Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] the [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sort of Oh we used to risk our necks walking across the ruddy this mill was a bit of a wreck actually and we used to go playing in places where we should n't have really . |
| 2 | She wound up the window and started to cruise round , her eyes searching for the nice little space that would take her white Golf GTI . |
| 3 | In his April review AB , while remaining loyal to the Walter and Klemperer versions , summed it up as ‘ the most compelling and most spontaneous of performances recorded in the past few years , and I shall want it by my for the sheer beauty of the sound , often in that respect surpassing any other version ’ . |
| 4 | They can also point to real improvements made in the past few years : a rationalisation of economic-development agencies , say , or a tightening up of Medicaid billing procedures . |
| 5 | As many Tory candidates and canvassers noted during the past few days , thousands of voters were shrugging their shoulders and saying : ‘ We do n't like you , but ’ ( said with a sigh ) ‘ we 'll have to vote for you . |
| 6 | The tunes played by the 25-year-old former London College of Music student have become a feature at the club this season and the Crewe directors intend to reward him with a free season ticket . |
| 7 | The number of advances made in the past few days has sharply increased as companies attempt to match their rivals and allay the tax fears of senior staff . |
| 8 | Cardinal Basil Hume and Bishop Patrick Kelly have both called for a ban on nuclear weapons testing in the past few days . |
| 9 | CARDINAL Basil Hume and Bishop Patrick Kelly have both called for a ban on nuclear weapons testing in the past few days . |
| 10 | For me , the moment of realisation that something more must be done to identify the aggressor and to hold him to account came last week , when I was invited to open an exhibition of photographs at the building centre in Store street , London , of some of the Croatian buildings destroyed over the past few months . |
| 11 | If I remember correctly , officers sat in the front few rows and NCOs and other lower forms of life had the rest . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've built up a dossier on his drug and arms deals over the past few years . |
| 13 | Sterling lost all gains made over the past few days after the Germans cut a quarter per cent off their interest rate . |
| 14 | ‘ Tanks and firehose trucks moved into the square several times in an apparent attempt to intimidate the demonstrators . |