Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I feel sure that the German Luftwaffe must have looked at it especially the leaders , and saw where the Eighth Airforce hit and seeing what we did and gave them some thought and consideration , actually with our Bomb Group going in we had no fighter attacks on the way in over the target , we had flack but we did not have air opposition , then on the way back we crossed the Danish peninsula and I think of course by this time the Luftwaffe knew we were coming back that way , and they had the fighters up there and this was our first time being on this mission that we saw air to air combat with the fighters against the flying fortress and in our ammunition , in our guns there , every fifth bullet was a tracer and it was amazing to me that as the German fighters came in it looked like just a hail of tracers going out but they were able to get in there knock down a B Seventeen and leave , it seemed , unscathed untouched it almost seemed impossible to me that a fighter could go through that many bullets and escape unharmed . |
| 2 | Unfortunately the tone in which they are expressed , and the language they are couched in , prevent our taking them in that way , and recall for us rather the heads of Auden 's indictment : ‘ lazy … too easily bored … persuaded beyond argument … ’ |
| 3 | Visualise the air you breathe in as clean and white and the air you exhale as dark and black , which takes with it both the toxins of the body and the troubles of the mind . |
| 4 | And whenever Patrick consecrated a church , he was said to have left in it both the Gospels and a copy of the Mosaic Law . |
| 5 | Among the four Rachmaninov songs , the oriental-sounding Never sing to me again the songs of Georgia was particularly dark , rich and poignant . |
| 6 | In related families , the skin has spines and needles attached to it so the creatures are known as echinoderms , " spiny skins " . |
| 7 | When I turned on the dishwasher or washing machine , the power required was taken out of the underfloor heat and returned to it immediately the machines were switched off . |