Example sentences of "group of [noun pl] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Dutch Navy made a detailed survey of the whole group of islands immediately after the eruption , and the maps they produced revealed the full extent of the effects of the explosions which had reverberated round so much of the world . |
| 2 | Those who took the decisions at the Fourth Lateran Council were a very small group of cardinals close to the pope and , on occasion , the pope himself , alone . |
| 3 | Billie had been roughly bundled by a group of storm-troopers away from the burning car and into the Dresden Heide . |
| 4 | She first made an impression in an adaptation of J. B. Priestley 's rambling tale about a group of travelling performers , The Good Companions ( 1933 ) , and followed that with Friday the Thirteenth ( 1933 ) , which recounts the activities of a group of characters immediately before the crash of the bus in which they are riding . |
| 5 | The man looked round the bar before marching over to a group of men down at the end of the counter . |
| 6 | They ran like a group of children back to the house . |
| 7 | A QUB woman student , a member of the NDP , recalled having told a group of policemen early in the events that their conditions were as bad as those the demonstrators were protesting about . |