Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [coord] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked around with a bright smile , which turned to surprise and a hint of dismay . |
| 2 | As the piece of soap in the bathroom began to diminish or a toilet roll grow thin , so the replacement would be moved from the Base Depot to the Command Depot — a cupboard upstairs . |
| 3 | The next moment , the railway lines began to shake and a train came screaming out of the tunnel . |
| 4 | Gradually contact with street prostitutes began to grow and a relationship of trust began to be established . |
| 5 | But the pressure soon began to tell and a year after their marriage three-times wed Mr Friend left . |
| 6 | My eyes started to blink and a lump stuck in my throat … if you have ever seen a dog barking in French , wagging not only its rudder but its complete hind quarters , and trying to punch you in your chest at the same time — there you have Emily 's welcome in a nut-shell . |
| 7 | The place does n't get cleaned up and Jonquil put to sleep and a meal ready just by sitting on your arse in a pub . |
| 8 | Here , some teachers found themselves , often for the first time in their careers , with the opportunity to engage in depth with a small number of individuals , yet were not always able fully to exploit the possibilities because sustained questioning and discussion at that level required them to have a clear framework of the kinds of question they wished to promote and a grasp of the ways a sequence of such questions related to the wider map of the curriculum area in which a particular learning task was located . |
| 9 | Someone had fainted and a woman was loosening his shirt and running water over his head . |
| 10 | By early 1989 over 230 parties had registered and a total of 93 parties contested the May 1990 elections . |
| 11 | By that time , as Adam said , you would actually have been shocked if the temperature had dropped or a shower of rain fallen . |
| 12 | The Arussi , and Muslim and pagan tribes from Ginir to Dolo , had risen and a revolution in Tigre was generally expected . |
| 13 | The club-house door had opened and a man came carefully out . |
| 14 | At Southway School yesterday the mountain of flowers outside the gates continued to grow and a number of pupils shed tears as they read the many messages of sympathy . |
| 15 | I rang to say I had arrived and a car came from Fulmer to meet me . |
| 16 | This had arrived and a copy had been sent to Inspector Lane . |
| 17 | The crowd had gone and a serjeant-at-arms , wearing the florid livery of the city threw dice with his two companions , ignoring the grim carrion swaying just above their heads . |
| 18 | There was a lot of activity around the orchard as we arrived back at H.Q The sniping had increased and a mortar attack seemed to be under way . |
| 19 | In this , there was both a narrowing of vision of what higher education had to offer and a compartmentalism of that offering . |
| 20 | A dog ran barking and a man shouted at it . |
| 21 | An early morning mist had cleared and a fugitive sun glinted on leaves which were only now beginning to yellow and which hung in heavy swathes , almost motionless in the still air . |
| 22 | Within seconds the smoke had cleared and a flame shot up , strong and high . |
| 23 | out , it had blown and a flash had gone onto my cotton dressing gown my towelling |
| 24 | The action had been struck out at first instance , an appeal to the Court of Appeal had failed but a petition for leave to appeal to the House of Lords was still pending . |
| 25 | The reduction gear linking engine and propeller had failed and a broadside of bits had hit the prop which then added to the shrapnel . |
| 26 | Tealtaoich paused again and stood waiting and a murmur of approval went through the others . |
| 27 | You could guarantee that if you waited top of one of those yards that somebody would be fighting or wanted to fight or a window could get broken or , or either men or women . |
| 28 | Although providing a degree of flexibility to cope with ground settlement , this type of joint tended to leak and a cement filling was added to it with the whole pipe laid on a bed of concrete carried up the sides . |
| 29 | He stood swaying and a jug of wine . |