Example sentences of "[n mass] [coord] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They sold for $100 in a market used to paying only $25 and helped to create the ski boom of the 1950s . |
| 2 | Jack McGarva , defending , said his client was not responsible for all the graffiti but admitted causing the damage on a large number of occasions . |
| 3 | Clines , who was also fined $40,000 and ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution , had been convicted in September 1990 of filing false income tax returns . |
| 4 | Cooperative and other forms of group action enlarge the production base of rural people and help to ensure the viability of their internal economy . |
| 5 | From Glamis , her home for the moment , Groa moved about her concerns with the farm people and tried to ignore the rumble of wagons taking felled timber to the palisade , or men with pickaxes and shovels on their way to Dunsinane , where the old ring-fort below the watch-station had received new stone-and-earth walls , and shelters for folk as well as animals . |
| 6 | A group of young teachers wrote new posters calling on their colleagues to descend on the Great Hall of the People and offer to shine the shoes of the representatives to raise some cash . |
| 7 | Mr Morris said : ‘ We have had several problems with these sort of people and have pressed the case for a basic form of licence before anyone can start keeping animals . |
| 8 | Nazism appealed to the romanticism of the German people and attempted to re-create the rituals and folklore of its pagan past . |
| 9 | Similar regulations and procedures have delayed both the promotion and dismissal of staff and have hampered the ZBS by failing to provide it with adequate transport when needed at short notice . |
| 10 | These points may also explain their failure to grow in culture media but do raise the possibility that another , as yet unidentified organism , may be involved . |
| 11 | The allocator was given $10 and asked to divide the cash between himself and the receiver . |