Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were large animals that lived at the same time as the forerunners of the dinosaurs , the petrolacosaurs . |
| 2 | ‘ As you know Mr. Arteh [ Qalib ] was appointed as the interim Prime Minister for Somalia within the context of arrangements agreed upon by all the Somali political parties that participated in the Somali National Reconciliation Conference held at Djibouti in July 1991 . |
| 3 | In 1990 we sent a questionnaire to the heads of the 49 maternity units that participated in the voluntary registration system in 1989 . |
| 4 | Because of the pressures of the Iran-Iraq war , then in its fourth year , the Kurds won concessions that went beyond the 1970 agreement . |
| 5 | The vast majority of the images that appeared in the Western press were taken by foreigners , but there were Chinese photographers at work in Peking last year , and perhaps the most outstanding among them was Zeng Nian . |
| 6 | We all the lads that left at the same time , said , we 've got four weeks ' holiday before we look for work . |
| 7 | Shallow cores show that the pebbly sands and clays that came originally came from the ice-sheet contain shells that lived in the shallower waters of the continental shelf . |
| 8 | Bacci and the Marshal were staring in at the uncurtained window below the steps that led to the front door . |
| 9 | They walked up the steps that led to the front door . |
| 10 | He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves . |
| 11 | Several hundred yards away , Riessa was in a strange humour as she strode down the worn steps that led into the hollow heart of the Wyrmberg , followed by half a dozen Riders . |
| 12 | After the Milan performance , Koons had a translator convince Cicciolina to do a series of soft-core photo shoots with him , sessions that evolved during the later photo shoots that Illona succumbed to Koons ' charms . |
| 13 | In fact , as of July 1991 , only one concentration that was a merger in the traditional sense of the word , which was between two Japanese banks , had been notified to the Commission ; the rest were concerned concentrations that came within the wider definition . |
| 14 | Table II shows this further by the changes in juice concentrations that occurred in the two subgroups according to whether the final plasma vitamin C concentration was high or low . |
| 15 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 16 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 17 | Then she rose and went over to the bed , pulled back the covers and slipped between the cool , fresh sheets . |
| 18 | ‘ And I guess that a player like me is loved by one half of the fans and hated by the other half . |
| 19 | The Movement put up municipal candidates and worked with the Communist Party and the ILP for the " immediate demands " of the unemployed . |
| 20 | Frankie narrowed his eyes and squinted at the bloody object lying between her powerful front paws . |
| 21 | He screwed up his eyes and stared into the middle distance . |
| 22 | He narrowed his eyes and stared at the distant wall of the Tower . |
| 23 | He just shut his eyes and hoped for the best . |
| 24 | They seem to have shut their eyes and hoped to the very end . ’ |
| 25 | In the Wheelhouse of RCTV Audemer , Corporal Fisher rubbed his tired eyes and looked along the thirty-three-metre length of the RCL and its now empty cargo deck , capable of carrying up to ninety-six tonnes of vehicles or freight . |
| 26 | I closed my eyes and thought about the trapped , compressed spring and the little slug sitting at the shiny bottom of the rifled tube . |
| 27 | Yanto closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable . |
| 28 | With a brief smile in the other woman 's direction , she fled , taking refuge in the consulting-room , where she closed her eyes and leaned against the closed door , breathing hard . |
| 29 | She shut her eyes and concentrated on the four last things listed by the catechism : death , judgment , heaven and hell . |
| 30 | Waves crashed over their heads and burst through the open saloon door . |