Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " 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 | He heard vespers sung in the deep dusk from his father 's church , and his heart stilled and quietened in him with wonder , as though at last he felt himself to be drawing near to the heart of a mystery . |
| 3 | The whole thing had the odd appearance of a brick-built Mississippi steamboat beached and panting to get back to the lake . |
| 4 | Daffodils and primrose fluttered and blushed from warm corners . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The taxpayer argued that to rely on the substantial omissions from Mr Slade 's tax return as grounds for investigating Mr Kempton 's tax affairs was to imply guilt by association . |
| 7 | The Crown accepted that the income of the settlement arose or accrued to the three trustees jointly and not jointly and severally so that none of them was entitled , in law , separately to any particular share or fraction of the income . |
| 8 | But under pressure from the local MP for Falmouth , the Ministry of Defence relented and lifted the prohibition order . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
| 12 | When his heart brimmed and overflowed , he told her he was in love with her . |
| 13 | Thunder crashed and boomed outside . |
| 14 | The captain of the submarine surfaced and took his craft alongside one of the schooners . |
| 15 | Tucking himself into a ball of boots and flak jacket , the Squat bounced and rolled half a dozen times . |
| 16 | The 1981 census found that compared with the national average of 14% , inner urban areas have particularly heavy concentrations of lone parent families . |
| 17 | On the brown surface a few globules of half-sour milk swam and coalesced . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Looks as if Lotus Development Corp is being shopped around as a merger partner : according to the Wall Street Journal , Borland International Inc 's Philippe Kahn discussed a possible merger with Lotus 's Jim Manzi last month , although the talks were inconclusive , and elsewhere Manzi was seen to have been in deep discussions over dinner with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Scott McNealy ; Lotus of course tried and failed to merge with Novell Inc . |
| 20 | Tiny pieces of skin shrivelled and cooked on the red-hot ring and wisps of smoke rose into the air . |
| 21 | And now they were climbing again as the building grumbled and shook . |
| 22 | And so , at length , how ever much the king and the archbishop grumbled and complained , what he ordered was implemented completely . |
| 23 | Pumping Spray for permed and curly hair refreshed and protects curls with hold |
| 24 | Still the thunder thundered and burned and shook them . |
| 25 | Weapons will be broken open and the plutonium and uranium stockpiled or processed . |
| 26 | At present , the CEGB has sufficient uranium stockpiled or guaranteed under contract to fuel the nuclear programme until the end of this decade . |
| 27 | If an exposure does occur , a blood sample should be obtained from the individual from whom exposure occurred and tested for hepatitis B surface antigen ( HBsAg ) and HIV antibody . |
| 28 | As anti-pylons campaigners grilled the National Grid during the second week of the Northallerton hearing , an expert witness agreed that burying cables would eliminate the field . |
| 29 | One car skidded and crashed into a tree before the road was cleared . |
| 30 | The melody swooped and split into two , harmonizing with itself . |