Example sentences of "group of [noun] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of musicians stood in the angle of one of the buttresses of the cathedral playing tambour and fife whilst the Dean and Chapter , garlands of roses on their heads , danced in solemn procession around the severed head of a buck which had been placed on a pole , its brown eyes staring glassily over those who now rejoiced at its death . |
| 2 | A group of men and a group of women came down the road at sunrise . |
| 3 | When I landed and taxied to the dispersal point an awed group of aircraftsmen crowded around the machine to examine the damage . |
| 4 | The Group of Rio originated from the Contadora group seeking a Central American peace formula in 1984-85 [ see pp. 34032-33 ] , subsequently evolving into a permanent forum to discuss inter-regional affairs . |
| 5 | That reminds me of the time a group of schoolgirls wrote to the newsroom to say they liked to swim off the Gower in the middle of winter . |
| 6 | The raiding party was to leave by air for Jalo on 11 January , but shortly before this a bedraggled group of men arrived at the base camp . |
| 7 | He blew a whistle and a group of men marched down the path with precision , and stood silently on the shoreline . |
| 8 | At eleven o'clock a group of children came over the hill . |
| 9 | A group of children clustered at the place where the bridge forked to provide access to a set of warehouses . |
| 10 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 11 | Suddenly , guns were fired again , and a group of pirates ran from the woods and on to the stockade . |