Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ hall ’ includes all the rectangular timber buildings whose only remains are the postholes and beam-slots dug into the subsoil . |
| 2 | In the winter spanners and hammers froze to the hands . |
| 3 | Both booking and grand halls were decorated in Royal Doulton faience to a height of 7 ft. ; each had mosaic floors and balconies ran round the walls at a height of 30 ft . |
| 4 | His beard and teeth got in the way . |
| 5 | The bringing together of school-leavers and vacancies began with the adolescent being interviewed at school , after which a form was completed by the headteacher and a member of the SCC , just as the ‘ Friendly Visitors ’ had done prior to 1910 . |
| 6 | Its ancient buildings reflect the air of a former age , when the pace of life was slow , when landlords and merchants lived off the fat of the land and when labourers , in vast numbers , worked that land . |
| 7 | Though some theory is presented for each , the bulk of the information is the basic practical information and skills imparted to the client . |
| 8 | Large towns and cities existed throughout the country . |
| 9 | The day of the Agricultural Fair approached and passions rose in the village . |
| 10 | Shocked giggles and sniggers ran round the company . ’ |
| 11 | Their wails and screams rose above the crackle of their burning homes and were made even more blood-curdling by the clangorous din of the church bells that frantically appealed to heaven for aid . |
| 12 | There were banana gardens and pawpaw trees , and outriggers lazed on the lagoon . |
| 13 | Artists and craftsmen came to the city , not only from northern France and Flanders , but also from England . |
| 14 | The dogs would have chips coded with their owners ' names and addresses implanted below the fur . |
| 15 | ‘ At eight o'clock in the morning , a vast concourse of ladies and gentlemen appeared on the side of Derwent Lake , where a number of marquees , extending about four hundred yards , were erected . ’ |
| 16 | Deformed sperms , de-energised sperms and sperms deterred by the acid environment of the womb , were catalogued so that when the camera followed the successful ones on their journey it seemed a miracle that any got to their destination at all . |
| 17 | Not all forces responded to that survey , but the results suggested that the percentage of notifiable offences involving the use of sharp instruments and knives fell during the period surveyed . |
| 18 | ‘ You 'll Never Walk Alone ’ was sung with gusto and flares glowed on the terraces as Liverpool started with barely controlled frenzy . |
| 19 | Today , the Croats insist that the number of Serbs , gypsies and Jews massacred in the camps of the quisling Axis-allied Croatian state was only a tiny fraction of that claimed by the communists . |
| 20 | ‘ Three cheers for Taureg ! ’ came the order and once , twice , three times , hats and caps rose in the air and once , twice , three times the assembled well-wishers roared their approval . |
| 21 | Rivers flashed by , and mountains appeared on the horizon . |
| 22 | She could n't see their features , because they wore facemasks and goggles — not without reason , for when they tipped the ladles to pour , white-hot metal splashed like pancake batter and sparks flew through the air . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the republican parliament was barricaded after the Vilnius killings , and tensions rose in the capital , Tallinn , after two bombs exploded on Jan. 21 at factories which were considered centres of Russian worker resistance to the nationalist government . |
| 24 | Over the centuries these Greeks and Karians intermarried with the natives , so that in hellenistic times people called ‘ Karomemphites ’ and ‘ Hellenomemphites ’ , obvious results of miscegenation , are attested in Memphis . |
| 25 | Black cracks and gaps yawned in the pillars . |
| 26 | Mehta 's assets , as well as those of 30 other individuals and companies implicated in the case , were seized on June 8 ; on June 14 the government announced that it had frozen the assets of three senior bank officials of the State Bank of India . |
| 27 | Antoinette 's legs and feet twitched under the covers , would suddenly throw themselves from side to side . |
| 28 | Often the activists were fifteen and sixteen years old and parents lived with the fear that their own children could become involved . |
| 29 | The machinery and plates came to the Museum from Enfield , North London . |
| 30 | A wide semicircle of Germans and Repubblichini formed on the edge of the pianura near Parma and moved up towards the mountains , looting and burning villages ; some times shooting in the air to spread terror and sometimes hanging or deporting the inhabitants . |