Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun pl] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 2 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 3 | They had invented Emor ; they did ninety per cent of the paperwork , agreed the salaries of the officials and devised most of the activities . |
| 4 | Alexander found that the control group shared the views of the complainants and disagreed with those supporting the managers in 18 out of 20 areas . |
| 5 | A rival of the Round Table , this party boycotted the elections on the grounds that the Supreme Soviet belonged to a power structure illegally imposed on Georgia . |
| 6 | Many felt sympathy with Morrissey 's stance over this , but many did n't , preferring instead to follow Julie Burchill 's line that Bands Aid was the first record in the history of popular music that actually achieved a positive result ; that Band Aid made the likes of The Redskins quake in their Doc Marten 's and feel totally inconsequential . |
| 7 | The night was full of the rasp and scrape of branches as the wind made the limbs of the trees beat against one another . |
| 8 | Then other humans made the bits from the drawings , then lots more humans ( with the aid of other machines designed by humans ) screwed , rivetted , welded or glued the bits together , each in its right place . |
| 9 | The wind rattled at the bars and made the doors of the Cages shake and squeak . |
| 10 | Their performances revealed the sources of the composers ' inspiration — in the Martinu Sextet the riffs and flourishes of the Parisian jazz cellar , the gypsy violin in the sombre Dumka of Dvorak 's Op 48 Sextet , even the traces of gothic horror ( Mary Shelley was a favourite bedtime read ) in Mendelssohn 's Quintet in B flat . |
| 11 | Panorama on the Cardiff Three revealed the irregularities of the police approach to the murder investigation . |
| 12 | In 1938 he read The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and appeared to suffer the same ‘ road to Damascus ’ transformation of personality which afflicted Arnold Leese on reading that document . |
| 13 | I wiped the handles of the cupboards I had touched with my handkerchief , but left the cloakroom door because we all use that room . |
| 14 | Pavel Zhikarev , who stood down as chairman after 25 years at Sberbank , laid the foundations for the changes that lie ahead . |
| 15 | Elf ships raced across the seas and charted the coasts of the continents . |
| 16 | If we consider for a moment the extent to which the hero-kings of early agricultural societies did indeed come to play a maternal , provident role with regard to those dependent on them we can perhaps begin to see the truth of the claim that they became the heirs of the matriarchs . |
| 17 | They became the instructors of the Brahmins and were the progenitors of Sun worship itself . |
| 18 | She scanned the houses in the streets , looking at the Christmas trees in gaily lit windows , the decorations that were hanging from ceilings . |
| 19 | I announced the titles of the textbooks we would be using . |
| 20 | she got the forms from the teachers ' training college at er , at Shipley near er near where we were |
| 21 | And but when did you get hold of your new f when you got the jobs in the hotels , was that when you first came across here ? |
| 22 | Carolyn noticed that everyone was watching Bryony , and Bryony smiled and threaded the ear-rings through the holes in her ears , and they must all have a look and comment . |
| 23 | A few years earlier he had been the undisputed master of the empire : two hundred thousand of his warriors had paraded before him while a hundred thousand others guarded the marches of the north or fought the Somalis in the deserts to the east . |
| 24 | Against Chamberlain it was remembered that he was a Liberal Unionist ( as was Lansdowne , who led the Unionists in the Lords ) and that he had not been entirely loyal to Balfour since the referendum pledge . |
| 25 | Under the menacing eyes of Edward 's Forest judges , juries in Essex , Hampshire , Gloucestershire , Derby , Staffordshire , Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire restated the bounds of the forests in their counties at their widest extent . |
| 26 | The opposition especially disputed the results for the governorships of Durango and Veracruz , where the PRD and PAN ran joint slates . |
| 27 | ‘ Once we realised the implications of the Cattle Identification Documents ( CIDS ) necessary to hold the administration of a two-stage payment together we looked hard at a slaughter premium , ’ explained Mr Cowan . |
| 28 | The committee had previously deferred a decision while it sought the views of the police . |
| 29 | In the early 1960s , American Professor of Astronomy , Gerald Hawkins , analysed the positions of the stones at Stonehenge by computer and calculated the extreme rising and setting positions of sun and moon in 1500BC . |
| 30 | When Bell and his colleagues analysed the contents of the stomachs of four of the five ( they did not study buffalo ) , they found that each species was living on a different part of the vegetation . |