Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As his hands caressed her back , the long strong fingers kneaded and moulded every vertebra along the way . |
| 2 | The liquid notes rose and flowed round the chandelier , already removed from its dust bag ready for the Season . |
| 3 | Yet they had the same energetic manner of speaking : their metallic voices swooped and dived , their eyes rolled , their shoulders bounced , their hands flew in the air like birds performing a courtship dance . |
| 4 | By October , though , these wally wagons had given way to splinter-thin rowing shells in which muscular lads sweated and gasped over their oars while a weedy wimp goaded them on to still greater suffering . |
| 5 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 6 | Outside , the bright lights and multicoloured signs blinked and gleamed in the cold darkness . |
| 7 | ‘ I remember vividly being on night guard prior to the morning executions when some prisoners sang and rattled their tin mugs against the bars in some form of defiance . |
| 8 | In contrast , social purists argued that to speak out was vital . |
| 9 | Severed segments writhed and melted . |
| 10 | In the meantime France had built a DBS satellite — TDF-I — with , if not nowhere to go , few programmes to show : the Luxembourg government , various ( non French ) private sector TV channel consortia , and other potential partners and clients , had been alienated , as successive French governments dithered and dallied , and technologies — and the cost of their application — evolved . |
| 11 | Foreign observers sniggered and called him a basketball player . |
| 12 | The first was the Christmas truce of 1914 , when after the horrendous fighting of the first Battle of Ypres , German and British troops fraternized and played football together on Christmas Day . |
| 13 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 14 | How are social relations visualized and operated when they are not moulded by the impersonal ideology of capitalism ? |
| 15 | So he stood with her , and held her , and very soon nature began to teach them both what to do , and before very long the neighbours heard a little shriek come from Pascoe 's cottage , and the old wives glanced and nodded to each other , content that the marriage had been consummated , and anxious to share with each other reminiscences of their own experiences in similar circumstances . |
| 16 | Given their view of the reports as generally descriptive , it is hardly surprising that few teachers felt that having to submit a written report on their school was in any measure a professional threat to them . |
| 17 | British ships overtook and sank two of them , the third , the Dresden , escaped but was sunk in March 1915 . |
| 18 | At the economic level , prices of strategic raw materials soared and led to a rise in cash earnings : in Africa and Asia , large numbers of people acquired a certain purchasing power and savings . |
| 19 | Old ladies mugged and beaten for their pitifully small savings ? |
| 20 | French restrictions on an African press were lifted after the Second World War , and between 1945 and independence in 1960 thirty-six newspapers emerged and disappeared in Abidjan alone . |
| 21 | The poor man now lay in a great fourposter bed while the two old beldames clacked and muttered to themselves as they fastened splints to his leg and carefully washed his naked , bruised body . |
| 22 | The defendants ( A ) were officials of a union to which all but a very few watermen belonged and wished to bring pressure on C in connection with a grievance at another company controlled by him . |
| 23 | Torture was used as a matter of course and some suspects died or became insane as a result of the methods employed . |
| 24 | Quickly the English found it so , and considerable confusion developed there as the foremost horses stumbled and floundered and oncoming ranks piled up with the pressure of thousands behind . |
| 25 | Such were the army , in which both George I and George II took a strong personal interest , and foreign policy , about which as a rule few ministers knew or cared very much . |
| 26 | The Kop was strangely silent , watching impassively as several clear chances came and went . |
| 27 | At the 10th plenum a new draft political platform was released , which some commentators saw as marking a return to central planning , while others saw it as an essentially reformist tract . |
| 28 | As unification approached many of the 4,250 prisoners in East German prisons rioted or went on rooftop protests or hunger strike in support of demands for a general amnesty on Oct. 3 . |
| 29 | He then went back to headquarters and together with some colleagues went and collected Mxenge 's car from the parking lot . |
| 30 | A charm of eight goldfinches hovered and pecked at parachuting thistle seeds and a yellow hammer perched close , wheezing its summer song . |