Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this way he has lived in Nazi Germany or sat beside a small girl in Vietnam who gazes into the distance with a fixed stare and cries into the silence with a monotonous , elemental shriek . |
| 2 | Once away from the railhead , however , the army was back in the age of Napoleon and moved at the pace of horse and man . |
| 3 | Four years later he left the house of William Pickering and moved to Cable Street , Liverpool . |
| 4 | The masher turned his attention from the girl to Neil and moved towards him menacingly . |
| 5 | ‘ He said we were being served with notice to leave on the Tuesday and had to be out by Thursday . |
| 6 | Having slept better that night , Fabia awakened on Tuesday and thought of Ven , thought of Cara and of Barney , and would dearly have liked to telephone her parents to find out if they had heard anything from her sister . |
| 7 | McGuinness is more hard-line than Adams and reckoned to be in closer touch with the mood of die-hard republicans . |
| 8 | The old nun was as imperious as ever but she visibly thawed when she saw Corbett and beamed with pleasure at his gift . |
| 9 | Wishart stared at Corbett and laughed as if Corbett had told some pleasantry . |
| 10 | As they rounded the bend towards Westminster , Ranulf nudged Corbett and pointed to the near bank . |
| 11 | The manikin threw a malevolent look at Corbett and fled into the darkness . |
| 12 | Benstede leaned across the table to talk further but , aware of the growing interest of neighbours , stared knowingly at Corbett and lapsed into silence . |
| 13 | A young , red-haired man , dressed simply in a leather jerkin , leggings and boots , came up to Corbett and spoke in an accent the English clerk could not even hope to follow . |
| 14 | They moved to Sherburn-in-Elmet and set to their new task . |
| 15 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 16 | For instance , take Blind Willie Johnson ( one of Cooder 's big early blues influences ) ; he was from Texas and lived near Dallas , so there 's a good chance the Hawaiians would have visited the area . |
| 17 | He travelled under his new name to Afghanistan and embarked on a decade of pioneering travel and antiquarian investigation . |
| 18 | Britain 's Sharon Lee also faced Gao and succumbed to two knockdowns , but although she left the hall without a medal , two good wins , including a 20-second victory over Carole Scheid , of the United States , showed that she is capable of making an impact at world level . |
| 19 | Gloucester came back with a penalty and thankfully a matchwinning try which was masterminded by Marcus Hannaford and scored by Paul Ashmead . |
| 20 | They then returned to Cherbourg and succeeded in entering the Harbour and dropping the torpedo , but the aircraft was hit and crashed at Bourbourg at 23.30 hrs . |
| 21 | Came down Halam Hill and went down School Lane . |
| 22 | Shortly before he died Churchill visited Biggin Hill and spoke of the role it had played when Britain stood alone against Germany . |
| 23 | They were already in sight when Thorfinn with Tuathal behind him rounded Moncrieffe Hill and dashed into the flat plain of Rhind , where the Earn joined the Tay . |
| 24 | She has had a hit song with Roberta Flack and worked on material for , among others , Marvin Hamlisch and Spencer Jones . |
| 25 | Joseph Thomas , engineer , was born in Roche and came to Looe to retire after a distinguished career . |
| 26 | Although he trained with the England A team during the winter and felt optimistic , he was in pain again before he left for Portugal and looked on the tour as a ‘ make-or-break ’ exercise . |
| 27 | Hoisting her bag , she sidestepped a cargo float , waded through a crowd of squabbling Perks and elbowed between two Alteceans and a city guide they were trying to haggle . |
| 28 | In spangled blue pyjamas and bare feet he came bowling out of nowhere past the ship , somersaulted over the guard of Perks and cannoned into the hook-up crew , scattering them like tenpins . |
| 29 | Homeless people got off trains at Euston , King 's Cross and Paddington and came to that area . |
| 30 | D' ya remember that res , you know when we went to Brussels and stayed above the sort of Indian restaurant ? |