Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] and [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It makes the British attitude to planemaking — make it commercial or defence oriented and make it pay PDQ — look plain shortsighted and stupid . |
| 2 | Her mouth opened and shut ; then looking at Maggie she said , ‘ You silly daft lump , I thought you were joking and it was Simon you had brought back . ’ |
| 3 | Nisodemus 's mouth opened and shut for a while . |
| 4 | Also , the height of the head-dress proportionately lowered the position of the face which could make the drawing imbalanced and reduce the figure , thus losing the detail . |
| 5 | Mrs Blakey would immediately tell her husband and Mr Blakey would immediately go to wherever it was this boy lived and warn him that if he did n't stop the police would be informed . |
| 6 | I covered my face and the girl came and put the wine down on the table . |
| 7 | Alternatively , have your rims sand blasted and paint the insides with a rust resistant paint . |
| 8 | ‘ did fail to stop ’ , means did fail to stop immediately the accident happened and remain at the scene of the accident long enough , taking the prevailing conditions into account , to give his name and address and also the name and address of the owner and the identification marks of the vehicle ( Lee v Knapp [ 1966 ] 3 All ER 961 and Ward v Rawson [ 1979 ] Crim LR 58 ) . |
| 9 | Sometimes , Henry thought , it would be kindness itself to rise one night between three and four when the suburb slept and drag a sharp stone across the Mitsubishi 's flanks . |
| 10 | In Mr Foley 's view the idea that high corporate gearing is responsible for holding back economic recovery is misleading , since companies on average were not particularly heavily indebted when the recession began and have subsequently reduced their borrowing levels . |
| 11 | There were many heads like that in Spain , and I would follow outstanding examples gazing in admiration at that nape , that neck , that flat-backed skull , until the head turned and let me glimpse the face , which was never disappointing . |
| 12 | They might all be out of a job if the Factory Commission came and shut the place down . |
| 13 | She did n't go out drinking or dancing ; she did n't do as one mother she 'd known ( in a story of maternal neglect that I remember feeling was over the top at the time ) and tie a piece of string round my big toe , dangle it through the window and down the front of the house , so that the drunken mother , returning from her carousing , could tug at it , wake the child , get the front door opened and send it down the shop for a basin of pie and peas . |
| 14 | When I visited the Edison National Historic Site a few years ago , my guide told me that the full resources of his employer ( the United States Government ) had failed to break one ; but to find out exactly what was inside the quarter-inch slab , they had borrowed a diamond saw and cut one in half . |
| 15 | The knife slipped and cut his finger . |
| 16 | Although no children played , no parent called , no human being opened and shut the door , yet other creatures lived there . |
| 17 | There is a fire-tinge of violence to it here in New York , as there is to everything in this city , which just wo n't slow down like the other city did and get more innocent and less crazy and less dirty-colourful . |
| 18 | His sheets were scorched after the white plastic monitor box melted and set fire to the carpet . |
| 19 | Words can not express the sadness of seeing a teenager who looks barely older than a young child suffering from severe malnutrition , but there are the wonderful moments such as a child who suffered tremendous burns after a candle fell and set fire to her night-dress ; after months of careful dressing and cleaning her wounds have virtually healed — without the clinic the little girl would almost certainly have died . |
| 20 | But there is no doubt that many of his generation did and do still appeal to the heroic myth . |
| 21 | His mother smiled and put me in his hand . |