Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Upon recovery from the overdose , Charles said he had not cared whether he lived or died at the time of taking the tablets , but wanted to show Ann how desperate he was feeling . |
| 2 | Gunfire was directed even at them and they fled or fell to the ground . |
| 3 | The treaty , covering the external aspects of German unification , complemented that signed by the two German states on Aug. 31 [ see p. 37661 ] and removed the last major obstacle to unification on Oct. 3 , 1990 . |
| 4 | The 1981 census found that compared with the national average of 14% , inner urban areas have particularly heavy concentrations of lone parent families . |
| 5 | Tiny pieces of skin shrivelled and cooked on the red-hot ring and wisps of smoke rose into the air . |
| 6 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 7 | A lecturer visiting a student on teaching practice tells of being mistaken for a parent and being kept standing in a cold corridor while behind a closed door the head shouted and screamed at a tearful child . |
| 8 | " Come on , lads , round the track ! " he shouted and pointed to a broad earthen path which circled the park . |
| 9 | Fran shrugged , turning her face away from his calculating scrutiny , studying the way the moonlight bounced and sparkled off the water with a fixed expression on her face . |
| 10 | They entered and asked for a room for the night and a meal of cold meat and beer , which they ate in the bar . |
| 11 | Regression coefficients and their standard error were calculated with a CYBER 855 computer for those variables which entered and remained in the regression equation . |
| 12 | They disembarked and stayed in a tavern near the Tower for the rest of the day . |
| 13 | She grieved for her father and worried about Maggie , but most of all she fumed and cried over the affair with James Halden . |
| 14 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 15 | BELOW : Guard , , society membership secretary is pictured with the carriages he designed and built for the railway . |
| 16 | They grumbled and stirred like a waking kraken . |
| 17 | In the previous section we described and accounted for the unequal distribution of wealth in Great Britain in terms of the ownership and control of forms of private productive property . |
| 18 | His eyes were still lingering on the curves hidden by the black material that caught and shimmered in the light as she moved . |
| 19 | Someone threw a bunch of red roses , which he caught and put on the bar . |
| 20 | The Shadowlands crumbled and disappeared below the hungry waves . |
| 21 | They hooted and waved at the boats as they whizzed by . |
| 22 | Himmler winced and said to the girl , ‘ Leave us . |
| 23 | Dave spun the truck round and we crashed and bumped along the rough track . |
| 24 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled shallows of the ocean . |
| 25 | It 's a word we use to talk about masses of undifferentiated humanity — like buying a pound of whitebait for your supper , rather than , say , 341 little silver fishes that once frisked and swam in the dappled depths of the ocean . |
| 26 | She rose and stared through the window to the hills outside , to the sea running gently into the embracing arms of the bay . |
| 27 | Her breasts rose and fell on a shaky little breath and a fierce warm ache assailed her loins , the pit of her stomach , her innermost being . |
| 28 | The ferry was in ; it rose and fell on the swelling Grönsund . |
| 29 | He rose and fell on the sickening see-saw of his terror and delight . |
| 30 | They rose and fell on the beach of silence . |