Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 2 | There are eight shades of Varnish or Cream which can be mixed or applied one on top of another |
| 3 | My pouch-seat automatically deepened and clutched me like an egg . |
| 4 | No sound , nothing but the gentle flurry of leaves as the wind lifted and scattered them like pieces of gold across the grass . |
| 5 | He assumed the mural was being discarded and took it to his studio , hoping to repair and perhaps eventually sell it , as he had done with other works from that period . |
| 6 | There was a bit of head-scratching as they pushed , squeezed and levered me into the passenger seat : ‘ The biggest bloke yet ’ . |
| 7 | His players respected and loved him as a result . |
| 8 | The Catholics , too , organised and armed themselves in anticipation of a Protestant backlash or about-turn by the security forces . |
| 9 | A sudden flurry of shots rang out from the direction of the cainca , confirming the older man 's prediction , and without further argument the two boys turned and followed him into the jungle at a run . |
| 10 | It was as if he had turned and hit me with his fist , I could n't hide it . |
| 11 | This network of friendship and patronage became one of the less objectionable instruments of nineteenth-century electoral corruption and the instrument with which the small man met and defended himself against the state . |
| 12 | These styles and modes of building merged and developed one into another at different dates in different countries . |
| 13 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |
| 14 | There the bailiffs pushed and shoved me through a porticoed entrance , down a long , dark , musty passageway into the main well of the court , fastening me to the bar ; beyond it sat the three magistrates before a square table ringed by clerks . |
| 15 | The Princess stirred and murmured something in her sleep . |
| 16 | The air in the passage stirred and folded itself about her . |
| 17 | But it was not until I was at Cambridge , in the following year , that my mother noticed and took me to the family doctor . |
| 18 | Vive l'Impératrice ! ’ , until at one moment the Emperor stopped and addressed himself to those nearest saying courteously : ‘ If you want to please your Emperor , I would ask you to cry ‘ Vive la Reine ’ . ’ |
| 19 | Here Ashley designed her tiles , painted and fired them in a small kiln . |
| 20 | The young men stripped and painted themselves in black and white imitation of the feather pattern on the predator : bringing the hunting eye of the eagle to the clan . |
| 21 | His unfailing support , wide advice , strong advocacy and practical help sustained and encouraged me from my start in September 1967 as FYT 's first paid staff person . |
| 22 | As she called in at the supermercado , toured the fruit and vegetable market , bought chicken legs from the Dutch butcher , a kaleidoscope of questions formed and reformed itself in her head . |
| 23 | Drop nets can also be bought or made yourself from netting available to repair prawn nets . |
| 24 | Ward had not lied or misled anyone about the nature of the payment or tried to conceal the money he had received . |
| 25 | He had respected her lack of interest in what others might have called sexual morality , had respected the fact that she had slept with him and neither offered nor expected anything in return . |
| 26 | She did n't actually hear him come back into the room ; it was just the feeling of being watched that alerted her to his presence , and she turned her head warily . |
| 27 | The typewriter clashed and harried him at night , never rhythmical enough to be ignored . |
| 28 | Quite remarkably , within the space of a few months , the industry reshaped and refashioned itself in advance of 27 October 1986 , the day on which the deregulation of commissions was to take place . |
| 29 | He considered him as he caused coffee to be produced and established them at the big table at the other end of his room . |
| 30 | He looked surprised at her request for a word in private , but readily agreed and led her across the hotel reception hall , out through a door at the rear of the building and into the garden . |