Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others went off for extended periods as migrant ( dekasegi ) workers or severed their ties with the land altogether . |
| 2 | Rather than ramming the trainers with the guns , the dolphins either " swam away or put their snouts on the trainers ' shoulders — very affectionately ! " |
| 3 | He would n't be allowed to fart or pick his nose or put his feet on the table . |
| 4 | She reached for the little wrist and laid her fingers against the inside . |
| 5 | He pushed back the chairs and laid his blankets on the floor to fall asleep , as always , the moment he closed his eyes . |
| 6 | They cantered down into the village and led their horses into the graveyard . |
| 7 | I shook the rain out of my hair and wiped my feet on the doormat , then stepped into the porch and tried the inner door . |
| 8 | He put down the carving knife on the chopping block and wiped his hands on the end of his apron . |
| 9 | The dawn of the philosophical Enlightenment had almost no effect upon the average European who still tilled his feudal strip and grazed his animals on the common land . |
| 10 | In 1786 , when Robert Burns was preparing his poetry for publication for the first time , he took his manuscript to Glenconner and read his poems to the Tennant family for their approval or otherwise . |
| 11 | I stopped a hundred yards down the road and checked my bearings in the paperback A-Z I keep taped behind the sun visor . |
| 12 | Thatcher 's friends , such as former United Biscuits boss Sir Hector Laing , used to implore her to give British industry the kind of support that was rather more consistent than those who bought and sold its shares in the City . |
| 13 | If Sid put £100 ( $175 ) into each of the big privatisations and sold his shares on the first day of trading — as many such investors did — he would ( before expenses ) have got back an extra 41% . |
| 14 | The villagers ate dates from the wadi 's palms , fed their sheep and goats on its shrubs , and made their homes from the mud and vegetation . |
| 15 | He was wearing a T-shirt , and she slid her hands beneath it and threaded her fingers through the soft curls on his chest . |
| 16 | During 1775 he continued prison visiting in England and expanded his enquiries to the continent . |
| 17 | Suddenly they all surged towards me and flung their coins into the canvas sheet I was guarding and one old codger decided to go home . |
| 18 | Dr Christine Henderson , the first such volunteer , had recently returned from Zimbabwe and described her experiences to the IC , providing graphic examples of the sort of problems that could encountered . |
| 19 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 20 | Constantine , late in his reign , demolished some temples and confiscated their estates throughout the empire , in-corporating them into the res privata , but keeping their accounts in a special category as fundi iuris templorum . |
| 21 | But he also made use of tunes from bourgeois sources — and transformed their meanings in the process . |
| 22 | She swung his legs over his head , and fastened his ankles to the bedrail beside his wrists . |
| 23 | She stepped up to his desk , as he continued flicking through some papers , and fixed her eyes on the top of his arrogant head . |
| 24 | I gulped , and fixed my eyes on the blood-red pen on the desk . |
| 25 | He did not budge as Mr Gubb raised the cane above his shoulder and fixed his eyes on the boy 's fingers with the concentration of a golfer addressing his ball . |
| 26 | FSLN leaders had been given farms and houses because , the Sandinistas argued , they had sacrificed good salaries for a decade and dedicated their lives to the defence of the country against the US-backed contra rebels . |
| 27 | She could sense Guy watching her with narrowed attention , and clenched her hands inside the pockets of her suede waistcoat , battling to get her reactions under control . |
| 28 | Although it will be easily grasped that war destroys large amounts of material means of production and means of consumption , he went further and analysed its effects upon the forces of production and the accumulation of capital . |
| 29 | Forty-six years on , John Edelnand , now living in Luton , revisited Gwrych Castle and the neighbouring village of Abergele and found his memories of the local people still clear : |
| 30 | Guido climbed out and snatched her cases from the back seat . |