Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 2 | How could she be expected to cope with stupid computers that had n't the wit to understand a simple error , or calculators that came up with the wrong numbers ? |
| 3 | Wars came early to Shanghai , overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to the gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bond . |
| 4 | It has been postulated that it was either the dinosaurs that opened up the way for the angiosperms , or instead it was the changing nature of the flora itself that was in some way the prime mover of evolutionary trends ; that , in spite of all the advances in jaw structure discussed above , they somehow speeded up trends towards extinction . |
| 5 | It was like coming home and the first thing she did was to walk to the pictures that hung on the wall and look at them all over again . |
| 6 | A quiet woman in a large white apron brought them cold white wine in a red earthenware jug , and they sat at the edge of the patio looking out at the rows of vines , of lemon trees , tomatoes and capsicums that straggled down the hillside , shaded in places by tall cypresses and stunted white-trunked olive trees . |
| 7 | There was a strength and hardness about their voices that took away the pride he had felt at disposing of the hooded crow so effectively . |
| 8 | Claudia opened her eyes and blinked away the tears . |
| 9 | Griselda opened her eyes and licked up the tear . |
| 10 | We should have knocked in a couple of goals and killed off the game . ’ |
| 11 | She cut short the stumbling thanks and put down the phone . |
| 12 | She closed her eyes to the image , waiting to hear only the words and shut out the pain . |
| 13 | They unfolded the stiff green branches and set up the metal stand . |
| 14 | Then there would be a frantic rush to grab an armful of branches and beat out the flames . |
| 15 | They lifted her gently onto their shoulders and moved down the chapel . |
| 16 | She served four months and gave up the glue . |
| 17 | The head of the family rested his knife and fork on their heels and looked down the table . |
| 18 | They turned on their heels and started back the way they 'd come . |
| 19 | between her knees and spelt out the sign |
| 20 | He stepped over Gabriel 's knees and clambered down the ladder , mumbling . |
| 21 | By experiment and observation , Hahnemann worked out the drug pictures of many remedies and laid down the principles whereby they were to be used — remedies and principles which are still as valid today as they were when Hahnemann first discovered them . |
| 22 | It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk . |
| 23 | It is not going to be an easy time for the Government ; but if it fails to face up to the fiscal deficit it will risk a crisis of confidence developing later which would require more drastic remedies and put both the recovery and the reduction in unemployment at risk . |
| 24 | Thinking that it was heavier than it looked , he undid the straps and buckles and threw back the flap . |
| 25 | She drew the cigarette from her lips and blew out the smoke thoughtfully . |
| 26 | Mike Pumfrey , now back in the study with Sergeant Fenniway , put his finger to his lips and picked up the extension phone . |
| 27 | Under Franco , they used to be distributed among representatives of the different political groups that made up the regime 's base of support ; under democracy , incumbents in such posts have tended to be replaced with each change of government . |
| 28 | The reason I started writing tunes was because I could n't find tunes that set up the kind of guitar playing I wanted to do as an improviser . |
| 29 | The seven communities that made up the population of Møn in those days ranged round one or other of the churches and each community made itself known to the others in a common language of bells . |
| 30 | ‘ Ours was a humble part of the operation but we were all full of admiration for the crews that carried out the raid in such difficult conditions . ’ |