Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 2 | When the White House lawyer first tried to debrief Reagan on what he knew of the affair , the president was said to have told him stories of Hollywood ; when journalists badgered him about the deals he had half-wittingly struck with Israel and Iran in August 1985 , he replied amiably : ‘ Everybody that can remember what they were doing on August 8th 1985 , raise your hand . ’ |
| 3 | As the Dwarfs moved south Goblins watched them from the hills , reporting their movements by means of oily smoke signals and throbbing war drums . |
| 4 | My senses took me through the bars that confined me . |
| 5 | The exquisite creation they had made of their own lives blinded them to the aspirations of less fortunate men and women . |
| 6 | ‘ Now then , ’ the magistrate continued smoothly , ‘ I understand that in the course of a telephone call yesterday afternoon the kidnappers informed you of the whereabouts of a letter from them , and that this letter was subsequently recovered . |
| 7 | After that dogs bit me on the feet . |
| 8 | ‘ We feel this book was written because the times imposed it upon the authors . |
| 9 | Four troopers had them by the arms and were hustling them out into the coach . |
| 10 | ‘ Some people kept little trees in secret courtyards , and flowers in their houses , but they were n't supposed to , and if their neighbours reported them to the police the people would have their trees chopped down and the flowers taken away and they would be fined or put in prison , where they had to work very hard , rubbing out writing on bits of paper so they could be used again . ’ |
| 11 | Just under a hundred yards separated him from the police officers of two nations when he died . |
| 12 | After that its popularity spread so rapidly that by 1883 , the year of the National Apple Congress held at the society 's garden in Chiswick , 183 out of 231 exhibitors included it among the varieties they showed . |
| 13 | Some hours later , I do n't know how many , two abysmal and free-hanging abseils deposited us below the fangs of the bergschrund . |
| 14 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 15 | Intending to relieve the Runners of their seemingly unending supply of money , three young gang members followed them around the taverns . |
| 16 | Pink flowers like willow herb clustered along a dried-up river bank , circling birds reminded her of the vultures in westerns . |
| 17 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 18 | She did n't have time to more than glance at it before two pairs of strong hands lifted her from the stools , and placed her unceremoniously on a table top . |
| 19 | The police told him of the allegations from three children , but were , in his words , ‘ fairly vague ’ about the questioning . |
| 20 | Some children watched them from the shadows as they entered . |
| 21 | Peasants greeted them along the roads in the country . |
| 22 | He 's the man I was fighting when the soldiers found me on the marshes , Pip . |
| 23 | ‘ One of the patrol cameras caught him in the Frames making harvest . ’ |