Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a scuffle broke out , Saville moved to get away out of the way and fell awkwardly . ’ |
| 2 | The tide was rising : it came filtering gently in through the salt-marsh vegetation , washing up the beach and receding , leaving ribbons of foam along the sand . |
| 3 | His glass eye — he had lost the original when he was cleaning a gun — seemed to swivel further out of true than usual and stared pleasantly at the fire ; the real one looked like a razor . |
| 4 | He came shambling shyly out of his room , his black face almost coy in the embarrassing anticipation of being thanked . |
| 5 | Tabitha hung her bag on her shoulder and came walking nonchalantly down from the cockpit , not even glancing up to see the great cables gliding rapidly down towards her head . |
| 6 | fifty eight roles he 'd done earlier on in his career and he wanted to sort of you know , have a go at everything |
| 7 | Maybe they 'd got straight down to it . |
| 8 | The prints spilled on to the carpet and as Sabine bent to retrieve them the young boy 's face seemed to glare directly up at her , challenging and inimical . |
| 9 | Well the earnings of course went into the business we 'd er There was Dad , he 'd retired then out of the pits , early . |
| 10 | He 'd waited for Lucy but then , when she had n't come out alone , he 'd stayed well back in the shadows . |
| 11 | In the third hour of darkness the climactic storm seemed to materialise overhead out of a sky barely dappled with clouds . |
| 12 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 13 | Then , when the war ended in the summer of 1945 , after being demobbed from Germany , he 'd gone straight back to the US , with no possible hope of any real communication between them except for one or two impermanent and unreliable addresses . |
| 14 | For years she 'd gone blithely on in her own way , enjoying the applause , proud that she could send audiences home happy , laughing and satisfied at the end of one of her shows . |
| 15 | It 'd gone right out of my mind until just now . |
| 16 | In all the euphoria following the successful birth , and the tea- and sandwich-making with Mrs Chalk afterwards , she 'd gone quietly along with everyone 's air of respectful gratitude for Guy , who 'd saved the day , whisked Lucy to hospital , kept everyone calm and optimistic , loomed in the background like a rock of dependable strength . |
| 17 | The sensation seemed to spread right down to the very pit of her stomach . |
| 18 | Now once he 'd stepped forward on to the on to the shore what happened ? |
| 19 | I opened the door for Patterson and then locked the cab up after he 'd stepped gingerly on to the pavement . |
| 20 | Over the piece , however , United took more out of the game . |
| 21 | ‘ That said , I felt we deserved to take more out of the game and I will need to check the papers before I believe the result . ’ |
| 22 | And the darkness in this cave had a peculiar density which seemed to close right in over her , like a suffocating blanket . |
| 23 | Adam ran crashing downhill in a narrow dark ride , almost into the arms of a man who came striding suddenly out of the bushes , sword in hand . |
| 24 | Lori seemed to shudder right through to her very bones ; then it was as if she had shaken off a darkness that had possessed her for too long . |
| 25 | She turned to stare fixedly out of the window , furiously blinking away the moisture which was threatening to fill her eyes , and trying to ignore a large lump which seemed to have become stuck in her throat . |
| 26 | Staggering slightly , it turned to stare balefully back at them , standing broadside on . |
| 27 | Now he stepped into the street , head down , and began to trot quickly back towards his house , about half a mile away . |
| 28 | She turned away from him and began to walk blindly back to the car . |
| 29 | A few places further down the dale had got it at once , and then it began to advance further up towards us . |
| 30 | Lucie began to look nervously around for fear it was part of an ambush by footpads . |