(1) Marion spoke, eager to break the tense silence.

(2) Don't tense your shoulders, just relax.

(3) She sounded tense and angry.

(4) Take a warm bath to soothe tense, tired muscles.

(5) The atomosphere of tense expectancy sobered everyone.

(6) The situation grew increasingly tense.

(7) Every nerve in her body was tense.

(8) Tina was tense[http:///tense.html], her hand poised over the telephone.

(9) There is no exactly equivalent French tense to the present perfect tense in English.

(10) The audience was tense as they waited for the acrobat to jump.

(11) Is the rope tense?

(12) We were tense with expectancy.

(13) I was feeling a bit tense and restless.

(14) The two countries began to discuss their tense relations.

(15) The massage relaxed my tense back muscles.

(16) Try to act naturally, even if you're tense.

(17) The past tense of 'take' is 'took'.

(18) A bath can relax tense muscles.

(19) After three very tense weeks he phoned again.

(20) The tense silence was punctuated by bursts of gunfire.

(21) " Caught " is an irregular past tense form.

(22) Anything was preferable to the tense atmosphere at home.

(23) She was tense, almost afraid to open the letter.

(24) She realized how tense she was and consciously relaxed.

(25) She tried to relax her tense muscles.

(26) A massage will relax those tense muscles.

(27) His humorous remark lightened the tense atmosphere.

(28) My arms are tired, and my back is tense.

(29) Add -ed to all these verbs to put them in the past tense.

(30) This gesture of goodwill did little to improve the tense atmosphere at the talks.

(1) Marion spoke, eager to break the tense silence.

(2) Don't tense your shoulders, just relax.

(3) She sounded tense and angry.

(4) Take a warm bath to soothe tense, tired muscles.

(5) The situation grew increasingly tense.

(6) Every nerve in her body was tense.

(7) Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone.

(8) Add -ed to all these verbs to put them in the past tense.

(9) There is no exactly equivalent French tense to the present perfect tense in English.

(10) This gesture of goodwill did little to improve the tense atmosphere at the talks.

(11) The audience was tense as they waited for the acrobat to jump.

(12) We were tense with expectancy.

(13) " Caught " is an irregular past tense form.

(14) She realized how tense she was and consciously relaxed.

(15) He's a very tense person.

(16) In narrative, the reporting verb is in the past tense.

(17) She droned on for hours about the uses of the present tense.

(31) Verbs inflect for tense and person.

(32) How do you say that in the future tense?

(33) He's a very tense person.

(34) Learn how to relax tense muscles.

(35) He read the letter with a tense anxiety.

(36) Do you know how to form the past tense?

(37) The verb is in the present tense.

(38) Tense up the muscles in both of your legs.

(39) A tense silence had settled over the waiting crowd.

(40) There's no point in getting tense about the situation.

(41) The weeks following the riots were extremely tense.

(42) Is anything wrong? You look a little tense.

(43) The tense atmosphere made everybody suffocate.

(44) Relax,[] and try not to tense up so much.

(45) The atmosphere at home was rather tense.

(46) If your muscles are tense, blood cannot circulate freely .

(47) The players were tense at the start of the game.

(48) In narrative, the reporting verb is in the past tense.

(49) Hendry won the world snooker title after a tense 35-frame final.

(50) While the politicians talk of peace, the situation on the ground remains tense.

(51) At the moment, the situation in Haiti is very tense.

(52) For a few tense minutes, the astronauts lost radio contact with mission control.

(53) "Do I look as if I am jesting?" she asked, her face pale and tense.

(54) Why is it doctor that I am always so nervy, tense and ready to jump on anybody.

(55) I think her husband must be dead - she always talks about him in the past tense.

(56) Massage is great if your neck and back are tense.

(57) The spirited mood on Friday was in sharp contrast to the tense atmosphere last week.

(58) She seemed nervous or tense, and she was definitely short with me.

(59) Never had she seen him so tense, so quick to take offence as he had been in recent weeks.

(60) It had been a tense, restless day with people crowding her all the time.

(61) I haven't heard from him lately. Lately is usually used with a perfect tense of the verb.

(62) She droned on for hours about the uses of the present tense.

(63) She coveted his job so openly that conversations between them were tense.

(64) Even a casual observer could hardly have failed to notice the heightening of an already tense atmosphere.

(65) 'I am' is the first person singular of the present tense of the verb 'to be'.

(66) He was sitting bolt upright on his chair, looking very tense.

(66) is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

(67) In the sentence "I stroked the cat", "stroked" is in the past tense.

(68) I spent a tense few weeks waiting for the results of the tests.

(69) There were some tense moments in the second half of the game.

(70) When we are tired, tense, depressed or unwell, we feel pain much more.

(71) This attack will exacerbate the already tense relations between the two communities.

(72) When we are under stress our bodies tend to tense up.

(73) It is difficult to be natural when one is tense.

(74) You can rely on him to crack a joke when things get tense in the office.

(75) I could feel myself tense up as he touched my neck.

(76) Dart, who had at first been very tense, at last relaxed.

(77) 'I have eaten' is the present perfect tense of the verb 'to eat', 'I had eaten' is the past perfect and 'I will have eaten' is the future perfect.

(78) His voice had lost its resonance; it was tense and strained.

(79) She was drilling the class in the forms of the past tense.

(80) Conditions are still very tense and the fighting could escalate at any time.

(81) In English the past tense of a verb is usually formed by adding 'ed'.

(82) singular of the present tense of the verb 'to be'.

(83) Williams's play is a tense contemporary three-hander about two murderers and a bank-robber.

(84) The atmosphere in the meeting was getting more and more tense.

(85) I cannot play the piano like I used to—my fingers have gone tense from lack of practice.

(86) The gentlest of her caresses would contort his already tense body.

(87) It was a day of tense and often ill-tempered debate.

(88) Although the situation was tense, her voice was calm and very assured.

(89) She was very tense as she waited for the interview.

(90) Even though her parents have long since died, she still talks about them in the present tense.

(91) If at any point you feel yourself becoming tense, make a conscious effort to relax.

(92) A flat, tense quality crept into her voice.

(93) Williams looked a little tense before the game.

(94) He looked almost as tense as she felt.

(95) The atmosphere in the meeting was tense.

(96) Amy was outwardly calm, but actually very tense.

(96) try its best to collect and create good sentences.

(97) But today the tense security atmosphere was obvious.

(98) They both looked ghastly white and tense.

(99) The atmosphere in the waiting room was extremely tense.

(100) There was a brief, tense silence.

(101) Inside the room, tense silence reigned.

(102) The meal was held virtually in tense silence.

(103) Her tone was anxious now, her face tense.

(104) You become tense, short-tempered and irritable with other people.

(105) I always feel tense after driving all day.

(106) So they sat in tense silence together, reading.

(107) There was suddenly a very, very tense atmosphere.

(108) So Allen lay tense and still, watching.

(109) The country was tense with suspense.

(110) He is tense, tired, spacey, wide awake.

(111) The whole atmosphere would tense up.

(112) He was tense now - on the defensive.

(113) Your muscles tense in readiness for physical action.

(114) Emily hunched forward over her handlebars, tense and determined.

(115) The policing of Northern Ireland therefore stands at a tense crossroads.

(116) Police officers and big guys in suits wearing earplugs, looking tense, had cordoned off a temporary pathway.

(117) He sat down on the bed near her and rubbed her shoulders but her body stayed tense.

(118) Stephen, lying in a shellhole with Byrne, felt his body tense with hatred at the sound of them.

(119) She sensed that mummy was growing tense with all the heat and noise and cigarette smoke.

(120) He could feel the hall go tense, it was as if the demon king had leapt up beside Digby on the platform.

(121) In looking at childhood photographs, her sullenness, always seeming to be apart, looking rather sour, tense.

(122) Caroline felt riveted to the floor, motionless, unwilling to consciously eavesdrop but tense with curiosity.

(123) Such a thin strange quavering noise, and such a tense awkward atmosphere had built up.

(124) He felt tense too, his muscles bunched hard under his thin shirt as she ran her hands across his shoulders.

(125) Tense soldiers detonated concussion grenades in an effort to disperse the crowds.

(126) Words are exchanged,[http:///tense.html] and there is a tense moment or two.

(127) There was a tense silence, and then everyone began to laugh.

(128) Mary's problems at work were making her tense and irritable.

(129) This is written in paragraphs explaining in the past tense what has been seen.

(130) Temporal distance is encoded by the past tense, reflecting content time, which is separate from coding time.

(131) On the pitch I had noticed that the players had become a little more tense.

(132) It is a single-elimination tournament(), which should provide many tense moments.

(133) His shoulders felt tense and the top of the range hissed as a tear escaped from his eyes.

(134) However, both arguments are spurious, for there is a very loose connection between tense and time.

(135) It was a tense moment but, luckily, he said yes so the seven-part series was under way.

(136) There is a tense contradiction in the use of language in this book.

(137) They drove slowly along the main street, Juliet too tense to see the pretty shops selling antiques and gifts.

(138) I felt a tense atmosphere of anxiousness build between us.

(139) As he pulled into the carport, Doreen appeared at the kitchen window, face tense with worry.

(140) In the tense silence that followed, the boys fidgeted uneasily.

(141) Tense, therefore, can be deictic in as much as it can be used to encode specific temporal relations with respect to the encoder.

(142) If you are tense try some of the natural relaxant products that are available from health food stores, rather than taking drugs.

(143) When you are tense it is hard to relax but that is just what you need to do.

(144) Race relations, cordial when blacks and whites had earlier shared a sense of purpose, grew increasingly tense.

(145) Eddy knows how to write page-turning, tense prose, and whips through big set-piece scenes with gusto.

(146) It must have been a busy day, Trevor; you sound tense.

(147) They stared silently at the impenetrable curtain surrounding the ship, and each face was tense with anxiety.

(148) I emphasize the tense because Congress has the habit of letting itself off the hook when convenient.

(149) The grammatical syllabus concentrates on verb forms, in particular the tense system, and modal verbs.

(150) Faced with this living miscegenation, I had spells of getting all minimalist, which rendered things a bit tense.

(151) It was tense for a few minutes ... but it was the first home game ... and the first win at stake.

(152) She lost her balance and fell against him, feeling the muscular body tense and brace itself to stop her falling further.

(153) The scary bits created tense silence, while relieved cheers followed the good moments.

(154) Second, it avoids the need to use the future perfect tense.

(155) Chastising By chastising a horse, we only make a tense situation worse.

(156) The occupants of the car in front were staring straight ahead, not talking to each other, very tense.

(157) The present tense is generally also used when telling a story, as in a summary of the narrative of a novel.

(158) In each case try to focus your mind on the part of your body that has in turn been made tense and relaxed.

(159) Harrison writes in the present tense, excising names, places, location, time frame.

(160) Yet the bowlers defended well, and only Richardson mastered them so that the closing overs were tense.

(161) The officials we met in the capital looked suspicious and tense, as if they were expecting us to declare war on them.

(162) Finally lift the head, take a deep steady breath and you will feel less tired and tense.

(163) The present tense is used in this case because it carries a sense of immediacy and impact.

(164) Everyone looks so brisk in fresh suits of upright postures, so stiff and tense their buds won't open.

(165) He knew he was quite safe, yet he felt increasingly tense as he ascended the steep path in the faint light.

(166) Should the pill prove too bitter, it will add considerable strain to already tense east-west relations.

(167) P make sure the statement is in the present tense.

(168) At night I fall into bed weary instead of tense.

(169) As the months went by and peace initiatives came and went, the situation on the border became increasingly tense.

(170) The atmosphere was tense and all realised it was heads down for a full house.

(171) According to the few aid workers remaining in the town, the mood there is tense.

(172) He was too sleepy to form specific questions and answers, and too tense to get to sleep.

(173) I leave each day drained, from the not-learning as well as from the tense interactions among my classmates.

(174) Maryland Coach Gary Williams looks so tense sometimes I think his head is going to pop right off his shoulders.

(175) So the Task Force sped on toward its goal, every ship now tense and ready for battle.

(176) She also acts vividly, and the card game and last-minute rescue are effectively tense.

(177) His collar felt itchy and he could smell some strange tense body-smell coming from his armpits.

(178) Everyone worked in tense silence, concentrating on their own particular task.

(179) As the tense muscles begin to relax, sometimes pent-up emotions are also freed.

(180) If your muscles are tense and tight, blood cannot circulate freely.

(181) Wilkinson was the first to leave, walking out of the room abruptly and looking somewhat tense.

(182) He scanned her tense expression, his eyes crinkled up against the sun.

(183) Even at that distance, I could see that his mood was dark, his face tense.

(184) I can feel you're really tense in your lower back.

(185) They looked horrible and gave their fans some unnecessarily tense moments.

(186) Rafah, the home of many of the murdered labourers, was especially tense.

(186) is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

(187) It was a long, tense moment as they adjusted the ropes and wrestled with the banner in their precarious position.

(188) The atmosphere inside the plane immediately became tense, five pairs of eyes scanned the starry sky, they could see nothing.

(189) I sat in the right seat with my hands and feet near the controls, waiting, tense, scared.

(190) She was tense, almost afraid to breathe, almost afraid to meet his gaze.

(191) The negotiations became increasingly tense as the weeks went by.

(192) Piers took a step towards her, and she felt her body tense and her heart begin to beat quickly.

(193) Every time you find a patient talking in past tense instead of present tense he is not returned to an incident.

(194) Complete the sentences using either the simple past or present perfect tense of the verbs.

(195) This problem is accentuated by pilots being very tense and mis-timing the stick movements.

(196) Are there any significant departures from the use of the simple past tense?

(197) To do this you can read texts, making systematic changes of person, tense, and vocabulary items.

(198) To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. Pearl Bailey 

(199) I can vividly remember the tense atmosphere prevailing amongst all Washington crews during December 1952 and January 1953.

(200) It's a tense moment not helped by the failure of the electrical apparatus to fire the devices.

(201) She felt grubby, tired and, now that the car had pulled up outside the cottage, sickeningly tense.

(202) Some shuffle and bustle along, with stiff, tense movements, head poking forward.

(203) In front of tense townspeople she blurted out words that a Bible commonwealth had to condemn.

(204) A tense situation prevailed for the vote, as 5,000 troops and riot police stood in a state of preparedness.

(205) Children will be pulled in two directions between their natural parents and may well have tense relationships with their step-parents.

(206) Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense. Sarah Dessen 

(207) Try not to tense the muscles so hard that you produce cramp or pain.

(208) Switching from the future to the present tense has other advantages.

(209) If you fail to experience tension you must try to develop your own exercise which serves to tense that particular muscle group.

(210) The generally tense atmosphere also gave rise to perceptual errors.

(211) The chief acting honours, however, go to Jean Marsh as the tense but battle-hardened Miss Madrigal.

(212) In 1757 Woolman made a second journey into the South, where he found slave owners tense and even hostile to him.

(213) It was a long drive from the airport, made tedious by the unnatural, tense silence in the cab.

(214) Do you feel the person is especially silent, agitated or tense?

(215) The exercises in Chapter 3 are helpful for students learning the future tense.

(216) He could not distinguish her words but she sounded harassed and tense.

(216) try its best to gather and create good sentences.

(217) When he sat down again there was a long, tense silence.

(218) Gazzer felt his tired body relax as the heat unknotted tense and aching muscles.

(219) A government-run press centre in the tense Presevo valley area bordering Kosovo claimed special police had thwarted the abduction attempt.

(220) As if struck by invisible lightning, she felt her whole body tense and prickle with reaction.

(221) Bernstein was unable to construct anything other than disjointed school-book phrases in the present tense.

(222) For instance(), the past tense of regular verbs is expressed by adding -d or -ed to the infinitive.

(223) It was a tense moment for everyone because he couldn't control where he landed or his speed.

(224) You can see it in their eyes -- years of tense situations and busting cocaine mules.

(225) This is not to say that there have not been tense moments in the sub.

(226) My knees, drawn up and tense, push against my forehead.

(227) He had arrived late, which was unlike him, and seemed tense and irritable.

(228) When someone mentioned Andy's time in prison, the atmosphere grew tense.

(229) In the program, the hostages re-live the tense days they spent under guard in East Africa.

(230) She is too frightened, too tense, like a coiled creature ready to do harm.

(231) Laura and I sat in tense silence, listening to the creak of the stairs.

(232) I was becoming so tense that my head, neck and even my eyes were always so painful.

(233) You seem awfully tense - why don't you have a drink and try to relax?

(234) I was always tense, afraid I would miss the flight.

(235) After tense negotiations the idea of steaming in a circle was proposed.

(236) I tried parries, but they were tight, tense, and ineffective.

(237) In the same company, during tense labor negotiations, the power of the industrial relations department increases.

(238) The former wrote of the apostles in the past tense.

(239) For the next three weeks my career was in the past tense.

(240) Bjorn applied pressure in a tense finale by putting his drive on the fairway.

(241) And looking tense and grim-faced, he walked slowly to the pulpit and read a statement from a small piece of paper.

(242) Rachel sat in tense silence beside the detestable Damian Flint.

(243) The move comes at a tense time for the Los Angeles police department.

(244) Families have the worry of trying to keep things together and trying to be supportive in a tense situation.

(245) Humans have no problem in determining that this is the past tense of the verb preach.

(246) A tense atmosphere is easy to create on stage with some sinister music and creepy sound effects.

(246)

(247) Tense, silent, on the chair by the table with its flower bowl and its dish of cracked apples.

(248) Ivor got drunk during the meal, which was slightly tense at one point.

(249) Relations between the two neighbouring states had been tense in recent years because of the Bougainville conflict.

(250) The journey through the mountains went well even though there were a few tense moments when the car skidded.

(251) Guy stood still, glittering eyes narrowed on Isabel for a long, tense minute.

(252) She lived in the present tense of the school with its totally absorbing pattern of routine and minor rebellion.

(253) Humour, too, can be a way of breaking a tense atmosphere.

(254) In generative phonology, the claim is that, at the abstract level, vowels are simply tense or lax.

(255) Kathy Rooney stood in for Mr Wogan, and I was a bit tense when it came to the real thing.

(256) His closely shaven face was tense and his usually sensuous mouth set in a grim line.

(257) There was a tense confrontation between Allen and the other commissioners.

(258) There was the crunch of his feet rapidly moving away over the snow and she felt her tense muscles relax.

(259) They seem less tense(), more even-tempered.

(260) Those are real present tense, and irreplaceable.

(261) Why does tense meeting cause costal region neuralgic?

(262) Always use the present tense of verbs.

(263) Then's now with now's then in tense continuant.

(264) Now, supercritical or super-supercritical firepower generator units are constructed in many places, in order to reverse power tense situation promptly.

(265) Wearing nothing but her underclothing, she outstretched her other smooth arm and lay her warm palm on his tense hands, still gripping the doorknob.

(266) Grammar Limited by person, number, tense, and mood. Used of a verb that can serve as a predicate or the initial element of one.

(267) B. Rewrite the following sentences, using the future perfect continuous tense of the verbs in brackets.

(268) I tried not to tense up, or become obviously wary.

(269) The option to solve the issue as a breakthrough, proposed a new automatic verification method based on formal theory for direction: namely, proof of program correctness based on tense logic.

(270) This paper deals with the tense system of systemic_functional grammar, which is one of the expansion type.

(271) The past tense of cook is formed by adding - ed.

(272) It's quite common, if someone agrees to do a favour, to use the future tense to promise a reward. So for example, you might say.

(273) This paper introduces the concepts and contents of commercial contract, and analyzes the language features of English commercial contract from the wording, structure, tense and voice.