Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [coord] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room service kind of crept in and since we did n't have any cash , we charged meals . |
| 2 | To her shock and horror his head swooped down and as his mouth claimed hers so impassionately a flash of hope surged in her heart like a spear of lightning out of a blackened sky . |
| 3 | We know how the murderer got in and where he lurked , the only problem is how he got out . ’ |
| 4 | Almost screaming , I staggered back and as I glared wildly I saw Shep disappearing at top speed towards the gate . |
| 5 | Circular discs with numbers on were pulled from a bag , the numbers shouted out and when your card was full you leaped to the top of the house . |
| 6 | I think I was mentally prepared for gay liberation in 1970 when it came along and when I did encounter it it swept me along quite easily . |
| 7 | Er we was on the beach , you know sea front , he 'd er gathered some er brands of seaweed for making what they call Irish moss , Caragium And that would give you a good think emulsion , you see then in the , what was the cod season , cod fishing , you 'd go down to the harbour where the er fishing boat came in and where they were cleaning , and you 'd get the boss would have arranged that you get the cod 's livers . |
| 8 | She very rarely got told off and when she did it upset her . |
| 9 | Katherine walked in and as she did so heard the smooth engine of the Rolls pulling away . |
| 10 | signed up and until they give us a firm this is it |
| 11 | If it was you who answered the telephone , they hung up but when you were away riding they spoke to me . |
| 12 | They were brilliant times to live in he then me uncle Ed come on leave , from France , yeah I had a look at his rifle he used to bring all his equipment cos they did n't know if the units had moved when they got back and if they used to be lucky enough to get a leave , they used to have to bring all their equipment with them you see and he used to bring his rifle , everything on leave , and I , I always remember asking him why he had n't , if he 'd killed any Germans , why he had n't got any notches on his rifle he erm |
| 13 | Erm Jack the foreman he got out and when he when he retired cos you know |
| 14 | She became there as the week went on and as we seriously , intently were able to talk to her and even comb her hair . |
| 15 | The girl 's every smile , every glance , was filled with adoration that grew more and more obvious as the evening went on and as her consumption of champagne increased . |
| 16 | Cost cutting went on and as I say will continue in ninety three and ninety four . |
| 17 | Anyway , it was a lon , there 's a little restaurant in the road , and it was back of sort of erm Mar , if you wal , you crossed over and if you went through a little slip where it came , you came into this little arcade of shops where o , about in the road next to er |
| 18 | I reported them when I went up but whether there was any success in the things I just do n't know . |
| 19 | Over the next few days , more posters went up and as I read them , students whispered that ‘ something might happen ’ . |
| 20 | But er they grew up and since I 'm the youngest , obviously they were earning a little bit of money in some way . |
| 21 | He had nine years at Leeds , where his children grew up and where he became a specialist in building matters and worked closely with architects on the planning of major buildings . |
| 22 | I went out and while I was out I knew something was wrong . |
| 23 | And we started her off and she went round and as she went past the second time she said I ca n't stop ! |
| 24 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 25 | That meant he carried on and when someone at the last moment dropped out , he dropped in ; it was more or less par for the course that , by the end of 1944 , a very large number of Pathfinders had notched up 70 or more sorties . |
| 26 | A long arm shot out and before she could scream or struggle she was pulled into the car and into strong arms . |
| 27 | Without pausing , she hurried on and although I called after her she did n't stop until she had reached the other side and scrambled up the rocky gully to the top . |
| 28 | She almost staggered back to the kitchen table and sat down and as she did so the kitchen clock struck nine . |