Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 2 | How many pieces of expensive jewellery , or very collectable coins , did these Victorian visitors lose as they did the social round and took their cures ? |
| 3 | This man stopped real quick and blew his horn and shouted summat at me . |
| 4 | Some of her hair caught inside it and she flicked it out , a careless fall of dark blonde that framed her even-featured face . |
| 5 | Strong hands turned Soapy round and helped him out into the street again . |
| 6 | Jenna changed into a soft woollen dress of dark blue and tied her hair back in a band . |
| 7 | He got bored silly and considered it a complete waste of time . |
| 8 | They would not be there unless they shared the European ideal and believed themselves to be an integral part of the process of European unity . |
| 9 | He calmly snapped the sawn-off closed and swivelled it from the hip towards me . |
| 10 | Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind . |
| 11 | Fruity Fred the bull terrier took a fancy to the leggy lovely and thought he 'd try his luck . |
| 12 | Reference to Freemantle 's letter shows that although Philip and Anne Leapor both attempted to break their daughter of the habit of writing verses , toward the end of the poet 's life some accommodation was reached : ‘ But finding it impossible to alter her natural Inclination , [ her father ] had of late desisted and left her more at Liberty ’ [ vol. 2 , p. xxx ] . |
| 13 | Raymond Williams has objected to the ‘ limiting ’ associations ’ which have attached to Stephen Duck 's name : ‘ Stephen Duck … had written one fine poem before the court and the church and neo-classicism patronised and emasculated him . ’ |
| 14 | As the crowds listened to Christ 's unconventional preaching and observed his miracles they acknowledged him as sent from God . |
| 15 | The good honest that kept your master 's worship house when he requires . |
| 16 | Mr Fletcher , 64 , from Ormskirk , said : ‘ I thought it was a good snap and sent it off but I did n't think any more about it . ’ |
| 17 | One thinks of the religious maniac who gripped one 's hand too firmly , hours earlier , on the Metropolitan Line and asked one , sincerely , to ‘ repent , ’ of the strange fellow who took umbrage at the book one was reading-The Boss ; J. Edgar Hoover And The Great American Inquisition-and accused one , for some unaccountable reason , of being no better than Norman Tebbit . |
| 18 | She lifted off a heavy daily and brought it to me . |
| 19 | United chopped and changed their team to face Leicester , but they still ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline . |
| 20 | Just in time , Dick developed a viral nasty that made him lethargic . |
| 21 | It was a faculty common to all good sailors , the essential extra that enabled them to meet the seas whatever the conditions so that their craft ran straight rather than in the long zig-zags of the helmsman imprisoned by the compass and only reacting to the swing of its needle . |
| 22 | He applied the flannel repeatedly , then wound it around her tender joint and fastened it again with the safety-pin . |
| 23 | He pulled the video-cassette free and gripped it in his free hand , the pistol still trained on the tall |
| 24 | Around the latter group were many who had tried the traditional Marxist left and found it wanting . |
| 25 | But about a month later I played in a trophy competition and played a disastrous round and put my handicap up to 16 which I 'm trying to get down by playing in two medal competitions in October . |
| 26 | Then he waited as one of the two Han brought him anti-static slippers while the other combed and plaited his hair . |
| 27 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |
| 28 | He was short and middle aged and carried his cloth cap in his hand . |
| 29 | Laura was never one to swim with every fashionable cross-current that came her way . |