Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 2 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 3 | Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen . |
| 4 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 5 | The destruction of the temples and the towns round them led directly to a rebuilding programme . |
| 6 | Everyone dined together at a plain wooden table more suited to the kitchen or servants ' quarters than the guests ' dining room , and the fare was similarly lacking in charm . |
| 7 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 8 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 9 | After mentioning some of the New Age practices and beliefs , I asked again for a show of hands from those who knew friends and neighbours who were involved . |
| 10 | I asked again about the truck . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ I asked impatiently at the end , ‘ is n't Mrs Reed a bad woman ? |
| 12 | Outside , sprockets whirred as someone rode past on a bicycle . |
| 13 | Yet again I gazed intently at the lighthouse , the beach , the palapas , the palm trees and the reef . |
| 14 | He walked off and I gazed blankly at the cricket match . |
| 15 | I gazed across to the rising ground beyond the farm buildings . |
| 16 | Move along ! " bawled the orderly , and as I shuffled away I gazed appealingly at the white-coated figure . |
| 17 | I gazed quickly around the room and sighed bitterly . |
| 18 | I shied away from the very American-sounding compliment . |
| 19 | I shied away from the prospect . |
| 20 | He twisted the throttle , 20 knots or more , skimming across the waves , while I clung tightly to the gunwhale , and Graham sheltered his daughter , Abigail , from the spray . |
| 21 | I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse . |
| 22 | I tottered across to a cottage on the edge of the loch and asked for a pot of tea and a bite to eat . |
| 23 | I do n't know what the others did but I made straight towards the front of the packed train , threading an unsteady way through seemingly endless sleeping cars ( passing my own berth ) , through the still busy central dining car , the full and raucous open-seat dayniter , three more sleeping cars , the crowded dome car ( dining room , kitchen , lounge , observation deck ) , another sleeping car , and finally reaching the horses . |
| 24 | I made straight for the curtains , and he went by me without noticing . |
| 25 | I refer with er councillor to the remarks I made earlier about the tr the post of the trade union , I do n't propose to say any more on that . |
| 26 | Very slowly , and keeping down below the seals ' horizon , I crept forward towards the sound of singing . |
| 27 | I realized also with a jolt that the dancers were wearing a motley of costumes representing centuries of brief encounters with the West — from seventeenth-century Portuguese ruffles round their throats , down to modern trainers on their feet . |
| 28 | I argued passionately for a top higher band . |
| 29 | Until I moved in to the Rectory at Seend , I lived briefly at the Bell Inn , St Edith 's Marsh , Bromham , near Devizes . |
| 30 | And when I come here and I lived here for a few year and then really saw what it was like , I thought , God , never again . |