Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waves of smell hit you as peasant women cycle past towing brown-encrusted oil drums filled with the precious produce of the city 's latrines . |
| 2 | Considerations of security prevented us from filming the machine which puts the layers into Vienetta … or the twirls into a tangle twister . |
| 3 | I hoped that the off-licence opened soon because the journey to Dover could only be improved by getting drunk ; besides , a few cans of lager helped me through the morning pretty well , and killed off hunger till late afternoon . |
| 4 | Wordsworth 's changing of sides has always laid him open to this sort of comment ; later generations of poets regarded him as a moral coward or a fallen idol , attitudes best summed up in the first stanza of Robert Browning 's poem The Lost Leader : |
| 5 | Lines of enquiry suggested themselves from reported material which had accumulated over the years on possible energy effects at ancient sites . |
| 6 | She was screaming and waggling her legs for all she was worth , but the cruel loops of nylon had her about the wrists , the kite was in the jaws of the wind , and she was already well out of reach even if I had wanted to catch her . |
| 7 | Between Salisbury 's retirement in 1902 and the outbreak of the Great War the individualist associations , their spokesmen , and their ideas were relegated even further to the margins of Conservative politics : only two Conservatives of note allied themselves with the individualist groups , while Dicey came to regard the Conservative party as collectivist Quislings . |
| 8 | The editor , I am also relieved to see , seems to have got out his 1992 book in advance of the election , without detriment to his political responsibilities since the burghers of Harwich elected him with a massive majority and a three per cent swing in his favour . |
| 9 | Out of gratitude for his rescue of the Everqueen , the Elves of Ellyrion presented him with their finest steed , Malhandir , last of the bloodline of Korhandir , father of horses . |
| 10 | It was , however , as we have seen , one of the great issues of the seventeenth century whether the Crown or Parliament was to hold the dominant sway under the English constitution , and it was in this context that Parliaments of England declared themselves to be ‘ sovereign ’ . |
| 11 | She had not specially noticed the heat before but now she did as droplets of sweat formed themselves on her forehead and her upper lip , as sweat in a single long drop rolled very cold and insinuating down between her breasts . |
| 12 | The primatial claim was the richest and rarest of the gifts of which the monks of Canterbury believed themselves to be the custodians . |
| 13 | It was said that if the Tsarists of Russia asked him to , he would even despatch his own mother . |
| 14 | Millions of pounds of investment meant nothing to Bedford-St Pancras commuters when their long-awaited new electric trains were laid up in the sidings while BR and the rail unions hammered each other over one-man operation . |
| 15 | Hooks of meat , barrows of vegetables , trays of pies , urns of tea passed him in every direction . |
| 16 | Now only another thirty yards of lawn separated them from the side wall of the house . |
| 17 | The cheerful holiday atmosphere and sophisticated pleasures of Oban held us for the weekend , and we were involved in a very entertaining water carnival . |
| 18 | I endeavoured to paint a picture of this scene , but again and again legions of midges drove me from the spot : I got a phial of essence supposed to keep them away , but alas ! in vain . |
| 19 | It was not long before someone threw a lump of broken paving through a window ; a dozen sets of plans followed it in short order . |
| 20 | The defences on the Danube had been neglected , for as long as the frontier lay on the Dniester the inhabitants of Moesia believed themselves to be secure . |
| 21 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 22 | Friends of Piatakov restrained him from time to time lest Lenin discover the truth . |
| 23 | The common sense , suburban philosophy of the accountant 's daughter from Surrey Hills — ‘ one thing at a time , ’ forever ringing in her ear — over-rode all the tempting words Stock , Aitken and Waterman and the money men of pop bombarded her with . |
| 24 | At first the simple machines available could only detect down a few inches , and — amongst other operating difficulties — encounters with tufts of grass caused them to constantly give off false signals . |
| 25 | The belief — fallacious , as it turned out — in the unique selling points of Event lulled everybody on the magazine into a false sense of security . |
| 26 | It has dedicated its Canadian historical collection to one of the art world 's more radical attempts to engage the spectator : one room mimics a nineteenth-century salon , with scores of paintings crammed one above the other to the advantage of none ; another gallery , devoted to the famed Group of Seven , contains a pew-like bench set directly in front of Tom Thomson 's ‘ West Wind ’ ( a national icon ) and two landscapes by Lauren Harris , rigged with telephones providing a soundtrack on the artists . |
| 27 | Although Norman horsemen used stirrups , a major invention and development in terms of medieval warfare , it is not certain if the warriors of Charlemagne used them to any great extent . |
| 28 | ‘ Is the Old Mother failing then ? ’ he asked , as if thoughts of Sycorax distracted him from tasting . |
| 29 | There are also these privatization a lot of husbands and wives bought these shares of privatization had it in joint names , well that tax will have been deducted and can be reclaimed also , so er this was a change that came about with independent taxation . |
| 30 | Not that the organs of perception apprehended it at the time . |