Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As time goes on the need for such support will , obviously , diminish — it 's more than likely that your staff will become more conversant with the product than the person who either sold or trained them on it .
2 She bounced and cuddled herself into half a dozen bright scatter cushions .
3 He stopped talking as Marshka entered and wheeled himself into the empty space at the table , at that end farthest , on the right-hand side , from the president .
4 Kalchu was ashamed of his drunkenness and Chola grumbled and rebuked him for it .
5 The process was patented by Squire in 1875 , and Squire and Messel described and demonstrated it before the Chemical Society the following April .
6 So remorseful was Shiva that he took the head of the first creature he encountered and placed it on the boy 's shoulders .
7 When Mme Fournier joined them , Flavia rose and relieved her of her market basket ; Fournier did neither .
8 On closer inspection the bundle of rags rose and revealed itself to be a woman , filthy dirty , her skin so grimy she was almost invisible in the gloom .
9 Her desperate words provoked a great shout of laughter from him , and , holding her firmly in his arms he rose and carried her towards his bedroom .
10 He rose and kissed her with spontaneous pleasure .
11 There was a noticeable hesitation before Tamar rose and kissed her on the cheek .
12 He rose and helped her to her feet , steadying her as she eased her weight on to the injured ankle .
13 But it was Wang Sau-leyan who rose and helped him from his chair ; who walked with him , his arm about his shoulder , to the steps .
14 I rose and faced her across the table .
15 She phoned and told me about your visit this afternoon ; however , I shall reserve the right to be sceptical a while longer .
16 When the entire pile had been transferred , she bunched the needles together with her hands and alternately stroked and beat them with her karaso , knitting them into a kind of rudimentary bale .
17 The inner spiritual resources which sustained and nourished her in her darkest hours are now manifested in her uncanny empathy with those in need .
18 He bent and twisted himself before it , jerking suddenly this way and that , as if he were lying in wait for disease , determined to pounce on it before it could strike .
19 White continues , ‘ As I never possessed the sense of smelling , and was willing to ascertain the flavour of the liquor , I tasted and found it to be aromatic , tho ’ not very pungent , partaking of the taste of catchup and of the pickle of Spanish olives . ’
20 You felt , tasted and swallowed it in an effort to breathe .
21 She stopped and halted him with a hand on his arm .
22 The tracking and following of the youths , through rush-hour traffic , took Tom through most of Edinburgh New Town , and culminated , almost an hour later , with his flagging down a Police motor cyclist who stopped and questioned them at Mackenzie Place/India Place .
23 Ryan stopped and clapped me on the shoulder .
24 She stopped and drew me behind a screen of goldenrod , tangled and wild like a neglected hedgerow .
25 He turned and caught her looking at him as they strolled idly along by the whispering dark Mediterranean , and impulsively he stopped and pulled her into his arms for a quick hard hug .
26 He stopped and pulled her into his arms .
27 He stopped and turned her towards him and tried to kiss her on the mouth .
28 She knelt and prised it from its bed .
29 He realized that accepting it as an office would have meant being pressed into staying late at night talking shop .
30 And all of the family starting to watch the boy more closely as he sailed or forced himself through one limit after the other — a talent , it was beginning to seem , in every pocket .
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