Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |
| 2 | They looked red and sore and his mouth seemed to droop at the corners . |
| 3 | But then a peculiar light began to creep down the steps , mostly blocked by Adam , but searching , sharp , pricking Ruth like needles . |
| 4 | He stopped and the snow began to drift over the toes of his boots . |
| 5 | Guido was laughing , as the little boat began to scud across the waves again . |
| 6 | The gel covered his body , and Spike 's mind struggled to cope with the signals from every neuron in his artificial frame . |
| 7 | THE Football Association is to launch an inquiry into the crowd trouble involving Birmingham City supporters at Blackpool on Saturday , when police in riot gear had to move into the terraces to part fighting fans . |
| 8 | Deterministic laws of atomic arrangements in the triumphant years of classical physics seemed to lie behind the phenomena of life . |
| 9 | The council agreed to object to the pylons , but said if they had to have a preferred option , it would be for the western , or red route . |
| 10 | Quite simply , there is too little equipment installed to account for the levels of unemployment . |
| 11 | Cohse branch secretary Sheila Bowes said : ‘ I think it 's about time management started to listen to the nurses . |
| 12 | A Czech cartoon managed to appear in the years of ‘ Normalization ’ with a caption which summed up this perverse process : ‘ Thanks to the continuous development of socialism , we became a developing country . ’ |
| 13 | The woman constable went to speak to the youths , aged 16 to 19 , as they loitered in a churchyard in Guildford , Surrey . |
| 14 | In foreign policy , despite his respect for the consistency of the new US President , Ronald Reagan , the Chancellor continued to argue with the Americans . |
| 15 | Spike 's one eye tried to focus on the movements occurring in front of him . |
| 16 | Successful establishment seemed to depend on the teachers investing enough in the innovation to overcome that already built into the traditional role . |
| 17 | The Health chairman was unmoved ( leading Awlad Amira to remark later that everything had already been decided , there was no true democracy ) and was about to raise another aspect of the question when a speaker at the public microphone began to talk about the roads , mentioning the present high cost of transport across the Sahara . |
| 18 | Finally , when the walls of Amal 's room began to vibrate from the sounds of the bass from the stereo , she decided to go downstairs to ask her brother and his friends to turn down their music . |
| 19 | After the onset of reaction , activists from the working class heavily outnumbered intelligenty ; and as membership began to recover in the years before 1914 , their preponderance grew further . |
| 20 | In a ballot , the Club membership decided to stay with the trails and Brower 's suspension by the Board for ‘ dictatorial methods , disobedience and fiscal irresponsibility ’ was upheld . |
| 21 | ( The French population tended to shift to the towns much more slowly ; we are told the rate was about 3 per cent per decade down to 1911 , and this had been true for a century . ) |
| 22 | Permanently placed at Number 55 in the not-quite-so-top 100 , they are destined to be remembered as yet another band Virgin failed to encourage into the charts ( famous last words part 136 ) . |
| 23 | The Royal Navy moved to cut off the raiders , but fog allowed them to slip past . |
| 24 | The occasion seemed to get to the Aussies then , and this time there will be a 78,000 full house to worry them . |
| 25 | Her eyes closed tight shut , and her forehead came to rest on the hands that gripped the bedpost . |
| 26 | Alina was over on the far side of the room , sitting at her table with the lamp angled to spill across the pages of the scrapbook that lay open in front of her . |
| 27 | And when she thought it was about to finish , the whip began to flick at the pegs . |
| 28 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 29 | Besides , it took time to get the formula right ; one dose began to work on the notes alter only 24 hours . |
| 30 | Then , year by year , the club improved : more and more glass , more lights , more artificial flowers and cactuses , more speakers , more music , and also more and more people , further multiplied by the enormous mirrors which the management one day decided to spread across the walls of the gym . |