Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( avoiding the word " but " ) , the sufferer is presented with clear choices that have been discussed and agreed by the participants in advance . |
| 2 | Before the Soviet revolution of 1917 , one approached and rode through the groves in silence lest the gods and spirits of the woods be offended . |
| 3 | I pulled on a sweater and trousers and crept down the stairs in bare feet . |
| 4 | The civil service found itself penetrated and politicized in the mid-1980s in a manner unknown since the days of Lloyd George . |
| 5 | Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am . |
| 6 | Just as though he had not been going to walk past into the kitchen , he wheeled , and pounded up the stairs in front of her . |
| 7 | They shelled out their dollars and gambled on the winners in a series of three exciting contests of speed and agility . |
| 8 | Trent surfaced and yelled at the men in the cockpit to swim a lifejacket out to him . |
| 9 | They leapt for the platform and shoved up the stairs in front of the people waiting , leaving their adversaries jeering and circling below . |
| 10 | He was the only one to spot the danger to the mother and child , and dashed onto the tracks in order to try and save their lives , waving his arms frantically . |
| 11 | The two males climbed aboard and worked on the leaks in the hull , using bundles of rush , which the females gathered . |
| 12 | Early in their walk she had handed him the usual tenpenny piece , and now she heard a faint tinkle and watched while he stuck his candle in the socket , and reached for the matches in their brass holder . |
| 13 | Investing in a jump suit and hard hat Della turned up at the aerodrome and took to the skies in a plane |
| 14 | These ladies in full flight scared the pants off the eunuchs who were standing guard on their tees , and who immediately dropped their balls and scarpered with the wives in hot ‘ pur ’ suit . |
| 15 | There , he would be another old person elbowed and nudged by the hordes in their restive wildebeest migration in search of gratification . |
| 16 | So she gave up , and sat between the vines in the hot sun , alternately sleeping and working her way through the dusty volumes of Peregrine Pickle , bound in crimson and gold leather , with real bookworms making agitated forays from their dark crannies into the heat and light across the extraordinary scenes where Smollett 's elderly ladies retained their urine indefinitely to put out putative fires , or sweetened their foul breaths with violet cachous to deceive desired young lovers . |
| 17 | This approach was taken by the Court of Appeal in the following case but failed on the facts in the House of Lords . |
| 18 | Endill was tired the next day but slept underneath the floorboards in History class . |