Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It stopped instead , and two humans in dark blue suits got out and started to lumber across the field . |
| 2 | Ward got out and strode down the mud-sodden road to join them . |
| 3 | Ward got out and walked across to the Indians . |
| 4 | Another rustle followed before a glossy blackbird hopped out and made off towards the parkland . |
| 5 | Asa got up and paced restlessly across the room . |
| 6 | But the pensioner got up and fought back , police said . |
| 7 | Several of the nearer birds got up and flew along the shore , revealing another feature which pin-pointed their origins : the lack of a white rump showed them to be of the race hudsonicus which breeds in northern Canada . |
| 8 | The blacksmith straightened up and looked at her . |
| 9 | Harvey got up and closed the door . |
| 10 | Honor straightened up and mopped her eyes . |
| 11 | Joanna nodded equably and Sophie got out and walked back a short distance . |
| 12 | The answer , I think , involves a partial refutation of the interactionist position : crimes do share an intrinsic quality — they involve the knowing transgression of rules laid down and enforced by the state . |
| 13 | It is perfectly conceivable that we can make some general statements about the conditions that influence our self-indulgence or self-restraint in relation to rules laid down and enforced by the state , particularly when the nature of those rules and the way they are enforced are included for consideration . |
| 14 | Their Lordships therefore consider that the profits accruing to the taxpayer on the grant of sub-licences during the relevant years of assessment arose in or derived from Hong Kong and as such were subject to profits tax under section 14 . |
| 15 | Andrée got up and went to the door . |
| 16 | Peggy got up and hurried over to him . |
| 17 | I ATTENDED a very up-market company dinner and after the meal the chairman got up and said , ‘ I hope you have all enjoyed the Thermal Lobsterdor this evening . ’ |
| 18 | So a friend of ours her Newfoundland got out and had a little erm foray with an Irish Water Spaniel . |
| 19 | Pascoe got up and checked the lock on the door . |
| 20 | Pascoe got up and went out . |
| 21 | What I was saying was , just that like , they had all these pieces of furniture in there , it was supposed to be a suite , but my mum , my mum got round and tell you every single piece that was a different colour or the wrong shape , or did n't fit on the pedestal properly , or this and that , and she had the whole lot changed at least three times . |
| 22 | But the gang found out and followed him here . |
| 23 | Suddenly Brown Owl bent down and looked at Jane 's foot . |
| 24 | Rosheen bent down and pushed aside the rocks that covered Postine 's horribly crushed body . |
| 25 | Bailiffs moved in and boarded up the house in Ely , Cardiff , as Pat and her children , Maria , 16 , and three-year-old Matthew watched . |
| 26 | Lukic charged out and seemed to hit him in what was no more than a 50–50 challenge . |
| 27 | Placing the Optima beside the bed , that night Douglas 's own watch misted up and stopped ! |
| 28 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 29 | The beam came to rest on the Ngo brothers , and after a moment 's hesitation Duclos bent down and seized Hoc by the arm . |
| 30 | Liz Headleand stared at the scene with a marked lack of dismay , as Kate Armstrong knelt down and started to dust the earth off Giles , looking up to ask anyone who might be interested about the little blobs of white polystyrene that always seem to come mixed with bulb fibre : ‘ What is this stuff ? ’ asked Kate , ‘ I 've often wondered , ’ as she proceeded to re-pot a hyacinth with one hand while stroking Giles 's shoulder with the other . |