Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] [noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Maude came in and Cranston looked at her , hang-dog , for even in bed his tourney of love was failing .
3 and Peter walks in and Andrew said to him do you want a coffee Peter ?
4 And the man was er , accepted Christ as his saviour and they went down and Philip baptized in there , in in in the river .
5 He banged the phone down and Jinny turned to Keith , shaking .
6 The first storeys of the house of cards came tumbling down and Victoria burst into tears .
7 Then the front door was smashed down and people streamed into the house .
8 Steve Mardenborough then broke through with a clear run on goal just before the whistle , but his control let him down and Adkins saved at his feet .
9 I slowed down and children ran beside the car , a flock of skinny white birds , hopping and shouting .
10 ‘ The race was really lost at the start when I got bogged down and Andretti went into the back of me .
11 Denis dutifully bent down and Clara climbed on his back putting her little arms round his neck .
12 He could only imagine girls in the evening when they all walked along and Marie stopped in front of a shop window to see that her clothes and hair were as she wanted and they all came up behind her and did the same so they were like a group photograph on a record sleeve , wiggling their fingers and poking out their tongues and saying ‘ Yoo-hoo ’ to their reflections .
13 Willsford and Golden Minstrel continued to take the field along until Hotplate jumped to the front at the 21st , the fence before Becher 's on the second circuit .
14 One patch is even rougher than the rest : the landscaped relic of a bulldozed block , which had to come down because sewage erupted into the sinks and lavatories .
15 Dean Martin , Sammy Cahn and Tony tried to calm her down while Sinatra reached for his car radio and called for the police and an ambulance .
16 But she picked the bag up and staggered along while Nick skipped beside her , jumping the sleepers .
17 The planning application was turned down after residents complained about the probability of noise , smoke and smell from standing locomotives in the platform .
18 Time seemed to slow down as Christine fell into the executive transporter bay .
19 He fired twice and Julie threw herself down as bullets ploughed into the kitchen table .
20 Graham 's first touch let him down as Boro waited for offside and Stephen Pears was able to smother the ball .
21 Celtic 's world , though , suddenly caved in as Borussia struck with two goals in the space of five minutes .
22 Notts County about to cave in as Town went for the kill .
23 It was the man who had first joined in when Clive started on Nina .
24 Her gown was almost wet through and water dripped from her long hair to the floor .
25 But it was a night when emotion alone could not carry them through and Souness watched in frustration as his young side 's Cup Winners ' Cup ambitions were ended with ruthless efficiency by the Russian champions .
26 The transfer fell through and Charlie returned to the Scottish Premier League to play for Aberdeen .
27 Someone fell over and others collapsed on top .
28 A chair went over and Singer rolled through the mush of food , trying to gain his feet .
29 The long summer holidays are over and MPs returned to the Commons to take stock of developments while they were at the seaside .
30 Moxon lost Simon Kellett to a skier to mid-on at 45 in the tenth over and Moxon fell at 95 to a mistimed sweep against off-spinner Harvey Trump .
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