Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They pinched his toes and rubbed the back of his heels and made a rat-tat sound on the stone flags that echoed through the spooky quiet to announce his presence . |
| 2 | They started drinking before the parson ever arrived and , when he did , fell upon the beer kegs that came on the same cart as though they were men dying of thirst . |
| 3 | development which only just exceeds that permitted by the General Development Order , Class I ( development within the curtilage of a dwelling-house ) , Class VI ( agricultural ) and Class VIII ( industrial ) developments ; |
| 4 | Pristina is surrounded by artillery ranges that belonged to the old Yugoslav army . |
| 5 | He looked about the room , conscious suddenly of the lowness of the ceiling , of the dark oak beams that divided up the whitewashed walls , the fresh cut roses in a silver bowl on the table in the corner . |
| 6 | RIGHT A view of Tel Megiddo in Israel looming above the landscape shows the size of tells that formed in the Near East through continuous habitation of the site . |
| 7 | Zweig explains that faced with the vast quantities of surviving documents in conventional archives few historians can be comprehensive , but with an electronic archive and a toolchest filled with versatile software historians could work with digital information more exhaustively ( 1993 : 256 ) . |
| 8 | While the majority of research students were holding SERC awards that ended in the third quarter of 1984 , just over one in ten had other end dates , as Table 6.1 shows . |
| 9 | But these bright spots were dimmed by the assassination of the Western-orientated Hashemite royal family in Baghdad on 14th July 1958 during the Nasser-inspired coup , which ended Britain 's treaty relations with Iraq and led to the RAF 's withdrawal from the Habbaniyah and Shu'aiba air bases that lay on the air-reinforcement route to the Far East . |
| 10 | Visual information from neurons in these zones supplements that provided from the three semicircular canals and is distributed in parallel with it to the part of the brain that controls our balance , the cerebellum . |
| 11 | Many , therefore , blamed Callaghan for the explosion in union wage claims that followed in the early seventies . |
| 12 | ‘ So long as you do n't gossip with him , no , ’ he said flatly , and turned on his heel to stride coolly out on to the terrace again , so tall he had to dodge the metal chimes that hung over the french windows . |