Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 2 | It was precisely their erudition , their cultivation , their financial security , their disdain for the mediocre that led them to the gas chambers . |
| 3 | The Runefangs were presented to the ruling Emperor who divided them between the Elector counts . |
| 4 | Well somebody built them at the boat builders in Orkney built some . |
| 5 | He weighed himself on the bathroom scales . |
| 6 | The next morning found him on the practice fields as soon as the sun was up , battering his post as though it were a mortal enemy . |
| 7 | His sense of the ridiculous helped him through the myriad indignities which he and Lindsay underwent . |
| 8 | Wimbledon champion Edberg lasted until Courier beat him in the quarter finals . |
| 9 | Touching down on the main wheels first , the Ercoupe twitched into line ; they even tried it with the rudder pedals locked , flying on elevator and aileron only , but found the feeling ‘ rather disconcerting ’ ! |
| 10 | The raiders smashed the front door panel of the garage shop and helped themselves from the cigarette shelves . |
| 11 | subsequently after about ten flights , and porting over the books , and speaking to people who serviced them during the war years , they discovered that all it needed was a well-placed whack with a hammer on the trailing edge of the aileron . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've got an even better one — told me by a cowman years ago — when charged by a bull , stand your ground and when it gets close enough , grab it by the nose . |
| 13 | By the time Edward III finally divested himself of the Templar lands , in 1338 , he had already resumed the alien priories for the duration of the war and was thus compensated for any losses resulting . |
| 14 | She never told him about the phone calls : I think perhaps she thought that might drive him away . |
| 15 | Tavalouze poked him between the shoulder blades until he straightened up . |
| 16 | The guns , which can take blank ammunition and are used in country and western events , were in a case left in the car when the owner parked it outside the Boiler Makers ' club . |
| 17 | O'Hara rode his motor-cycle to the Pier Head and parked it against the granite bollards at the entrance to the Albert Dock . |
| 18 | included in mine , so it meant that they paid me for the summer holidays cos I did n't officially really |
| 19 | Leaves danced curlicues on the pavement as the wind ripped them from the plane trees and sent them scurrying along the ground . |
| 20 | In time the Soviet bloc might begin to break up as nationalism reasserted itself among the satellite states . |
| 21 | Ace threw herself at the speeder controls , stamping on the throttle override while wrenching the steering column forward . |
| 22 | He dragged her across Park Lane , dodging a last , straggling taxi , almost threw her over the guard rails on the far side of the road into Hyde Park and strode ahead into the looming darkness of the trees . |
| 23 | Once we got it off we showed him around the fire appliances and he went away happy , ’ said John . |
| 24 | During the weeks before the project began , their main tasks were , firstly , informing themselves about dementia and the needs of dementia sufferers and their relatives ( by reading , by talking to service-providers , dementia sufferers and their carers , and by visiting other similar care initiatives such as those in Liverpool and Oxford ) ; they also informed themselves about the action areas where they would be working ( finding out where the elderly people lived , what services were available , the individuals who provided them ) ; secondly , they informed others about the new project by visiting social services department teams , health authority staff , voluntary organisations , and general practitioners . |
| 25 | We are grateful to the concerned Dogs Today reader who informed us of the lobbying activities of this organisation . |
| 26 | They arranged them on the sand lemons or onions or oranges — in careful little piles and sold them for so much a pile . |
| 27 | You typed the articles , relieved me of the household chores and fed me royally . |
| 28 | At lunch-time he addressed himself to the kitchen cupboards and the refrigerator and was touched , though not surprised , at how spartan was the fare that Pooley allowed himself . |
| 29 | ‘ Billy told me he kissed you in the rose gardens , ’ Annie said smiling . |
| 30 | She pressed herself against the wall inches away from the door and used a piece of corroded piping at her feet to ease it open . |