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 | In contrast , social purists argued that to speak out was vital . |
| 8 | Severed segments writhed and melted . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Foreign observers sniggered and called him a basketball player . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 13 | How are social relations visualized and operated when they are not moulded by the impersonal ideology of capitalism ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | British ships overtook and sank two of them , the third , the Dresden , escaped but was sunk in March 1915 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Old ladies mugged and beaten for their pitifully small savings ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Kop was strangely silent , watching impassively as several clear chances came and went . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Roman empire declined and fell , the Dark Ages came and went , new peoples settled round Vesuvius , and ultimately new towns began to spring up . |
| 22 | Family parties of long-tailed ties trilled and acrobat Ed in the willow scrub close by . |
| 23 | Several ex-conduit cars survived as works cars , such as car 8 seen here on New South Promenade c. 1926 . |
| 24 | The rich shade of the material brought out the glow of her cheeks and her dark eyes shone and danced with pleasure to be home . |
| 25 | As the remaining renegades shouted and cheered from shore , the noise woke local residents and members of the official party who dutifully called the coast guard . |
| 26 | Individual skirmishes flickered and stuttered in the distance . |
| 27 | And , as we know , resistant parasites emerged and spread explosively throughout Africa in the 1980s . |
| 28 | Since the great schism and the Reformation , the single truth had been broken up , but the Anglicans , the Orthodox and the Roman Catholics had and have part of it . |
| 29 | From the North West , Mary Paterson reports that the Annual Rally and four teacher-training days came and went successfully , and that they have reluctantly exported Chris Oakes to the Isle of Man , where her husband has been appointed Chief Constable . |
| 30 | Official figures showed that increases in petroleum prices [ see p. 39099 ] had pushed inflation to an annual rate of 10.03 per cent in the week ending Oct. 24 , up from a low of 8.8 per cent in mid-September [ see p. 39145 ] . |