Example sentences of "[unc] [noun pl] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Captain 's words slipped and slithered as his outrageous temper blew up into unbelievable fury , all reason washed away by wine . |
| 2 | As the women 's voices soared and broke into part-singing so that the phrase ‘ We sit down and weep ’ rang round and round the group , the hair prickled on the back of my neck . |
| 3 | I was just dropping off to sleep and you know how you 're just thinking , yeah , mm what are we gon na do this weekend , and all of a sudden , Ben 's legs went and kicked me really hard , and I thought oh my God something awful 's happened , and you , you really do , you move a lot . |
| 4 | Wycliffe said that he did , which was something of a record , for Franks 's secretaries came and went with bewildering frequency , though all were to a common stamp . |
| 5 | R Co 's directors disagreed and recommended their shareholders to sell . |
| 6 | The men of Ring 's Amusements whistled and shouted , still preparing the machinery in Sir Walter Raleigh Park . |
| 7 | Instinct caused him to put out both hands in an attempt to break the fall , and Ellwood was on him , the rod flailing , blood rising from Carey 's face in a thick mist of spray , the hook going into his flesh wherever it landed and ripping out again as Ellwood 's arms rose and fell , rose and fell . |
| 8 | According to some commentators , Aoun seriously miscalculated the LF 's level of preparedness , and was surprised when Geaga 's forces counterattacked and overran numerous Army installations in the LF-controlled northern provinces of Jbeil and Kesrouan . |
| 9 | Anthea 's eyelids quivered and dipped . |
| 10 | The two rivals ' remarks came as attempts to negotiate a truce in the bitter struggle between parliament and Mr Yeltsin 's executive seemed close to collapse . |
| 11 | The presence of the fusion transcript of the ND1 and ND5 genes indicated that deleted genomes indeed underwent transcription . |
| 12 | Eleven A&R men came and watched . |