Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pers pn] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
| 2 | Well , if a brick layer lays bricks why does n't a plumbers lay plums and it said the little boy to his mother . |
| 3 | The broadcast blade split into mirroring fragments and she kicked the red tube of its handle at Zuleika 's head . |
| 4 | This is a , you know , this is the third one which is er was similar to others we 've had , the steps and we had the other door and a few steps down , and then , this is all similar types of photographs and all taken from different sort of angles . |
| 5 | He raised the bone knife to the wooden lips and she felt the first gentle cut . |
| 6 | They had the same size shoes and they wore the same clothes quite often . |
| 7 | There was a greater preponderance and variety of coloured shells at exposed sites and she regarded the white colour of sheltered enclaves as an adaptation to resist high temperatures . |
| 8 | The gunner of the Fox gave me the final two fingers and I knew the third finger was coming up which meant the " K " gun would be right in my starboard earhole , I put my finger lip and gave the impression I was going to land , whereupon all the Foxes — by this time four or live of them — were given a signal by the leader , and they all turned on their backs and headed where they wanted me to follow . |
| 9 | ‘ It was the early hours and I feared the worst , that a family member or friend had been hurt . |
| 10 | This was the way I always imagined Cedric would get home , if he ever did , but the only person I knew who did manage to negotiate the mysterious overland route was a Lancaster pilot on one of our neighbouring stations and he did the whole thing , from being shot down to arriving back in England , in three weeks . |
| 11 | We proceeded without lights and I did the whole thing by radar with my eyes standing out like organ stops . |
| 12 | We could mobilise the resources and we had the moral drive . |
| 13 | The outbreak of war saw Bennett still in the navy blue of Imperial Airways and he heard the Prime Minister 's broadcast , declaring war on Germany , with much the same feeling as most of us who remember it . |
| 14 | So I found myself in one of those " Catch 22 " situations and I chose the lesser one , and the one I thought I could defend . |
| 15 | It was a clear night , but the radar was a mass of echoes and I asked the Belgian contact to give me an estimated course and speed of our quarry , and as a result of this we were able to pick it up . |
| 16 | Beautiful white , pastel pink and blue houses nestle in the cliffs and we took the funicular railway down the cliff side to the pretty harbour at Skala for a closer view and a donkey ride back up through the twisting mountain road . |
| 17 | The deviance of ‘ mouths ’ was in this instance amplified by direct provocation by the police , in part because one member of the force wanted some ‘ skulls ’ , but also because they were elevated into ‘ gougers ’ : the ‘ lip ’ was typical of that of gougers and they fitted the social class from which gougers come . |
| 18 | He had drawn up the list of church members and he maintained the other lists too . |
| 19 | His heart was thudding hard against his ribs and he felt the first droplet of perspiration pop onto his forehead . |
| 20 | We got our first publishing contract through that , but we were just signing as songwriters and we made the odd grotesque , poppy single ! |
| 21 | His heroes had none of the traditional grandeur appropriate to demigods and he reduced the customary high language of the genre accordingly . |
| 22 | We were talking about flowers and I mentioned the wild garlic which I had seen growing in Wiltshire . |
| 23 | It was almost the first news story she had taken over the newsroom headphones and she knew the absolute importance of accuracy . |
| 24 | However , boys will be boys and they enjoyed the fresh air and the sport of fishing , in fact the boys had been known to fish after dark at the newty pond which was very illegal ! |
| 25 | the Kirby Boys and they won the national competition or something or other with the , with them . |
| 26 | Alice gave her the bag in which Catherine 's disposable nappies were and a change of clothes and she put the two bottles of formula into the fridge . |
| 27 | And the two rounds in the morning you did the bottom half of , for the first round and you went back to the shop and you got another bag full of papers and you did the top half of , if you know it . |
| 28 | We did so , heaving and pushing until the bed moved a few inches and I saw the slight scorch mark on the stone floor beneath . |
| 29 | And then er the the the lace trade he he worked on , when women wore high collars , boned high collars and he made the little narrow edging lace about like that and it was goffered so it made a frill round the face . |
| 30 | The triggers for Britain 's nuclear bombs were tested within their thick concrete walls and they housed the first experiments into radar.The buildings , on a remote spit of land on the Suffolk coast , may not be the oldest but they are certainly among the most historic and sinister in the ownership of the National Trust.They are on Orford Ness , a desolate wildlife haven , which has become the Trust 's latest acquisition at a cost of £3.5 million.Yesterday , in pouring rain and silence broken only by the eerie shriek of gulls , the buildings were shown to journalists for what is thought to be the first time since they were erected.Strands of barbed wire and a Ministry of Defence ‘ keep out ’ notice are now the only remaining evidence of the tight security , overseen by armed guards , which surrounded one of Britain 's most secret research establishments . |