Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] [vb past] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left Helen and went to have a bath and in the cold steamy bathroom there came to him this vision of a distant unreal Helen looking — well , radiant was the unexpected word that came to mind — looking not her usual self at all in some frock that glowed and billowed and rustled as she came in at the front door late , pink-cheeked , a touch dishevelled and greeted by the stone wall of Dorothy 's disapproval . |
| 2 | Smoke that rippled and soared . |
| 3 | Accordingly , without ever rising from my sordid bed , I lay and groaned and babbled , and altogether gave a wonderful impression of a man in extremity . |
| 4 | She felt as if she was struggling through a nightmare syrup that suffocated and hampered , and yet still this walk was too short — too short ! |
| 5 | A barter economy still prevailed widely in 1922 , so that alcohol was a money substitute that kept and travelled better than grain . |
| 6 | Marxist and elitists of course argue that expressed or perceived political preferences can he distinguished from ‘ objective ’ interests . |