Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My trainers squeaked down the stairs . |
| 2 | ‘ The main trouble was that I was sick with worry before tests and my feet froze on the pedals , ’ she said . |
| 3 | My clogs clattered on the steps and I looked back over my shoulder a couple of times to see if Frankie was following me , but he was n't . |
| 4 | I was not either , which probably explained why my kicks went between the posts ! ’ |
| 5 | Her fingers toyed with the ends of the fine saffron scarf she wore in her hair , a floppy bow peeping provocatively from her curls just below one ear . |
| 6 | There were two men in the front , both masked so that only their eyes showed through the slits . |
| 7 | A young woman came in from the booking-hall trailed by a ragged child , its legs pocked with the marks of vermin . |
| 8 | Their feet clumped down the stairs . |
| 9 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 10 | Their feet stumbled on the cobbles , and she gripped his arm . |
| 11 | In 1989 their parents asked for the twins ' photograph to be published in a Sunday newspaper and vowed that they would never be locked away in an institution . |
| 12 | Its headwaters began in the swamps south of what is now Orlando and flowed into Lake Okeechobee at the centre of the system . |
| 13 | I thanked him , and soon we were making our way along Anani 's main street , from which lanes led to the houses in the foothills behind . |
| 14 | But the Germans did not relent ; indeed the height of their efforts came in the years 1900–9 . |
| 15 | Most of her girlfriends lived with the hopes and aims of finding a husband among a crowd of men whose principal interests lay in rugby , racing and beer , and , of course , in getting a girl into bed if possible . |
| 16 | Her oerlikons blazed at the batteries on the harbour wall as Bill Copland calmly marshalled the assault parties . |
| 17 | Over it , the slender bones of her arms showed under the sleeves of her bedgown , with no roundness of flesh left anywhere . |
| 18 | Her knuckles whitened on the arms of her chair . |
| 19 | Her hands twitched on the letters ; she blinked once or twice . |
| 20 | Her hands went to the sheets again . |
| 21 | Day after day many of them sit at desks confined by four walls , their eyes glued to figures , their minds hassled by the problems of business . |
| 22 | Even so , a little frown of apprehension clouded her face as her thoughts strayed to the hours ahead . |
| 23 | A few other studies were made in the 1970s , by women , about the problems which unions raised for women as well as the problems which women raised for the unions ( Cunnison , 1983 ; Coote and Kellner , 1981 ; Stageman , 1980 ; Harrison , 1969 , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | Its companions hovered in the borders of light and shadow , hidden against the oaks . |
| 25 | Particularly the prosperous merchants and bankers , whose taxes paid for the police . |
| 26 | The included not only airmen from the Commonwealth , but also those from Europe whose countries had been overrun but whose airmen fought in the squadrons of the RAF . |
| 27 | They were able to show that a high proportion of the buildings that still front the main street leading from the church to the market place were retail shops , public houses and other commercial properties whose owners lived on the premises , usually above or behind the shop . |
| 28 | Many of those whose names appeared on the lists also complained , arguing that their overdrafts had been a product of the chronic inefficiency of the bank and its slack accounting procedures . |
| 29 | Mary Jane Wilson founded a religious order in the island , whose members worked in the hospitals and taught in the many parish schools . |
| 30 | But for some , particularly in a generation whose men fought in the trenches , marriage was a short interval before widowhood . |