Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe showed no interest in Riddle 's study or his bedroom , instead he tried another of the mahogany doors . |
| 2 | Ernst Haeckel ( who described some of the Challenger specimens ) argued that Hensen 's sampling techniques must have been faulty , but further studies gradually confirmed his results . |
| 3 | While Gabriel was emptying the cart of all remaining rubbish , ready for painting , he found some of the parchment petitions . |
| 4 | it would throw me completely if you put , if you changed some of the number plates over . |
| 5 | The clubmosses , which created most of the coal seams , are more closely related to ferns than they are to pine trees , and oil — from which most synthetics are obtained — is not derived from plants at all . |
| 6 | In the West Riding woollen manufacture the independent working clothiers had long used the spring shuttle , and as a group who produced much of the food needs of their households were well enough protected from the high food prices of the war years . |
| 7 | Nicola , you suffered some of the side effects that we 've been hearing about tonight , and then things got really bad . |
| 8 | Is not it time that the Minister ignored some of the siren voices behind her ? |
| 9 | Also from stock came many of the set dressings , including one latticed wall divider used in virtually every episode for a different function . |
| 10 | July/August 1991 : There was a mini-launch at trinity Road for HCIMA 's distance Learning Scheme , when the scheme 's coordinator , and of Newcastle College , joined some of the course tutors from the colleges which would be Distance Learning centres , to celebrate the production of the first unit . |
| 11 | This minimized many of the employment inflexibilities which were endemic to modernist bureaucratic and Fordist organizations . |
| 12 | It had n't taken Sister Anne long to discover how intelligent Topaz was and , as the former was a born teacher , she forgot all about the gold earrings and the unseemly deportment and got down to business . |
| 13 | She left him and joined those at the milk churns . |
| 14 | The party met many of the Branch Officers , and received hospitality from both Civic authorities and the South African Air Force . |
| 15 | I regularly get total signal failure and if I followed some of the compass courses displayed I would never be heard of again . |
| 16 | She dyed some of the rice grains a different colour from the background , these grains were easy to see : she dyed other grains the same colour as the background , which made them difficult to see . |
| 17 | The government has , alas , enclosed some of the mountain streams in concrete banks to prevent land erosion . |
| 18 | She defied much of the casting formulae employed with the ‘ Carry On ’ concept . |
| 19 | They lobbied councillors to ensure Akers Way would never witness another accident … they achieved many of the safety changes they 'd called for . |
| 20 | In 1960 the old church had to be re-slated at a cost of £400 and in 1960 also Mr J H Montgomery recorded some of the harvest services for the benefit of members unable to get to church because of age or illness . |
| 21 | I then dissolved some of the hydroquinone crystals in water , put a drop of the solution on an ordinary glass microscope slide and allowed the water to evaporate naturally in air so that new , but much smaller , needle crystals were produced as the solution dried under the microscope . |
| 22 | In fact , as head of the New York city organised crime unit , he arrested many of the heroin mufiosi who infested the town 30 years ago . |
| 23 | Yeah we saw that in the Radio Times . |
| 24 | He knew all about the Target Teams of Customs & Excise . |
| 25 | In addition , from their position on the moral high ground , they repeatedly denounced many of the leisure pursuits of their neighbours , such as drinking , dancing , and theatre-going , which they regarded as occasions of sin and distractions from religious devotion . |
| 26 | they did that for the school children |
| 27 | Although Bush won all of the Republican contests , his margins of victory were not sufficiently large either to destroy Buchanan 's candidacy , or to disguise the sizeable portion of Republicans who were dissatisfied with Bush 's record . |
| 28 | In August and September the USA and the Soviet Union removed many of the travel restrictions hitherto imposed on each other 's diplomats . |
| 29 | Havis himself did most of the cockpit shots , and these are skilfully intercut into air-to-air shots of Concorde , including a beautiful head-on one ( used several times ) of the Great White Dart skimming the cloud-tops leaving a vortex of white in its high-speed wake . |
| 30 | So did most of the Sunni inhabitants of Sidon , Tripoli and Beirut . |