Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As time goes on the need for such support will , obviously , diminish — it 's more than likely that your staff will become more conversant with the product than the person who either sold or trained them on it .
2 The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach .
3 There are eight shades of Varnish or Cream which can be mixed or applied one on top of another
4 IT WAS a two-part induction process that dragged me into the brawling hostelry in the sky of NME Towers .
5 Control F seven , that what causes that Got it in caps .
6 Roman caught her before she could fall and carried her to the small settee .
7 My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg .
8 She bounced and cuddled herself into half a dozen bright scatter cushions .
9 He stopped talking as Marshka entered and wheeled himself into the empty space at the table , at that end farthest , on the right-hand side , from the president .
10 Kalchu was ashamed of his drunkenness and Chola grumbled and rebuked him for it .
11 The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April .
12 So remorseful was Shiva that he took the head of the first creature he encountered and placed it on the boy 's shoulders .
13 When Mme Fournier joined them , Flavia rose and relieved her of her market basket ; Fournier did neither .
14 On closer inspection the bundle of rags rose and revealed itself to be a woman , filthy dirty , her skin so grimy she was almost invisible in the gloom .
15 Her desperate words provoked a great shout of laughter from him , and , holding her firmly in his arms he rose and carried her towards his bedroom .
16 He rose and kissed her with spontaneous pleasure .
17 There was a noticeable hesitation before Tamar rose and kissed her on the cheek .
18 He rose and helped her to her feet , steadying her as she eased her weight on to the injured ankle .
19 But it was Wang Sau-leyan who rose and helped him from his chair ; who walked with him , his arm about his shoulder , to the steps .
20 I rose and faced her across the table .
21 No sound , nothing but the gentle flurry of leaves as the wind lifted and scattered them like pieces of gold across the grass .
22 He assumed the mural was being discarded and took it to his studio , hoping to repair and perhaps eventually sell it , as he had done with other works from that period .
23 She phoned and told me about your visit this afternoon ; however , I shall reserve the right to be sceptical a while longer .
24 There was a bit of head-scratching as they pushed , squeezed and levered me into the passenger seat : ‘ The biggest bloke yet ’ .
25 The inner spiritual resources which sustained and nourished her in her darkest hours are now manifested in her uncanny empathy with those in need .
26 He bent and twisted himself before it , jerking suddenly this way and that , as if he were lying in wait for disease , determined to pounce on it before it could strike .
27 White continues , ‘ As I never possessed the sense of smelling , and was willing to ascertain the flavour of the liquor , I tasted and found it to be aromatic , tho ’ not very pungent , partaking of the taste of catchup and of the pickle of Spanish olives . ’
28 You felt , tasted and swallowed it in an effort to breathe .
29 She stopped and halted him with a hand on his arm .
30 The tracking and following of the youths , through rush-hour traffic , took Tom through most of Edinburgh New Town , and culminated , almost an hour later , with his flagging down a Police motor cyclist who stopped and questioned them at Mackenzie Place/India Place .
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