Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were lost in the violent pounding from the east . |
| 2 | His words were lost in the frightened screams of the women , the crying of terrified children , the loud cursing and swearing — and sometimes praying — of the men . |
| 3 | His words were lost in the sudden explosion which took the front off Police Headquarters . |
| 4 | Stok crossed his arms across his face and began to pull his shirt off , and his words were lost beneath the white cotton . |
| 5 | The words were written by the tubercular vicar of All Saints , Lower Brixham , the Rev H F Lyte ( 1793–1847 ) , during his last months of illness . |
| 6 | The words were whispered in a soft western English accent , a gentle hint of Ireland making an enchanting spell for the eager listener . |
| 7 | The fewest words were recalled with the random word order and the greatest number with correct word order . |
| 8 | The words were scrawled on the frontal of the marble high altar . |
| 9 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 10 | Strong words were exchanged with the latter band by the organisers , who demanded a quick piece of historical rewriting to expunge this accidental slur on the workers ' state . |
| 11 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 12 | The last words were accompanied by a baleful glare at Lucy . |
| 13 | Yanto 's honeyed words were accompanied by a silly grin . |
| 14 | If on my time you prepare that waste wood into bundles such as any man could store at home , and if in your own time you will carry those bundles around the town and distribute them free , to rich and poor alike — but not to any man who was landlord to any among us — we may together teach them — ’ The rest of his words were drowned in a universal roar of delight . |
| 15 | The list of words were taken from a shorter dictionary ( 21,211 words ) . |
| 16 | You made sure those words were learnt for the next day . |
| 17 | The last words were suffused with a whining bitterness . |
| 18 | His words were interrupted by a derisive snort . |
| 19 | Her words were interrupted by a triumphant shout of amusement from Geoffrey . |
| 20 | My words were interrupted by a full measure of ‘ My dear young lady ’ . |
| 21 | When the words were spoken for the third time , however , the divorce was irrevocable . |
| 22 | The words were spoken with a provocative , sidelong glance and Melissa was sure that , just for the hell of it , he was trying to trick her into questioning him over his relationship with Rose . |
| 23 | It was about the debate , about health care in America and the words were provided by an American reporter . |
| 24 | When national characteristics were talked about a hundred years ago , in the great days of Darwinism and eugenics and so on , it was a pseudo-scientific talk erm implying that there was some blood or racial characteristics which marked one people off from another , and this lay at the bottom of all that talk about Anglo-Saxon racial superiority , which erm led plenty of people in this country to suppose that erm the white peoples of Northern Europe and North America had some characteristics which made them superior to coloured people , and all kind of bogus scientific arguments followed from that . |
| 25 | The theoretical aspects were formulated in the mid-1940s and the first dates were published in December 1949 . |
| 26 | Guidelines were introduced by the then Prime Minister , Geoffrey Palmer , with effect from June 1 , 1990 , under which Cabinet ministers , ministers outside the Cabinet and parliamentary under-secretaries were required to disclose their financial interests within four weeks of taking office and annually thereafter . |
| 27 | Furthermore , the mutated oligonucleotides were unable to compete out the complexes formed by the wild type sequences , even when a 500 molar excess of competitor was used ( data not shown ) , reinforcing the conclusion that the protein-DNA complexes were mediated by the mutated guanine residues . |
| 28 | Isolated vesicles were used in the first direct demonstration of Na + /H + exchange , by Murer in rabbit jejunum . |
| 29 | Kilmarnock went down by the only goal of the game at Dumbarton , where several hundred fans were evacuated from the main stand just minutes before the game was due to start . |
| 30 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |