Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like one , all six typewriters stopped and six pairs of eyes gazed at him above the machines . |
| 2 | These images came to her from the metal engravings of the conquest of Libya which had appeared in the illustrated journals ; she did not remember the different countries of the Italian empire in question , for all of Africa — Libya , Somalia , Eritrea alike — beat out a rhythm of adventure and spoils and heroism . |
| 3 | At her side , Candy 's bright blue eyes darted from one to the other as she watched the meeting with unabashed interest . |
| 4 | Her lips came towards him through the darkness , he felt the touch of her fingers at the most erotic points of his body . |
| 5 | His evidence for fusion neutrons consisted of what to the eye looked to be only a moderate increase of neutrons in a small range of energy , though admittedly in the right region to be from fusion . |
| 6 | Three or four cars wheezed past us on the dusty road . |
| 7 | When he threw open shutters to let in air and light , pictures sprang at her from the walls . |
| 8 | Before she could utter the cry of alarm which rose in her throat his hand had closed over her mouth , and Paige 's startled eyes blinked at him over the top . |
| 9 | His eyes ran over her from the wild disorder of her pale hair to the agitated beating of the pulse in her throat and the smooth rounded thrust of her breasts , and he looked at her angrily . |
| 10 | One possibility is that its nets snagged on something on the seabed . |
| 11 | From 1931 , threats to his leadership disappeared , Moreover , because the Conservatives took with them into the National coalition elements of the Liberal and Labour parties , the party competition of the 1930s became seriously unbalanced , the left being too shattered and divided to offer effective opposition . |
| 12 | There was no time for him to get up the steps and past the door before it opened and deadly talons reached for him in the darkness . |
| 13 | Descartes never questioned his beliefs about how things seemed to him at the time ; he asked instead how he could know other things , such as the existence of God or of a material world . |
| 14 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 15 | But Mr Chadwin said when police officers spoke to him in the early hours of the following morning when he was in the car with Miss Jeanette near Catterick Bridge they had not noticed any dramatic injuries . |
| 16 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 17 | When I asked him what those eminent shrinks did with themselves in the evenings he explained that they gathered in the hotel bar . |
| 18 | Coming to the end of his account , he remembered the fate of the mason-overseer , Khaemhet , held responsible for the security of the prisoners deputed to him for the journey from the granite quarries to the Southern Capital . |
| 19 | Here and there logs surfaced from it like the inclined hulls of sinking ships . |
| 20 | Lori glanced from one to the other in surprise . |
| 21 | Outside the city we passed by a refugee camp where white-faced , unsmiling boys and girls gazed at us through the railings . |
| 22 | Authors who recognize the significance of manipulation , indoctrination , or ‘ conditioned power ’ ( Galbraith , 1985 ) believe that people may make mistakes in deciding what are their interests , and accept definitions of their interests foisted upon them by the powerful . |
| 23 | The masks spoke to her with the voice of the past . |
| 24 | The other travellers tottered towards him through the throng of birds . |
| 25 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 26 | Jenna asked when her heart had slowed down and his hands ran over her with the dominance of ownership . |
| 27 | Both players were standing outside the players ' lounge when three men ran past them into the building , for which they are believed to have produced entrance tickets , pursued by around 20 Rangers fans . |
| 28 | It was vaulted and filthy , black with the grime of decades , and its sooty defaced posters spoke to her of the petty romances of others , of Ramsgate and Margate , and she was going to Paris , albeit in a school raincoat , and with a beret on her head . |
| 29 | The thing 's entrails writhed around him like the tentacles of a daemonic octopus . |
| 30 | Coroner Ronald O'Doherty said the boy had died five hours after the insecure steel goal-posts fell on him at the Derry City Council ground . |