Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It did not belong to the prisoners who had escaped that day . |
| 2 | The projects they had undertaken all had particular relevance to current group objectives , and Mr Davies wished them well in their career with Johnson Matthey . |
| 3 | These were the groups which had suffered most from the dislocations of the war , and an element of class antagonism can perhaps be detected in their hatred of wealthy Whig financiers and rich local Dissenters ( especially the Presbyterians ) . |
| 4 | The land they tilled and the animals they raised absorbed most of their working hours . |
| 5 | Two thirds of all the teenagers we interviewed agreed that sex education at school missed out too much . |
| 6 | Up to the darkroom to begin at once the pictures she had taken this afternoon . |
| 7 | the supporters who had exercised such decorum for so long at last gave vent to their true feelings . |
| 8 | as if to prove that he is in earnest , God immediately afflicts the spies who had caused such panic among the people with the plague . |
| 9 | In the centre the earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows , and there was a narrow , regular hole , about the same size as one of the carrots they had carried that morning . |
| 10 | Around the huts he had avoided all contact with her and although they stood side by side listening to her husband , he did nothing to acknowledge her existence . |
| 11 | I 've proved that , yes — ’ in the words he 'd used that very morning ‘ — even Bluebeard has to take time off . |
| 12 | After all the Spartans were said to be relatives of the Sabines who had given many wives and some kings to the Romans . |
| 13 | From a small vase , she took two of the daisies they had picked that afternoon and wound them strategically in Portia 's hair . |
| 14 | Being right in line with the posts we had expected some sort of obstacle to look round but not a moving one ! |
| 15 | The European Community was born out of an unswerving determination that the countries which had fought each other in two terrible wars during this century should never be at war again . |
| 16 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 17 | She had loved him , almost obsessively , since the age of sixteen and , though he had never in any way encouraged her , over the years she had built all her dreams around him . |
| 18 | Over the years she had forced these thoughts from her mind , telling herself that her sons were the product of their father . |
| 19 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 20 | Finally the workers who had suffered most were in the public sector , where incomes policy had held wage growth well below that of elsewhere . |
| 21 | For the classes who did have enough to bequeath , we have valuable evidence about the patterns of inheritance preferred in the early nineteenth century from a variety of sources , especially a study by Davidoff and Hall ( 1987 ) of 622 wills made in two different areas of England during the period 1780–1850 . |
| 22 | Where were all the resolutions she had spent most of the night making ? |
| 23 | The managers I spoke to have both taken up positions in this particular store because previous management were not competent in their jobs . |
| 24 | By all the Gods he had showed those peasant scum . |
| 25 | Like if Nick was dead and I was remembering the things we 'd done this year , perhaps . |
| 26 | She had instructed the maids not to disturb her for she valued her privacy and having staff constantly on hand was one of the things she had found most difficult to become accustomed to . |
| 27 | He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week . |
| 28 | Nor would a third person enjoy as much as we did the dreams we liked to tell each other . |
| 29 | They therefore published terrible stories about the hardships of emigration and the problems which had befallen many emigrants . |
| 30 | Nowadays I keep huge lists of every person , organisation and publication connected with birds , so I hope I 'll never again have the problems I had finding that owl . |