding address . |
| 12 | From 1923 to 1925 the TUC had maintained a Joint Committee with it , but had discontinued its cooperation and attacked the Movement as Communist-dominated . |
| 13 | The girl had lifted her head and turned her face towards him , though he could not flatter himself that she was looking at him ; rather at the image he drew before her , that spare portrait of the departed visitant , sketched in so few lines on the firelit air . |
| 14 | Ace had n't consciously lifted her arm and fired the suit 's built-in blaster . |
| 15 | He simply looked startled — as if a worm had just lifted its head and answered him back , Carrie thought . |
| 16 | The most likely is that the ferret has somehow shed her muzzle and has then killed a rabbit . |
| 17 | She must have caught her heel and tripped , just rotten bad luck . |
| 18 | A veteran of Le Mans , he 's won his class and finished 5th overall in the past . |
| 19 | This is the moment when it comes into his mind to ask himself what he 's doing in this place ; to see the meaninglessness of his business there , and the hollowness of his enjoyments ; to lose sight suddenly of what it is in the texture of life that has ever occupied his attention and led him forward . |
| 20 | He tells us how he cried and cried when he found out the Almighty Mozzer had slung his hook and f—ed off home for a veggieburger . |
| 21 | Bernard Appel , chairman of Tandy Corp 's Radio Shack chain , has resigned his post and departs in June . |
| 22 | Robert himself , afflicted by leprosy , spent the last two years of his life in Cardross castle beside the Clyde , dying before he could learn that the Pope had lifted his excommunication and acknowledged him and his successors as rulers of Scotland . |
| 23 | She had lifted his hand and kissed it . |
| 24 | ‘ He hath unpacked his carriage and made it run a mile or two up and down in River 's great room , making it carry the fire shovel , tongs and poker . |
| 25 | He had discarded his uniform and wore his best suit , a light pearly grey , with a brightly-coloured necktie , and a rose in his buttonhole . |
| 26 | It was early still , but , while she had quite enjoyed his company and having someone else to converse with in her own language , an early night seemed quite a good idea . |
| 27 | You 've caught his interest and got him involved by deeds more than words . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought you 'd forgotten your coffee and had decided to go to bed instead , ’ he said , looking disapprovingly at her freshly done hair . |
| 29 | In practice it is extraordinarily difficult to tear ourselves away from that tiny part of the situation which has attracted our attention and aroused our emotions , in order to consider the whole . |
| 30 | Beyond this there was little of importance which she could tell and Dalgliesh had briefly heard her story and let her go . |