Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His blood vessels dilated or contracted in different parts of his body . |
| 2 | Being a representative of a national race committee , I 'm often dismayed at the ne the lack of black people demonstrated or portrayed in Direct . |
| 3 | Blue light , and silver and bronze , streamed and bounced and danced through tall windows . |
| 4 | Fairview New Homes has a number of sites in North East London designed and priced for first-time buyers . |
| 5 | This means that , in the main , all SCOTVEC awards are now approved , validated and verified to common quality assurance criteria . |
| 6 | Polly found herself staring at his thighs , mesmerised by the powerful muscles that bunched and flexed beneath bronzed skin dusted with gold-brown hair . |
| 7 | The lamp , a psychedelic icon , contained a brightly coloured waxy substance which rose and fell in strange blobs . |
| 8 | Even though , forged before the introduction of recoil mechanism , they bounced back and had to be relaid after each shot just like cannon of the Napoleonic era , the elderly French 155s cracked and thundered with remarkable accuracy . |
| 9 | I was within half a mile of Darrowby with the lights of the little town beginning to wink between the bare roadside branches when a car approached , went past , then I heard a squeal of brakes as it stopped and began to double back . |
| 10 | He stopped with his hands full of water ; it dripped and fell in little runnels on the earth , but he did not notice . |
| 11 | The young boy quickly became an authority on who received and dealt in stolen goods in London , who specialized in watches , clothes , foreign money , rings . |
| 12 | Sometimes the thread was misery , sometimes the black joy of an earth , blasted and left for dead , that went on labouring in darkness to renew itself . |
| 13 | Third , the political turbulence of the seventies born of economic failure and increasing unemployment , destroyed consensus and brought " conviction politics " and real choice back to the fore with a vengeance : the Conservatives rediscovered old roots in their opposition to state intervention and their commitment to the free market ; the Labour Party rediscovered socialism and attacked the free market of capitalism at the same time as they were eager to fashion an interventionist state ; the specifics of nationalist sentiment ebbed and flowed in unpredictable ways ; and only the Liberal-SDP Alliance seemed eager to try and recreate the moderate consensus politics and policies of the fifties , and they did this despite growing signs that the social and economic conditions that made those policies viable had ceased to exist . |
| 14 | Tenants came and went with great rapidity . |
| 15 | Wycliffe said that he did , which was something of a record , for Franks 's secretaries came and went with bewildering frequency , though all were to a common stamp . |
| 16 | Ten Tory MPs who came and went in mysterious circumstances |
| 17 | Sunday dinner was always a special one , culminating in Auntie 's home-grown fruit , stewed and covered in thick Cornish cream . |
| 18 | Green blood spurted wildly into the air , much of it landing into the stew pot where it fizzed and crackled like little gun shots . |
| 19 | The route was taking her over a highway that twisted and turned across central North Island mountain ranges where the air was fresh and clear . |
| 20 | Dunlin twisted and turned in fast-weaving silvery flocks . |
| 21 | Someone y'kin talk into givin' himself up when he finds himself cornered and surrounded by armed cops , an ’ he gits to feelin' scared an' sorry fer himself . |
| 22 | Carefully used , they were an instrument which enhanced and profited from royal authority . |
| 23 | I met and talked with English scientists , and learnt many useful things from them . |
| 24 | The train was a shabby affair of two antique carriages which creaked and pitched like tethered ships . |
| 25 | Ruth tried not to show her terror when the timbers creaked and moaned like tormented spirits and she could hear the waves breaking on the deck above them . |
| 26 | The problems endured and created by large cohorts seem considerable and there is no reason why Easterlin effects should not be recognized and incorporated into other models . |
| 27 | Alexei knew that he had always been aware of her — they were not strangers by any means — but now he straightened and stared in open admiration . |
| 28 | However , it appears that , if the ice motion is slowed or temporarily halted against a barrier , the snow will be stripped away and the bare ice rippled and eroded by dry winds that continually course down the ice cap . |
| 29 | Albert 's dingy sink had been scoured to its original yellow colour , and the window above it gleamed and winked with unaccustomed cleanliness . |
| 30 | Daffodils and primrose fluttered and blushed from warm corners . |