Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That opportunity arose sooner than expected in the Autumn of 1927 , when twelve cars were obtained in good condition from Croydon Corporation . |
| 2 | I started to dig in one corner of it , and I dug for six months , winter months , erm and erm managed a shallow pool which erm was n't what I had envisaged at all , but erm two snipe lived there and liked it . |
| 3 | This was fine until the wind direction changed slightly and came across the fixed line . |
| 4 | People can take part by doing any physical activity that makes the heart beat faster and lasts for 15 minutes . |
| 5 | In the final phase , in the seventh century , the settlement moved westwards and consisted of more isolated and separate farmsteads . |
| 6 | As we pulled through a grove of bedraggled trees , the horse shied violently and stood up on its hind legs , neighing , between the shafts , so that we were tipped backwards . |
| 7 | He pronounced a string of words in an unfamiliar tongue and , as he did so , the light changed abruptly and became dark and malevolent , tinged with purple . |
| 8 | That night in my areesh , wrapped warmly in my blankets , the wind rose again and began to make odd wind sounds as it pushed through the fencing . |
| 9 | Then the wind rose again and plucked his top hat off his head and sent it bowling among the stones . |
| 10 | She held the idea of death briefly between her hands ; but noticed how fast her mind darted away and took up sentimental pictures of her funeral , of her mother 's and grandmother 's distress , of her friends . |
| 11 | Sandy Scratchley 's jeep came past and picked them up . |
| 12 | When her husband began to sing a little , snapping his fingers in rhythm , she smiled and for a moment looked like a young girl again ; but the barman came immediately and reminded them that singing was not permitted . |
| 13 | He also took the keys to the car parked outside and drove off . |
| 14 | Then the boat lifted away and settled on the far side of the river . |
| 15 | On the third lesson the defendant drove negligently and hit a lamp post . |
| 16 | The figure turned stiffly and fixed them in a sightless gaze . |
| 17 | Nimbly dodging cars , vans and packs of youngsters on bicycles streaming homewards for their midday meal , the Frenchwoman skipped across and shook Melissa energetically by the hand . |
| 18 | The City lawyer nodded sagely and ordered another bottle of Rioja . |
| 19 | The City lawyer nodded sagely and ordered another bottle of Rioja . |
| 20 | It is presumed that ivalon injected to plug the liver biopsy leaked intraperitoneally and caused the foreign body reaction seen . |
| 21 | When I spoke about it th the barman rushed across and put the fans |
| 22 | The barman walked away and filled a tankard . |
| 23 | The bishop was harangued by ‘ fourtie wyfes of Prees ’ , one of whom ‘ rudeley began to take his horse by the bridell whereat the horse sprang aside and put the Bysshop in danger of a fall ’ . |
| 24 | The 1983 general election result fueled rather than ended the controversy . |
| 25 | The agreed national rural electrification programme proceeded faster than planned , and by 1958 72 per cent of farms were already connected . |
| 26 | The wind gusted outside and rattled the loosened boards . |
| 27 | Dot looked upwards and saw the smiling clown . |
| 28 | A SOLDIER has described the dramatic moment when he claimed a joyrider 's car sped past and struck him . |
| 29 | But the president knew better than to let him go ; Mr Shultz stayed the course . |
| 30 | Gradually the rock fell away and exposed , in astonishing perfection , the first complete and undistorted skeletons of the world 's earliest true fish . |