Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds gather on the platforms at Hof station , Bavaria , holding sheets of paper with names aloft on sticks , anxiously scanning the faces of the crowds pouring out of the trains , just as Germans did when millions fled before the advancing Russians or the avenging Poles and Czechs at the end of the war . |
| 2 | After forceful driving by the male , eggs are laid in , or moved to the brooding tunnels or cave and protected carefully mainly by the male , sometimes apparently actually sitting on the eggs . |
| 3 | In Rome these stressed the emperor 's achievements ( military victories , public works , etc. ) , his virtues and divine endorsement of his regime ; in the provinces they dwelt on the important cults or monuments of the city which made them . |
| 4 | When the Fens was mainly marshland , people clustered on the small humps or islands of boulder clay which were dry point sites . |
| 5 | The town horses came in every three weeks or a month for re-shoeing . |
| 6 | When the Frankish armies entered Saxony , the Saxons usually hid in the endless forests or untracked marshlands ; there they simply waited until the Franks had marched through , and emerged either to harry from behind or continue their nomadic life in another area . |
| 7 | Sniffed for a few weeks or months . |
| 8 | Housed together under one roof from the early 1800s , and arranged and rearranged over the years ( but always with the Elgin Marbles at the centre ) , the collection was the raw material from which scholars wrought theories of the ‘ Progress of Antiquity ’ that culminated with the Ancient Greeks or , in direct opposition , that of cultural relativity accepted today . |
| 9 | The public would no more identify with the new councils than they did with the present ones or did with the old councils , Prof Midwinter stressed . |
| 10 | They slipped on the blood-slicked cobbles or tripped on the bodies that choked the ground . |
| 11 | They stayed in the luxurious hotels or rented or bought quintas , attracted by the low cost of living , low taxation , the hospitality of the people and the beauty of the island — although many people ( and this is often still true today ) never or rarely left their hotel . |
| 12 | The interesting factor in all those arguments is that my hon. Friends who sat on the respective Committees or spoke on the Second Reading of Bills associated with privatisation said at the time that the Government were privatising monopoly , not introducing effective competition and regulation , and the matter would have to be examined again . |