Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 2 | Take a drive in the country during the hedgehog season and you will see the remains of thousands of them splattered across the roads . |
| 3 | Corbett thought it was mere drunken bravado when one of them lunged across the table and uproar ensued as food , cups and flagons of wine and ale were sent sprawling . |
| 4 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 5 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 6 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 7 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 8 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 9 | More to the point , at that age , Auntie tells me , I saw no distinction between the two Fathers , both of whom lived in the sky . |
| 10 | In a very real sense , of course , the biographies of the Muftis in the following chapters illustrate the development of the hierarchy , but it seems not without point to concentrate attention on this particular aspect by placing side by side the biographies of two scholars , one of whom lived in the period before the hierarchy had become developed to any very great degree — before , perhaps , it is even possible to speak of a hierarchy-he other in a period when the development was fairly well advanced , though not complete . |
| 11 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 12 | The report showed that there were between 27,000,000 and 35,000,000 blind people in the world , over 90 per cent of whom lived in the developing world , mostly in rural areas . |
| 13 | There were three of them seated in the wardroom , Talbot , Van Gelder and Grierson . |
| 14 | Matilda took the knife she had been eating with , and all four of them crept towards the dining-room door , the father keeping well behind the others . |
| 15 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 16 | Everyone argued about the jury . |
| 17 | The glass before them became like a mirror for the briefest time but it was a distorting , ghost-train mirror , more shadow than substance-with his mind adding hallucinatory details to the little that he could see . |
| 18 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 19 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 20 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 21 | The men drank beer from the bottles , and one of them passed round the cigarettes he had bought on the flight , and the blond girl contributed a half-bottle of Stock brandy . |
| 22 | The bomb-bay of a Mosquito was too small to accommodate so large a bomb , and they had to carry them slung underneath the fuselage with the bomb doors open . |
| 23 | Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths . |
| 24 | We have two grown-up children and one grandchild and I enjoy big family gatherings — the Italian influence again — with everyone seated at a round table . |
| 25 | There will eventually be 10 zones in all , each of them designated in an area of particularly high unemployment . |
| 26 | ‘ There were 17 players in the team and everyone got on the pitch at some point during the game , ’ he added . |
| 27 | Everyone got off the train at Winnipeg , one thousand , four hundred and thirteen miles along the rails from Toronto . |
| 28 | Neither of them cared for the sexually explicit — ‘ Rather like having an operation described to one , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 29 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 30 | The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative . |