Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He allowed his achievements to be played down or appropriated by George . |
| 2 | Rescuers , working in stifling temperatures in a space no bigger than three feet wide and two feet high , reached through a small hole they had dug to the men at 9.30pm and passed through drinks and sandwiches . |
| 3 | Early in July , it also became evident that while the Austrian troops were falling back in collapse , German formations on the front fought stubbornly and retreated with discipline . |
| 4 | She peered at the tangle of brambles inside and shook with excitement : there was a perfect spider 's web today . |
| 5 | She reached inside and turned to Paige . |
| 6 | Proceedings were adjourned until July 11 , so that witnesses could be called , but the justices sitting on that date concluded that they had no power to consider the case afresh and proceeded to sentence . |
| 7 | He extracted his arm gently and stepped towards Christina . |
| 8 | As I looked in and stiffened with surprise and horror at the scene , he appeared to be putting a handful of grey matter back into a broken skull . |
| 9 | They range from sites of long-gone timber motte and bailey structures , through ruined stone works to well-preserved extensive buildings still lived in and enjoyed by owners or tenants . |
| 10 | Palin failed to get in and went to Oxford instead . |
| 11 | He started to speak but Jorge came in and asked about dinner and Maggie slipped out . |
| 12 | When the vote went against them the Poles simply marched in and took by force the areas they considered rightfully theirs . |
| 13 | We went in and looked from room to room . |
| 14 | Charlotte and Mrs Sowerberry ran in and screamed in horror . |
| 15 | Lorrimer came in and stood in front of the desk . |
| 16 | He and other rescuers jumped in and dug with shovels , buckets and their bare hands . |
| 17 | The coffin had been fastened down and lay on trestles , honey-coloured in the slanting light , awaiting its removal . |
| 18 | And so Inchbad sat down and beamed at Fenella and said they would be interested to hear her stories and , at the same time , nodded to the waiting Fiachra Broadcrown to get the Fidchell squares ready for the Gnomes . |
| 19 | He put the magazine down and stared into space over my head , smiling wisely as I cleared my throat and flapped the hem of my dressing-gown as unobtrusively as I could . |
| 20 | Suddenly Brown Owl bent down and looked at Jane 's foot . |
| 21 | She put the goose down and looked at Nick . |
| 22 | She slipped the key into the lock and was about to turn it when she looked down and realised with surprise that the door was open . |
| 23 | Two days later a horse-and-cart pulled up in Page Street and an elderly man with a shock of ginger hair sticking out from both sides of his battered trilby stepped down and knocked at Aggie 's front door . |
| 24 | It got quite windy in the morning but he got his head down and played to par , not speaking hardly a word , even to me . |
| 25 | The pair then lay down and went to sleep ! |
| 26 | I was so exhausted that I lay down and went to sleep . |
| 27 | I drank from the river and then lay down and went to sleep . |
| 28 | Then nothing else seemed about to happen , and she eventually calmed down and went to sleep . |
| 29 | I caught a bit of it on and we sat down and went to sleep . |
| 30 | What hitherto had been integrated plants in countries like the UK , carrying out complete manufacturing processes , are closed down and rationalized in order to manufacture products more cheaply from parts manufactured by workers divided between a number of countries . |