Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labourers and more poorly paid seamen lived on the banksides and in the ‘ low street ’ in single-room tenements in industrial and pre-industrial slums . |
| 2 | It focuses on how human groups lived in the past and the effect these activities had upon the ecology of the landscape . |
| 3 | Their activities ranged throughout the day and night and reached a peak of basically making a noise nuisance of themselves , there were other troubles which I will mention later , in which they would be playing two or three different sound systems , and at its worst , a full drum set in the early hours of the morning , obviously keeping their near neighbours not only awake but in a state of some anxiety . |
| 4 | He took a stick and poked the leaves till they glowed , orange flames flickered around the strap and the helmet began to shrivel , slowly becoming unrecognisable , so that Barnes would n't pull it out later and bring it back to the house . |
| 5 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |
| 6 | The case does , however , demonstrate that , notwithstanding the absence of any actual undue influence and any actual misrepresentation , equities arose between the wife and her husband and , through Mr. Bruce , the wife and the bank that prevented the bank from enforcing against the wife the security she had given . |
| 7 | A few hens pecked between the cobbles and rabbits scuffled in hutches along one of the dry-stone walls . |
| 8 | Above me , the gaily painted signs of the taverns and food shops creaked in the wind and mocked my hunger . |
| 9 | The teenage PODs lived for the moment and their songs , all crash-bang-wallop-bang-crash , reflected this . |
| 10 | Auguste 's eyes misted at the sound and sight of the lovely Araminta , Multhrop 's eighteen-year-old daughter , rustling down the staircase in a delightful froufrou of petticoats , her large blue eyes fixed on her father , but well aware of every male in sight . |
| 11 | ‘ Three cheers for Taureg ! ’ came the order and once , twice , three times , hats and caps rose in the air and once , twice , three times the assembled well-wishers roared their approval . |
| 12 | The man 's pale blue eyes peered into the fog and his ears strained to catch the sound of approaching footsteps . |
| 13 | Senna lost his front left wheel in the crash and both cars bounced over the kerbs and out of the race . |
| 14 | Its engine stopped , the door slid open and a courier-woman in high heels came down the steps and put up an umbrella . |
| 15 | As soon as the gentlemen came into the room and coffee was served , she became the centre of attention . |
| 16 | When she reached the apartment she tried to write , but sounds of crying children and raised voices came through the ceiling and walls . |
| 17 | It was only a moment or two before a couple of cars came up the hill and screeched into the side of the road . |
| 18 | Men from the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders berthed on the ship and on one occasion she had war scars inflicted on her when a bomb fell on Portland Place and debris rained down on the top deck gouging pieces out of the timbers . |
| 19 | However , his eyes shone with the brightness and power of a great intellect . |
| 20 | ‘ All my high points are related to the team effort , the commitment the lads showed on the field and to their ability to play for 80 minutes against top quality opposition . |
| 21 | We stood in the doorway for a while until our eyes adjusted to the darkness and then , stooping low to avoid the worst of the smoke , we made our way through the crowd to a space that had been cleared for us close to the fire . |
| 22 | The Dragoons arrived on the battlefield and sent a party forward under a flag of truce . |
| 23 | On either side of the central aisle , heads nodded at the buildings and streets around them as a now livelier Ashenden continued , himself ( like the site , it appeared ) splendidly restored from whatever malaise had affected him over the previous two days , a malaise which had been noted and commented upon by several others of the group besides Mrs Shirley Brown — the latter sitting comfortably now in her usual seat , the effects of the sting having cleared up fairly quickly under the twin application of Mrs Roscoe 's unguents . |
| 24 | The columns of men that splintered from the Kitchen to their huts were first frozen still , then drawn in concert to where the lights were brilliant , where the knees hung between the blackness and the snow . |
| 25 | He opened the rear door and folded Goldman on to the seat ; his legs trailed into the road and Elliott tucked them up on the seat . |
| 26 | Waves broke on the shore and eventually expired in a froth and myriad of bubbles . |
| 27 | It is dispersals of this People 's University of books bequeathed by the Victorians and their successors up to the postwar years that are the real reason for the library 's losing its soul , as Richard Hoggart so aptly put it . |
| 28 | So he calls the heart a wild beast liable to impulsive leaps out of control , a situation archetypally illustrated in the story of the Fall when Eve 's eyes leapt to the apple and her heart followed and so she leapt from Paradise to the pains of mortality and took all men with her . |
| 29 | Piers leant against the door-frame and surveyed them in silence . |
| 30 | She said to Maurin : ‘ I never knew how you and Joseph decided which pictures went to the States and which were sold through your gallery . |