Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of water lapping the romantic old stone walls of wharves and warehouses , palaces and towers , there is mud — a pallid dark grey mud , littered with the dunnage of long-dispersed cargoes , bits of broken packing cases , carried up with the tide and brought down again , the rusted frames of worn-out bicycles , the pathetic remnants of somebody 's pram , upside down , its upholstery all gone , motionless , futile wheels apparently beseeching something from the air . |
| 2 | It was perfectly quiet ( no sounds ever reached him from the rest of the Tolbooth ; it was hard to believe that it existed , the street below was more real ) . |
| 3 | The animal , sensing a new danger , shook its horns furiously to free itself from the encumbrance , and the already unconscious senator was catapulted into the thorns , where he lay without moving . |
| 4 | Liam Brady and his players certainly deserve something from the season , even if it is only a back door into Europe . |
| 5 | Whatever else was said , it was vital for Russian socialists clearly to dissociate themselves from the Tsarist record : |
| 6 | These sections naturally follow one from the other , and thus the organization of the headings in these two chapters follows patterns . |
| 7 | Funny that no one has ever noticed Mrs Thatcher 's knock knees and pigeon toes , but then , the ever considerate television news cameras always film her from the knees up , so who 's to know . |