Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are presently around 600 active volcanoes on the continents or exposed above the sea as islands . |
| 2 | ‘ After he passed you , did you notice whether he went into one of the houses or continued down the hill ? ’ |
| 3 | One by one the men emerged from the huts or appeared among the trees on the top of the bank . |
| 4 | Containing the first studio cut of ‘ No Woman No Cry ’ , versions of early Jamaicans singles ‘ Belly Full ’ , ‘ Bend Down Low ’ , ‘ Natty Dread ’ and ‘ Lively Up Yourself ’ , this is , superficially , a simple set of songs that went against the grain of the mesmeric dub that was then dominating reggae . |
| 5 | And , all run here , everything was run here , and animals , animals that won here , well er well I think they put them down as better animals than animals that raced before the war , you know , cos they had to do such a lot in a short time . |
| 6 | They were prominent in the Silurian and Devonian , where they can be found with the fish-like animals that abounded in the fresh- and brackish water deposits of the time , although some of the Ordovician ones are in marine sediments . |
| 7 | However , King also believes that traditional agroforestry led to the establishment of plantation forestry because of colonial timber requirements in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that culminated in the separation of agricultural and forestry interests . |
| 8 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 9 | He was very aware of her body beside his , of the long legs that shimmered in the semi-darkness , and of the smell of her perfume . |
| 10 | She was wearing something lime-green and minuscule , with silver sandals adorning bare legs that looked like the stems of a slender plant . |
| 11 | Léonie wheeled , scrambled back past the baker 's , and fled along the boulevard edged with limes that led to the church and the walled cemetery , to the lane beyond . |
| 12 | The little Austers removed a significant amount of the in-flight workload imposed on the Lincoln navigators , however the frequent rain squalls that came over the jungle limited their use and as such the heavy bomber crews had to carry out operations with the required precision in dangerously adverse weather conditions . |
| 13 | He stared at it , puzzled , deciding it was pulsating , with red lines swelling and diminishing in the self-same rhythm ; tentacles that throbbed with the heart beat of the central creature . |
| 14 | Check the files on those British right-wing organizations that flourished before the war , the ones that sometimes had Members of Parliament on their books . ’ |
| 15 | She shifted from foot to foot and stared up impatiently at the gallery of offices that ran around the walls . |
| 16 | With the companionway protected from the wind , only the waves that broke over the cabin top burst into the saloon . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never seen the church so crowded for a funeral , ’ said William 's nan proudly , though there was a hint of suspicion in the eyes that gazed around the congregation . |
| 18 | His strong face , lined by age and illness , framed a pair of kindly eyes that softened at the sight of her . |
| 19 | Something as tall as a steeple , in a trailing black dress , fair hair cascading ; a face turned , looking down at Ruth , with long mocking green eyes that glimmered like the sea . |
| 20 | One of the more unedifying spectacles that emerged from the community charge was the flaunting display of the ’ can pay , wo n't pay ’ brigade . |
| 21 | She hesitated , then with the point of her shoe touched a clump of fungi that grew round the roots of a large oak tree , drawing back as one burst open . |
| 22 | The Commission ordered the reorganisation to free the ties that existed between the wholesalers ( the Breweries ) and the retailers ( the Public Houses ) . |
| 23 | In other words , there was a growth in the use of ‘ framework legislation ’ , with Parliament establishing a general framework for controlling or regulating an area of activity and granting to governmental agencies both rule-making powers to put flesh on the framework or quasi-judicial powers to resolve disputes that arose in the course of implementing these schemes . |
| 24 | This move was probably motivated by the same considerations that led to the Perkins ' choice of a site near Harrow , and to its eventual abandonment . |
| 25 | Clapham was a committed negotiator , and Kerr did a great deal to assuage the anxieties that existed in the NCDAD and its institutions . |
| 26 | I told them they could n't expect people to get excited by four scruffy ragamuffins that came in the stage door and then go put on their party clothes , which were fantastic , and then again put on their horrible Levis and leave again . |
| 27 | He noticed everything , from the good but worn carpets to the books that abounded in the room . |
| 28 | In images that shone against the dark |
| 29 | Joseph gazed up wide-eyed at the snarling ceramic dragons that writhed along the ridges and cornices of the Thai Hoa ; in the bright sunlight of the first morning of the Year of the Buffalo they glittered and shimmered like real gold . |
| 30 | They stepped off the pavement outside and crossed over to another group of shops that curved around the square . |