Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [coord] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits .
2 She looked at Travis for support and found him grim-faced .
3 The survey looked at which cities cater for cyclists and covered everything from parking facilities to potholes .
4 A man said he had breathed for ages and felt nothing .
5 Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this .
6 On the moors O'Hara had endeavoured to summon up Heathcliff , and a gust of wind from beyond the grave had blown the cycle off course and toppled them both into a ditch .
7 Modigliani was pleased when Zbo responded quickly to his pleas for money and told his dealer he was going back to work : ‘ I must explain — though real explanations are impossible in letters — that there has been a ‘ vacuum ’ .
8 At the New Contemporaries Exhibition in 1961 he and his wife bought Hockney 's Doll Boy for £40 and invited him round to tea — ‘ black hair , crew-cut , frightfully shy , I arrived late .
9 A contingent headed for Plymouth and met their first serious resistance at Trematon Castle by Saltash , held for the King by Sir Richard Grenville .
10 Sun Alliance sold the majority of its 14.24% stake in Commercial Union for £280m and merged its Australian non-life operation with Royal Insurance 's to form the fourth largest general insurer in Australia .
11 UMWA women recently held a birthday party for Roberts and presented him with a plaque engraved with his now famous quote .
12 ‘ It will be said and believed that you lay in wait for Aldhelm and killed him , so that he could never point the finger at you . ’
13 Barrow , the former Liphook all-rounder , wants to continue playing Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire and felt it was in his interests to join a division one side .
14 Rain thought this unusually malicious for Wainfleet and wondered what could possibly be behind it .
15 He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’
16 No-one had told him about schools or explained their purpose .
17 The others had potential , but I bathed and groomed her as if for Crufts and made my way to the hospital .
18 Hamish Hamilton and I went on search for survivors but found nothing , except sea marks of crashed aircraft . ’
19 I have always remembered her as saying ‘ One came between brothers and shared their tutor ’ as an explanation of her knowledge of Greek .
20 Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November .
21 I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth .
22 She had searched for pictures and added them to her dreams , gypsies dancing , donkeys plodding through narrow streets , dazzling white houses and cool patios drenched in flowers .
23 I hovered over the sideboard pretending to be looking for cutlery and strained my ears to catch the conversation .
24 The crisis secured his reputation as President and earned him immense popularity with the American people .
25 She looked just too guilty for words and knew it , and Felipe 's dark eyes flashed to the tray and the still unused tablet .
26 They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call
27 As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 .
28 ‘ The English generals , ’ he replied , ‘ had the body dressed and embalmed after Flodden and sent it south for our King to view . ’
29 I could of done the same at home , I would of liked to have looked after Neil and kept my own electric
30 He and Cranston were still arguing rival theories when they reached Aldgate long after dark and made their way through a small postern door in the city gate .
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