Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | where coins disappeared in the lining ; |
| 2 | Gainsharing is favoured in many US hospitals , where surveys highlighted in the RNC report show that managers and nurses feel PRP is a potential demotivator . |
| 3 | So when he was asked to act as a German — Italian interpreter whenever soldiers or officers appeared in the village , he could only agree . |
| 4 | A year of peace with the city would follow , provided that , as the city expected , a relief ship or ships arrived before the end of that period , passed the chain and entered the harbour of Famagusta . |
| 5 | Where invoices recorded on the statement have not been received or have been mislaid , copies will be required from the supplier . |
| 6 | Then arrange some flowers in the vase , remembering to position a few so that they overlap the top of the vase to soften as many hard lines as possible , with perhaps one or two leaves or flowers ranged around the base of the vase for a more natural effect . |
| 7 | As it is often difficult for users to give accurate references to the area of software to which their report applies , the nominated user depends on any software issues or modules referenced by the SPR . |
| 8 | As it is often difficult for users to give accurate references to the area of software to which their report applies , the nominated user depends on any software issues or modules referenced by the SPR . |
| 9 | There are no longer any single ‘ keys ’ that uniquely define the document or documents wanted by the user . |
| 10 | Serious collectors ( and there are only a handful in the world ) are looking for pre-sinking letters , postcards or photographs disembarked at the Titanic 's last port of call , Queenstown ; signals or accounts of the sinking ; or , best of all , something that was actually in the ill-fated vessel . |
| 11 | Then she put the apple pie into the range oven and slammed the door so hard that coals fell into the grate . |
| 12 | It has already been noted that contemporaries complained of the prevalence of this crime . |
| 13 | ‘ I started screaming so loudly that crowds ran to the scene which eventually made the policemen stop . ’ |
| 14 | On Saturdays , after dinner , concerts of classical music were so popular that artists sat on the floor or perched on tables to listen . |
| 15 | This was a reflection , I thought , of the marginal impact that blacks had on the lives of the characters in the work as well as the creative imagination of the author . |
| 16 | Perhaps a draw was more than Rangers deserved on the night . |
| 17 | When the revolution came , artists and students continued their association , with artists designing many of the posters that students plastered across the city . |
| 18 | The Fifties graduate mothers were no more inclined to argue with the infallibility of Freud than monsignori argued with the infallibility of the Pope . |
| 19 | The nights grew colder , but in the early morning the rising sun was caught a thousand times in the droplets of moisture that formed in the webs that spiders wove across the bars of Creggan 's cage . |
| 20 | The term ‘ hall ’ includes all the rectangular timber buildings whose only remains are the postholes and beam-slots dug into the subsoil . |
| 21 | In the winter spanners and hammers froze to the hands . |
| 22 | Both booking and grand halls were decorated in Royal Doulton faience to a height of 7 ft. ; each had mosaic floors and balconies ran round the walls at a height of 30 ft . |
| 23 | His beard and teeth got in the way . |
| 24 | The bringing together of school-leavers and vacancies began with the adolescent being interviewed at school , after which a form was completed by the headteacher and a member of the SCC , just as the ‘ Friendly Visitors ’ had done prior to 1910 . |
| 25 | Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land . |
| 26 | Though some theory is presented for each , the bulk of the information is the basic practical information and skills imparted to the client . |
| 27 | Large towns and cities existed throughout the country . |
| 28 | The day of the Agricultural Fair approached and passions rose in the village . |
| 29 | Shocked giggles and sniggers ran round the company . ’ |
| 30 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |