Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bells crashed out the joyous news practically all day . |
| 2 | of cocks sucked down the deep end 's outlet hole , |
| 3 | Recognizing the complexities and psychological dangers of this awesome doctrine , most non-Puritan clergy played down the Calvinist theory of salvation to such an extent that many of their parishioners were able to continue to believe that their conduct could influence their destination after death . |
| 4 | She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , and as his heated lips touched again the silken surface of her skin she arched against him . |
| 6 | Like the rest , the ex-Croydon cars took on the visible signs of war , headlamp masks , white collision fenders and protective netting on the windows . |
| 7 | A glimpse of rough woodland carpeted with bluebells and wild garlic could be seen beyond a daisy-sprinkled lawn ; a wisp of smoke spiralled up from the trees ; voices carried on the still air . |
| 8 | I heard the sound of voices carried on the thin air . |
| 9 | Against Protestant tendencies to emphasize the priesthood of all believers , Catholic scholars would reaffirm , as Bellarmine did , that many believers had neither the spiritual capacity nor the mental endowment to protect themselves from literature that might be damaging to faith and prospects for eternity . |
| 10 | Her eyes ran down the black jacket to where the man 's watch was half hidden by a white cuff . |
| 11 | If the drains get blocked , this cover can be removed and drain rods pushed down the rodding point to clear them . |
| 12 | While France , Italy and the Low Countries were interested in developing common political institutions with a supranational flavour , Britain and its Nordic supporters wanted only the traditional form of intergovernmental collaboration . |
| 13 | Kate 's quick ears picked up the remembered bitterness . |
| 14 | Then his ears picked up the soft pattering of multiple animal feet , and the sound of undergrowth being brushed lightly aside by swiftly moving bodies . |
| 15 | With rucksacks on their shoulders and clutching their weapons , the group of desperadoes trudged up the main coast road , clearly silhouetted by the headlamps of passing enemy traffic . |
| 16 | The headlights revealed only the worn flagstones of the farmyard , the archway into the byre on the ground floor of the house , the crumbling steps that had once given access to the living quarters above . |
| 17 | This all reached a peak in 1988 when piss-filled cider bottles rained down the hapless likes of Meatloaf ( who ran away ) and Bonnie Tyler ( who did n't ! ) . |
| 18 | My father 's feelings towards the General were , naturally , those of utmost loathing ; but he realized too that his employer 's present business aspirations hung on the smooth running of the house party — which with some eighteen or so people expected would be no trifling affair . |
| 19 | Such matters resisted even the intense interest of the bourgeois world in ‘ moral statistics ’ , as a late-nineteenth-century reference book sadly admitted , dismissing all the attempts to measure the extent of prostitution as failures . |
| 20 | First-time guests peered up the dark oak staircase to the gallery murmuring , ‘ Mrs Danvers , ’ under their breath . |
| 21 | White House officials played down the revolutionary tenor of Reagan 's comments , saying that no new infusion of money was set aside for lasers , only that a ‘ reorganisation ’ of the new disparate research projects is underway . |
| 22 | A study of a small series of sixth-century , square-headed , brooches showed how the various brooches could be placed into a sequence because of the interchange of parts of the decoration on them . |
| 23 | Several supports broke up the smooth appearance of the walls , and joined the floor and ceiling at angles that did n't seem really workable . |
| 24 | Bush has made it plain that US forces are there simply to ensure that relief gets through to those who need it , although it might help more if the troops sorted out the renegade gangs stealing the food . |
| 25 | After dinner , guests drifted up the steep basement stairs to the Bechstein in the drawing room to sing : at the last party I was at , Lennox Berkeley 's contemporaries , many in their eighties , and friends of their three sons , sang tunes like ‘ A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square ’ and ‘ Tea for Two ’ . |
| 26 | It shone ; its fine veins sparkled where the tiny gold wires crossed but she did n't see wonder in it . |
| 27 | Before the teams met again the Great Schism had occurred , as Kerry Packer inserted his spanner into the gently revolving works . |
| 28 | The statutes laid down the maximum size of peasant land allotments . |
| 29 | Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all . |
| 30 | Distributors showed repeatedly the old films from their stocks . |