Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ The meagre , gallant Don Quixote beard quivered and jutted as though every individual hair had suddenly stiffened to the clenched tension of Paviour 's jaw . |
| 2 | Daffodils and primrose fluttered and blushed from warm corners . |
| 3 | After staring for a moment , Schaffer straightened and blinked . |
| 4 | I was sympathetic towards the subject and not averse to carrying out some research in that field if the opportunity arose but had no intention of studying it myself . |
| 5 | After the Tower Report was published in February 1987 , and the PROF notes revealed that had passed by computer between the characters , the basement became home to a band of five-o'clock-shadowed Boy Scouts delighting in their own secrecy . |
| 6 | Seas receded and new land surfaces arose and joined up with others , inviting colonization of a whole ecological community . |
| 7 | Churchill agreed and decided that , regardless of the outcome of the talks about continuing the coalition into peacetime , ‘ any decisions which are needed for the supreme objects of FOOD and EMPLOYMENT in the years immediately after the war must be taken whether they involve legislation and whether they are controversial or not ’ . |
| 8 | While serving in Zanzibar Rigby met and assisted several celebrated explorers : Sir Richard Burton ( who was to be accused by Rigby of withholding payment from porters and other members of the expedition to Lake Tanganyika — an accusation which was denied by Burton ) , J. H. Speke , and David Livingstone [ qq.v . ] . |
| 9 | Like the Royal Navy , the RAF sought and found a gap in the Sandys doctrine , and it was the Army 's requirements that again provided the case . |
| 10 | But under pressure from the local MP for Falmouth , the Ministry of Defence relented and lifted the prohibition order . |
| 11 | Not far away I caught , from the corner of my eye , the flickering movement as a ringed plover scudded and ran among the sea-pinks . |
| 12 | On that basis , and almost forgotten between these two dramatic giants , Newman commissioned and produced a science fiction serial for children in 1959 called Pathfinders in Space , a serial in seven parts , penned by Eric Paice and Malcolm Hulke — two authors who shared a friend in fellow writer David Whitaker , of whom more will be discussed in later chapters . |
| 13 | Flotillas of birds sculled and flapped away from the train . |
| 14 | She was sitting bolt upright on the thick tug which lay before the fireplace in which the coals glowed and flamed . |
| 15 | Sir Mark on his black warhorse , his dark red hair oiled and combed ; before him went his squire carrying a banner with the Burghgesh arms , and marching behind were six archers with steel caps , quilted jerkins , long bows and quivers full of goose-quilled arrows . |
| 16 | Teresa Leinin met and married her husband in just three months . |
| 17 | When his heart brimmed and overflowed , he told her he was in love with her . |
| 18 | Sidney Poitier directed and starred in the yukkie A Warm December ; Barbra Streisand played a rebellious housewife in Up The Sandbox , a garish comedy-drama ; and Steve McQueen produced and starred in the brutish Sam Peckinpah heist movie The Getaway , which grossed more than $36 million worldwide despite mixed reviews . |
| 19 | Sophie agreed and looked out of the window . |
| 20 | Aunt Margaret and Melanie clapped and clapped and clapped . |
| 21 | At Barlinnie Jail in Scotland , prisoners rioted and took three warders hostage . |
| 22 | Thunder crashed and boomed outside . |
| 23 | The captain of the submarine surfaced and took his craft alongside one of the schooners . |
| 24 | Tucking himself into a ball of boots and flak jacket , the Squat bounced and rolled half a dozen times . |
| 25 | It would be inappropriate if the COB Rules regulated that exempted business merely because the firm was a member of SFA for other activities . |
| 26 | The liquid notes rose and flowed round the chandelier , already removed from its dust bag ready for the Season . |
| 27 | The 1981 census found that compared with the national average of 14% , inner urban areas have particularly heavy concentrations of lone parent families . |
| 28 | On the brown surface a few globules of half-sour milk swam and coalesced . |
| 29 | All the spreading woodland hummed and buzzed and trembled , shimmeringly alive with the knowledge of itself , aware of the presence of a protective grace moving above , beyond and yet within itself . |
| 30 | Ben stopped and looked up from what he was doing . |