Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What influences the young child is not so much what is said or meant by the adult 's question . |
| 2 | In some , you may conclude , she injected or introduced through the baby 's drip-feed another drug or mixture of drugs , for many were readily available to her . ’ |
| 3 | And Molly Malone was right : the gangway was little better than a ladder that clung to the ship 's side with fragile tenacity . |
| 4 | CYPRIOT club Apollon , Liverpool 's hosts in this week 's second leg Cup Winners Cup-tie , were involved in a riot on Saturday that led to a referee 's strike and postponement of yesterday 's Cyprus League games . |
| 5 | It was an awareness of this contrast that led to the Cubists ' interest in the violin and the guitar as plastic forms around 1910 . |
| 6 | " Of course , " he said , " of Course , " and he even showed her the corridor that led to the Ladies ' room , and she escaped , and they escaped from each other . |
| 7 | She could also have told this was Tina 's mother before Mrs Darne went off down the passage that led to the Headmaster 's Flat . |
| 8 | This move was probably motivated by the same considerations that led to the Perkins ' choice of a site near Harrow , and to its eventual abandonment . |
| 9 | He unlocked the companionway hatch that led to the yacht 's interior , glancing over his shoulder as he folded the doors back . |
| 10 | In the hallway , close to the door that led to the family 's rooms , was a small , wall-mounted console . |
| 11 | She sighed , then twisted on her stool to gaze in astonishment because a car was thumping and crashing its way along the dirt road that led from the island 's one village to Bonefish 's sprawl of shacks . |
| 12 | Pontikes also had direct personal experience due to a $500,000 investment in Saul Steinberg 's Reliance Capital Group Limited Partnership , a buyout and arbitrage firm with a roster of investors that amounted to a Who 's Who Among The Self-Made Rich . |
| 13 | She strode out of the cupboard that passed for the shuttle 's sick bay and into the cabin . |
| 14 | The changes that occurred in the City 's international role over the 1960s and '70s are explained and discussed in J. Coakley and L. Harris , The City of Capital ( Oxford , Basil Blackwell ; 1983 ) ; the international role of the City over a longer period is discussed in depth in L. Harris , T. Evans , J. Coakley and M. Croasdale , New Directions in the Financial System ( London , Croom Helm ; 1988 ) . |
| 15 | A recent parliamentary answer that drew on the Government 's own resources revealed that the Royal Navy was more modern in 1979 than it is in 1991 . |
| 16 | Five feet four or five at the most , looking almost as round as he was high , with a balding pate that rose like a monk 's tonsure through an unruly and still retreating fringe . |
| 17 | It was afternoon — the morning had gone on Crabb Robinson — which meant that all the ample , high , soft-blue leather desks along the spokes of the great wheel that radiated from the Superintendent 's desk , ensphered by the Catalogue , were taken , and he had to be content with one of the minimal flat triangular ends of the late-come segments inserted between these spokes . |
| 18 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 19 | Everyone in the place heard the gasp that came from the Trunchbull 's throat . |
| 20 | He would lash out at her and afterwards hide himself away in some shady corner where he would sit , his head lowered to his knees , engulfed in a dangerous brooding mood that lingered until the day 's end . |
| 21 | Raucous , insane laughter that drummed in the agent 's ears until he feared he would go deaf . |
| 22 | The same clear light that rested in the woman 's long dark hair like a faintly-jewelled mist . |
| 23 | After the monitor had gathered up the papers and placed them on the small , square , wooden table that acted as the sister 's desk , the class sat quiet , waiting anxiously for the verdict , a tick or a large cross , the while automatically mumbling Hail Marys . |
| 24 | There was even a deep cellar under the chicken run that served as the family 's fridge . |
| 25 | Once the glass was full he held it up to the lantern that hung from the awning 's strut and toasted whichever patient had paid for that afternoon 's bonefishing . |
| 26 | Patrick , 68 , was hit in the eye by a fast ball that flew off the wicket-keeper 's boot as he fielded in the slips . |
| 27 | She was no taller than I was and she wore a grey thing that looked like a schoolgirl 's dress . |
| 28 | Set out on the benches were models of various shapes : a globe , a long horn , a ring-doughnut , and one that looked like a horse 's saddle . |
| 29 | During one meal I swat one off my arm and ask Tor if he knows what was the last thing that went through the mozzie 's mind . |
| 30 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |