Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 2 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 3 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 4 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 5 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 6 | The report showed that there were between 27,000,000 and 35,000,000 blind people in the world , over 90 per cent of whom lived in the developing world , mostly in rural areas . |
| 7 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 8 | Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths . |
| 9 | We have two grown-up children and one grandchild and I enjoy big family gatherings — the Italian influence again — with everyone seated at a round table . |
| 10 | The composition is saved from monotony by the subtle characterisation of these figures , and united by the concentration on them effected by the inward-facing chariot-teams and the looks of some of the seated figures and of the two reclining in the angles who frame the design . |
| 11 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 12 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 13 | In 1987 there were 3,500 new recruits , each of whom passed through a formal selection process . |
| 14 | Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell . |
| 15 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 16 | The general assumption by everyone involved on the Allied side , from 5 Corps up to AFHQ , had been that , in terms of the Yalta repatriation agreement , the " Cossacks " were Soviet citizens , and on that basis the decision in Principle had been made that , however much this may have regretted by some people on humanitarian grounds , the British obligation was to hand them over . |
| 17 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 18 | Nothing moved in the entire length of Westmuir Street . |
| 19 | Nothing moved among the tall crops . |
| 20 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 21 | Although this rank was that of a clerk , in the Constantian period it was applied to those officials who were responsible for the minutes of the imperial consistory and some of them rose to the highest ranks . |
| 22 | It is possible for us to image a society of saints in which no one committed what we see as crimes , in which everyone behaved in an impeccable manner . |
| 23 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 24 | The reason I asked for a preserved pension obviously to see whether there was any preserved benefits . |
| 25 | I asked for the usual guarantees — that the object would n't endanger my ship or anyone on it , and that carrying it would breach no SenFed laws . |
| 26 | I asked after a long pause . |
| 27 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 28 | With this in mind , I applied for a post-registration course , and eagerly looked forward to benefiting from a new , challenging and mature approach to nurse education . |
| 29 | I applied for the occasional post that I thought might be interesting , but never heard anything back . |
| 30 | The cats knock the garbage cans over and last week someone got into the front hall and smashed the mirror and the door . |