Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brown eyes twinkled as he came towards Lindsey . |
| 2 | Her eyes crinkled when she talked about the residents , and Juliet decided she liked her . |
| 3 | Several speakers agreed that there seemed to be a great waste of resources in the whole training area . |
| 4 | Her eyes gleamed when she talked about fighting humans . |
| 5 | His eyes flickered as he looked at her , and she knew he was searching his mind for a joke . |
| 6 | But her legs shook and she clutched at the bed , which seemed to recede and there was a strange , fizzing sensation in her head . |
| 7 | His eyes shone as he spoke of his great purpose in life , and I was listening , fascinated , so neither of us heard the light footsteps approaching the cottage along the grassy path . |
| 8 | The three heads nodded and they went on their way . |
| 9 | The twist of his mouth betrayed an inner fury , while his eyes blazed as he looked at her . |
| 10 | I do n't know what the guards thought when they looked through the closed-circuit television that was always trained on us here and saw three men , heads motionless , looking down fixedly at some spot on the ground , making curious , swinging arm movements . |
| 11 | Are your eyes crooked and your legs crossed that you zig-zag like a snipe ? |
| 12 | My worries melted as I looked at her . |
| 13 | His ears twitched and he turned to the tree . |
| 14 | He smiled at the fancifulness of the thought , then caught his breath , seeing how her eyes flashed as she laughed at something her cousin had whispered in her ear . |
| 15 | The goat bells receded and I seemed to be moving through even deeper layers of peace . |
| 16 | Three additional parents reported that they worked on contract at nuclear sites and had been monitored for exposure to radiation before their child was diagnosed ( one father of a case , after conception ; one father of a control , before conception ; one mother of a control , before conception ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Whilst recognising that staff in other parts of AEA would undoubtedly be more concerned , he and his colleagues in the UK and overseas subsidiaries knew that they had to ‘ Keep their eye on the ball , push ahead with product development , sell hard and achieve their demanding targets for growth . ’ |
| 18 | Her senses reeled and she fell into his arms as his lips parted hers . |
| 19 | Stella did too — ; after all , she was one of them — until a picture grew in her head of Dawn Allenby in St Ives 's bed-sitter , cheeks hollowed as she sucked on her peppermints , the gas fire burning blue , those unwrapped , unwanted flowers lying on the table . |
| 20 | In the event , the meeting decreed an adjournment after only 90 minutes ; observers noted that there seemed to be a general desire to paper over the rifts caused by the Gulf war . |
| 21 | A PAIR of teenage sweethearts suffocated as they cuddled in a car inside a garage . |
| 22 | But all that was put to one side when the protests started and we took to the streets . |
| 23 | We also booked hotels in advance , since the guidebooks said that they tended to be busy . |
| 24 | Size of establishment is associated with number of training programmes ( see Table 4 ) as one might expect it to be , although there are differences to be noted within authorities of similar size : while none of the large libraries said that they engaged in no planned training programmes , they did not fall into Category I ( Category I was 30 or more programmes and was a very broad grouping , with several libraries mentioning well over 100 programmes ) . |
| 25 | One particularly successful firm said that LEDU officials suggested that they relocate in Antrim , and that if they did they would be open to considerably more funding . |
| 26 | ‘ The problems came when I protested at the removing without consultation of Christmas bonus pay and the halving of overtime paid while accompanying residents on holidays . ’ |
| 27 | The locked wheels shrieked as they slid along the rails and the train finally shuddered to a halt in a cloud of hissing steam . |
| 28 | Lights flared as he moved from room to room , obviously checking the rest of the house . |
| 29 | Plasterer Steve 's hat-trick of sorrows began as he clambered into his car outside his home at Sherborne , Dorset , late for the kick-off . |
| 30 | Taylor and his managers decided that it had to be ‘ double or quits ’ if the business was to be a success . |