Example sentences of "[noun sg] appeared and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Corporal appeared and beckoned me through to the kitchen ; he was taller and thinner than the other one and his arms were covered with rough tattoos executed in Indian ink ; on his right forearm were the words , ( My courage for my father , my heart for my mother , my prick for a whore ) . |
| 2 | ‘ Then suddenly the car appeared and swerved around the barrier , which was down and the warning lights were flashing . |
| 3 | And when my horse slipped and fell on the ice , a little figure appeared and insisted on helping me . |
| 4 | From the back of the hummock a figure appeared and began moving unhurriedly up the hill on an irregular route , at times coming obliquely towards the Friar , and then abruptly changing direction and seeming to go away from him : thus tacking and weaving the man was as inconspicuous as a partridge on ploughland , so that if the Friar turned his eyes from him for a moment he was difficult to rediscover , so perfectly did he merge with the duns , browns , russets , and half-greens of the wood . |
| 5 | The sun appeared and sparkled on the railway lines , wet after the recent April shower . |
| 6 | Presently a trooper appeared and translated , after a fashion , glaring hostilely at Biff . |
| 7 | Then the PR lady appeared and told us we should be playing more sing-along . |
| 8 | They were barely inside the front door when the elderly housekeeper appeared and told Cinzia that Signorina Cook had been looking for her . |
| 9 | He could n't answer , but the second-in-command at the place appeared and said ‘ Mrs Desai , I have some work for you . ’ |
| 10 | A round black head appeared and disappeared — a common seal . |
| 11 | Short-lived fascist organizations like the United Empire Fascist Party and the National Socialist Workers Movement appeared and disappeared in the 1930s . |
| 12 | He had no answer , but in the meantime the manager appeared and asked me to come into the office . |
| 13 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
| 14 | The words died on his lips as an enormous red-faced committee man appeared and blocked the door . |
| 15 | Just then a young man appeared and called me to follow him . |
| 16 | Six months into construction , officials from Sumatra Utara Provinces Electricity Board appeared and tried to halt the work . |
| 17 | We went astray once but a man on a mule appeared and redirected us , and a solitary house provided welcome tea . |
| 18 | Moments later , the midwife appeared and suggested that Mark get into the delivery room or he 'd miss the birth . |
| 19 | I made for the hotel 's main building with several other reporters when a man with an assault rifle appeared and said : ‘ Hit the floor . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I could n't understand why the front door would not open and this young fellow appeared and asked if I wanted any help . |
| 21 | Many of these have been published as national biographical repertories , but not all are complete ( that for France , for example , had reached the letter D when the first edition of this book appeared and has now , nineteen years later , almost completed G , Italy , in the same time , has got from B to C. Works for reference such as these form the scholarly end of a spectrum of contemporary works which runs at its other extreme into straightforward journalism . |
| 22 | At five am , the harassed doctor appeared and came towards them slowly . |
| 23 | Then a bird appeared and began to fly around her head , screaming , ‘ Egg thief ! |
| 24 | As we prepared to interview a council official about the decision to allow the festival to go ahead on an airfield near Stratford-upon-Avon , an angry resident appeared and launched a verbal onslaught . |
| 25 | She describes how a porpoise appeared and guided her so that she was being carried with the tide , and then helped her to a section of shallow water . |
| 26 | The final accolade came in Barnes ' closing speech , when he announced that never in his experience , ‘ and I think rarely if ever in anybody 's experience , has a local group without legal representation appeared and presented their case so consistently over an enormously long inquiry such as this . ’ |