Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was estimated by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) that Iraq was holding up to 40,000 Iranian PoWs ( more than half of them unregistered as such ) and that Iran held up to 70,000 Iraqi PoWs ( of whom some 50,000 were registered ) . |
| 2 | I think Dysart is feeding commercial secrets to his old skipper , Charlie Mallender , and that Clare found out about it . |
| 3 | From that moment David took absolute control and while Rachel crawled back into the space and fitted the collar , immobilising Len as much as possible , he administered a pethidine injection , all the time talking and trying to reassure the patient . |
| 4 | But first things first , and while Duncan headed back to town with the VW riding piggyback on his truck , I turned back towards Maidstone and the hospital . |
| 5 | Since McFarlane was an honourable man , North was not unduly worried when he asked him to alter official documents ; and when McFarlane sat down at North 's computer on November 18th to type in ‘ additional input that was radically different from the truth ’ , North still considered he must have had ‘ a darn good reason for not putting the straight story out ’ . |
| 6 | And when Gilbert looked up at him again through blurred vision , he could see that Rohmer was talking , although he could hear no words . |
| 7 | And when William came back from Germany and a decision had to be made about his education , he argued that it made sense to send him to the state school , the same as Preston . |
| 8 | But as those boxing her in came away from the rails at the entrance to the home stretch she found a good run up the inside , and when Teleprompter ran out of stamina with just over a furlong to go Pat Eddery shot the favourite into the lead and made for the wire . |
| 9 | The Zeltweg race was , after all , on Niki 's home territory , and when Prost spun off on a patch of oil , the race took on a new perspective for Niki : he found himself in the lead , with Piquet behind him and no threat with badly worn tyres . |
| 10 | it was touch and go for a time and when Leicester hit back with an equaliser from Whitlow a draw seemed the best they could hope for … |
| 11 | Her teeth stopped chattering , and when Matthew came back with the tea and the whisky , he remarked that the colour had come back into her face . |
| 12 | The audience were a comic 's dream and when Dennie came back on stage and whispered ‘ two minutes to count-down ’ I ran off to applause that made me feel like Mike Tyson . |
| 13 | Although the contact was more social than professional , the two inevitably talked shop when they met , and as Coleman zeroed in on al-Kassar as possibly the key player in the Middle East 's narco-terrorist game , he decided to visit Mayer in his office at the German Embassy one day to see if his friend could be persuaded to take a more generous view of international cooperation than Hurley 's . |
| 14 | To Erika 's intense annoyance , Fritz promptly accepted the invitation — obeyed the command , rather — and as Rosa moved on to the floor with another boy , she was left feeling abandoned — and foolish . |
| 15 | She came to rest beside the statue of Father Matthew , the Apostle of Temperance , and as Jacob drew up to her he joked : ‘ You would n't want to get too close to him . |
| 16 | His enthusiasm was infectious , and as Merrill looked up at the lively amber glint in his eyes she could n't suppress a smile . |
| 17 | It was a gabled Victorian house set behind a high red brick wall in the heart of the city and as Rachel drew on to the gravel forecourt she sat for a moment admiring the mass of copper beeches that surrounded the house . |
| 18 | And as Clara walked back towards her college hostel , she thought about Clelia , and wondered whether she dealt out all her friendships with so lavish a hand , or whether , once more in her life , she could count on some peculiar blessing . |
| 19 | IT was a warm evening , but when Emmie went up to bed Alice was lying with the blankets drawn up to her chin , grey as a rat in the face and shivering . |
| 20 | Bleasdale had written the role expressly for Robert Lindsay but when Lindsay dropped out at one point , Palin enthusiastically stepped in . |
| 21 | The man was ignorant of the Empress 's scheme , but when Isabel glanced back at his face she saw only too clearly his opinion of her visit to their guest 's room . |
| 22 | But when Bridget turned up at the town 's sorting offices staff told her she was a month too late . |
| 23 | But when Fleury came back at last and told him how they were faring in the Residency , Harry knew he would have to take the risk . |
| 24 | But as Ruth came out of the basement , all she was struck by , quite irrelevantly , was his likeness to Jake ; for an instant she almost thought it was Jake , standing there . |
| 25 | But as Orton pointed out in the diary , as usual nothing came of it — not even after telling a man who tried to get in their way to ‘ piss off ’ . |