Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demand switched , from charters produced locally and confirmed by the attachment of a princely seal , to those written in a prince 's name by his own clerks in his writing office . |
| 2 | Old age becomes something to be dreaded and endured rather than enjoyed by the individual . |
| 3 | The Maccabees fought rather than acquiesce in the placing of a statue of Zeus in the Temple . |
| 4 | Now , if she were seated in her old place , wedged between the window and Penini , with his mother opposite encircled in her husband 's arms , or , if the men rode alongside or travelled on the outside of the carriage , sitting with her mistress while Pen and Flush lay on the other seat — now she would feel stifled , trapped , longing to get out . |
| 5 | ‘ How can you be sure it was only one ? ’ the thin man asked doubtfully but clutching at a straw of hope . |
| 6 | The two got together and announced at the 1989 Seybold conference that they were going to develop a clone of PostScript based on Bauer 's which would use Apple 's new fonts on both the Macintosh and under OS/2 . |
| 7 | He rubbed his eyes , rose slowly and went into the bedroom . |
| 8 | She rose swiftly and went to the cubicle , where a nurse was straightening the bed and she asked , ‘ Where are they taking him ? ’ |
| 9 | The finished case is thrown upon the floor ; the long narrow strip which is to form the frame of the drawer is laid upon the bright strip of ready-pasted paper , then bent together and joined by an overlapping bit of paper ; the edges of paper below are bent flat , the ready-cut bottom is dropped in and pressed down and before the fingers are withdrawn they fold over the upper edges of the paper inside the top . |
| 10 | Madge had offered to carry her bag but she drew away and clung to the bannister rail . |
| 11 | They rose steeply and led to a fair-sized landing with a bedroom at each end , with a wash basin in each — bliss ! |
| 12 | As the mail train thundered past and disappeared into the distance he heard the familiar sound of footsteps . |
| 13 | This was fine until the wind direction changed slightly and came across the fixed line . |
| 14 | She moved restlessly and kicked at the crisp leaves at her feet . |
| 15 | Then in the account of how the risen Lord Jesus Himself drew near and walked with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus ( Luke 24 verses 13/31 ) we read of how He explained from the scriptures that all the events surrounding His crucifixion had been foreshadowed and foretold in the Word of God . |
| 16 | She rose restlessly and moved to the door . |
| 17 | The boy bent double and disappeared inside the hide . |
| 18 | Nobody discovered , pre-opening , that the hair-dryers provided in one luxury provincial hotel could only be used if the guests bent double or sat on the bedroom floor . |
| 19 | It was as though a voice had actually said the words aloud , and she moved sharply and leaned against the window to stare blankly at the room . |
| 20 | The marathon four mile trip brought out the best in Keep Talking and he rallied well when challenged by the useful Irish raider High Peak to win by four lengths . |
| 21 | When he saw that Mass was to be in the Lady Chapel he moved across and sat in the back row . |
| 22 | Hari stopped abruptly and peered into the darkness , trying to see the face of the man addressing her . |
| 23 | The greenbelt boundary as I mentioned earlier as proposed by the County Council is very tightly drawn , excluding the sites which have been mentioned which our allocated , there is no land between the edge of the urban area and the proposed greenbelt boundary and that does seem to us , continues to seem to us er not an appropriate way forward . |
| 24 | He bent forward and plucked at the coat . |
| 25 | He straightened , then bent forward and tapped at the white plastic strip on the kitchen window ledge which retained the cheaply horrid secondary double-glazing the flat 's owners had fitted . |
| 26 | Patrick rose obediently and went to the door . |
| 27 | He dreamed of the bloodied face with the girl 's hair swinging over it , and of Annabel 's children , and then he surfaced again and went for a walk through Covent Garden fruit market , where Mr. Jenkins must already be at work . |
| 28 | As Bernice tried to read the next line , Ell moved forward and stamped on the creature . |
| 29 | He moved forward and pulled at the bell rope , it was about time he put the wheels into motion , the wheels that would prove his innocence . |
| 30 | When he had lifted the hood of the Capri , and fastened the arm to hold it open , then he bent again and reached under the chassis to retrieve the plastic bag holding the Ruger . |