Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The captain has the responsibility of having the report of the shoot , the names of the people who entered , minutes of their AGM and the prizewinners written up in the records . |
| 2 | Ruth got into bed and sat there , knees drawn up under the covers . |
| 3 | The two black cars pulled out of the gates , round the corner , and were gone . |
| 4 | She listened to the stories of small triumphs brought back from the dances . |
| 5 | The entire loft is a matted tangle of sticks and twigs brought in by the jackdaws over God knows how many centuries ; in parts it is many metres deep . |
| 6 | A typical short cut was the successful assumption that some indicators set up by the operators in the four machine windows were not random but girls ' names or four-letter dirty German words . |
| 7 | The time of Sigmar sees the Orcs and Goblins driven out of the lands west of the Worlds Edge Mountains . |
| 8 | Following well-rehearsed dismounting drills , the riflemen poured out of the Warriors and in next to no time were providing their own fire support as the Warriors reversed away at high speed to give covering fire from positions where they would be less vulnerable to short-range anti-tank weapons . |
| 9 | About 6,000 silk rosettes have to be made next , and these are stitched on the inside and outside of the garland before forty-eight red , white and blue ribbons with bells sewn on to the ends are attached . |
| 10 | Those who authorise the dreadful deeds carried out by the torturers ( or whoever ) also share whatever proportion of this retrospective agony the deity — or his angelic cost-benefit-calculating representatives — deem they deserve . |
| 11 | Whereas the line item approach bears no relation at all to the activities of the police force it is possible to identify various functions carried out by the police and thereby determine suitable programmes . |
| 12 | Superimposed on this map of things as they were , one sometimes finds the lines drawn in by the commissioners showing where they propose to create the new fields and hedges , and the new roads , public and private . |
| 13 | Other movements brought about by the pecs are shoulder flexion , which draws the arm forwards and upwards , and shoulder extension , which draws the arm down and forwards . |
| 14 | The current crop of presenters lined up on the steps of the same church outside Broadcasting House where the original team — Terry Wogan , Bob Holness , Jimmy Young and all — had posed exactly a quarter of a century before . |
| 15 | ‘ In the majority of the villages occupied during the sieges of Newark , there are traces of the earthworks thrown up by the besiegers , most consisting of a few eroded banks or ditches . ’ |
| 16 | Again from Criminal Statistics ( 1988 ) we see that there has been an increase in the number of offences cleared up by the police , between 1979 and 1988 of 27.3 per cent ( from 980,700 to 1,248,900 ) . |
| 17 | These occur twice a day and may not , under rules drawn up by the journalists themselves , be mentioned in print . |
| 18 | With a little wave of his hand he indicated that his officials and guests should take a pace or two backward into the aisle between the adjoining rows of pillars to clear the way between the throne and the open doors , and the next moment the ranks of singers and musicians drawn up around the walls of the courtyard outside burst into a plaintive musical chant . |
| 19 | The radical programmes drawn up by the experts were severely qualified . |
| 20 | Looking at the account books — the real ones , not the fabrications served up to the Poles and the League of Nations — it was clear that Danzig 's projected budget for 1934–5 would run at a deficit of over 44 million gulden , which , when added to the employment projects the Nazis needed to keep their supporters in Danzig happy and faithful , would leave the Reichsbank to pick up a bill of over 110 million marks . |
| 21 | At the centre of the barn is the press , its iron worm-gears cramped down onto the cheeses , the bog horsehair bags of apple pulp that only Boy Nigel knows how to fold . |
| 22 | They had been draped with canvas to protect them from the rain , and a watchman in wet buckram saluted civilly , then stepped back in haste to avoid the splashes thrown up by the hooves of the passing st'lyan . |
| 23 | Pesh Framjee would like to see ‘ incorporated charities taken out of the Companies Act and only reporting under the Charities Act , or if that is not possible have them report under both . |
| 24 | Its latent function was to ensure that the lower classes fitted in with the designs of their betters . |
| 25 | These are prisoners locked out of the prisons where they should be held . |
| 26 | The formula does not contain silicone so it wo n't create build-up on the hair which can sometimes affect the result of chemical treatments carried out in the salons . |
| 27 | As his corruption became evident , usually tolerant Brazilians flooded on to the streets and drove him out . |
| 28 | The purpose of this note is to explain the changes brought about by the Courts and Legal Services Act to allow for multi-national partnerships i.e. partnerships in England and Wales between English ( or Welsh ) solicitors and foreign lawyers . |
| 29 | The changes brought about by the Companies Act 1989 , requiring only adequacy of treatment have , however , given the SRO 's more scope to map out what they consider suitable regulation within their own particular regulatory domain . |
| 30 | Others have highlighted the need for monitoring the changes brought about by the proposals ( Judge , 1989 ) . |