Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Seas receded and new land surfaces arose and joined up with others , inviting colonization of a whole ecological community . |
| 3 | Opponents argued that teaching other languages , especially those spoken at home , would impede the ability of children to speak and write English . |
| 4 | Flotillas of birds sculled and flapped away from the train . |
| 5 | She was sitting bolt upright on the thick tug which lay before the fireplace in which the coals glowed and flamed . |
| 6 | All authorities agreed that adding the substance to water was the best way to limit the daily dosage . |
| 7 | The chain joining the handcuffs chinked and pulled at her wrist as he moved , and resentment won . |
| 8 | At Barlinnie Jail in Scotland , prisoners rioted and took three warders hostage . |
| 9 | It would be inappropriate if the COB Rules regulated that exempted business merely because the firm was a member of SFA for other activities . |
| 10 | The liquid notes rose and flowed round the chandelier , already removed from its dust bag ready for the Season . |
| 11 | Certainly there is plenty in the literature about using cobalt-60 sources for sterilisation and DoE researchers found that spent reactor fuel rods did the job quite effectively .. |
| 12 | From now on it will refer to products validated as working with all Sparc-compliant hardware and software , not just Sun . |
| 13 | As with Auer 's lace , the verisimilitude was striking and The Times reported that touch alone could convince the beholder that the minutely detailed weeds with their infinitely varied tints were not actual specimens from the sea shore.2 |
| 14 | Boom products rose and fell ; areas which provided the main body of such exports in our period were later to stagnate or abandon them . |
| 15 | Before this , the fortunes of the various strategies rose and fell , just as in my computer simulation of the Cheats , Suckers , and Grudgers . |
| 16 | She felt his hands , warm and caressing , moving from the back of her , and was in a land of breath-held enchantment when his moving , caressing fingers stroked and captured her full , throbbing breasts . |
| 17 | The curlews swooped and circled . |
| 18 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 19 | Liberal Democrat supporters shared that view by about 4 : 1 . |
| 20 | Experience has shown that anomalies arose and had to be addressed and that caused massive administrative complications . |
| 21 | Yet they had the same energetic manner of speaking : their metallic voices swooped and dived , their eyes rolled , their shoulders bounced , their hands flew in the air like birds performing a courtship dance . |
| 22 | The burnished waves rippled and settled , and Deveraugh 's glance followed the movement . |
| 23 | The order of the day 's observances being immutable , whoever fell ill and whoever defaulted , the bell for Matins sounded in the dortoir as it did every midnight , and the brothers arose and went sleepily down the night stairs into the church . |
| 24 | He was conscious that his words creaked and grated like machinery in the wrong hands , and that his smiling glance upwards at the bunch of mistletoe was more of a leer , a leer that stayed , unnaturally fixed by confusion and rage , as he observed Clare 's hesitation . |
| 25 | The images swirled and danced in her head like figures around a maypole . |
| 26 | Although , and it is important to stress this , most of these methods arose and developed from a diverse range of sources and traditions , their contemporary unity was a rather later achievement , as that collection of ideas we can refer to as variable analysis . |
| 27 | Not one of they brothers got and kept a wife . ’ |
| 28 | On the river the vessels creaked and groaned as a gust of wind caught them . |
| 29 | Individual skirmishes flickered and stuttered in the distance . |
| 30 | The handbook , however , that is recommended for potential writers , You Can Write a Romance and Get it Published , breezily enjoins its readers to ‘ Remember that these are formula books tried and proved to be successful ’ and proceeds to outline the characterizations and plotting that are expected of the successful romance . |