Example sentences of "[art] [n mass] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They drove off the hostile bands and shortened their lines of communication , now running back to Ainaro , to where the headquarters had moved . |
| 2 | More and more instructions , more and more complex in their nature descended more and more frequently upon local offices , but without any adequately effective co-ordination at the Headquarters level to ensure that those in the outfield had a clear enough idea of what their order of priorities should be as they became less and less able to deal effectively with the totality of their responsibilities . |
| 3 | The Headquarters team doing all the planning and Districts taking over once a project |
| 4 | When the unit is in place , adjust the angle of the mercury switch S1 so that the gentle vibration experienced as the car is being driven causes the l.e.d. to stop flashing . |
| 5 | The transmitter should now be operated and the l.e.d. held pointing downwards approximately 10cm away from the top of the phototransistor on the receiver unit . |
| 6 | She had thrown Luke to the ground , herself on top of him , and when the yelling and the thudding and the terrible , high-pitched howling of collective terror had been over , when the cavalry had charged through the crowd like a scythe through a cornfield and silence such a silence had fallen , she had opened her eyes and seen blood everywhere , in her hair and her hands , all over the stupefied , half-suffocated child . |
| 7 | The cavalry had arrived , the dambusters had done it . |
| 8 | The foot soldiers came up in rows , yelling and dancing and it was a marvel they were not ridden down , as the cavalry seemed to dash right into them . |
| 9 | Had the infantry been thrown in first , it might have succeeded , giving the cavalry time to regroup and adopt some outflanking tactics . |
| 10 | ‘ So the cavalry has arrived ! ’ |
| 11 | The bFGF bound to sucralfate was harvested and the radioactivity was counted for 1 minute in a γ scintillation counter ( LKB Wallace , Wien , Austria ) . |
| 12 | At a meeting with the Lords Lieutenant , it was recorded , ‘ many of them being so sick by this great fatigue , and out of all hopes of relief from His Majesty 's forces , absolutely refused to hold out any longer ’ , whereupon the city corporation , conscious that already some of the militia had disappeared over the walls and fearing further desertions , voted by 24 to 15 to capitulate . |
| 13 | The officer in charge of the militia refused to let his men take part in the eviction , saying they were there merely to prevent disorder . |
| 14 | It somehow gave the impression that the fowl had led such a delightful and pleasurable existence that it was a positive act of virtue to eat it . |
| 15 | Reaching the car , Vitor lunged forward to release the young man and lift him free , but the chassis had twisted . |
| 16 | er if it was the chassis had gone , I do n't feel very happy at all |
| 17 | His car was an extraordinary contraption , an ancient Ford truck from which some amateur carpenter ( or maybe the ship 's chandler ? ) had stripped off a ten-hundredweight body , and on the chassis had erected a kind of ambulance — with a stretcher bed in it and one chair firmly screwed to the floorboards . |
| 18 | The chassis has mixed abilities , too . |
| 19 | The slow dance was quickening , swirling them back and back through the darkening woods and stabbing gorse of memory to the sheep trying to escape the cold night and , beyond that , to the ways in which each of them , Forest girl and Forest boy , had first joined body with another . |
| 20 | The sheep seemed to have thinned out . |
| 21 | the sheep had snagged her horn on , days before |
| 22 | The sheep had huddled together to keep warm and as the drifts covered them the weaker animals were trampled and crushed beneath the stronger sheep that were struggling for air . |
| 23 | The sheep had gone strangely quiet and there was a queer thundering noise that he 'd never heard before . |
| 24 | He noticed a broken gate , and felt sure the sheep had gone through it . |
| 25 | ‘ After I 'd fed the hens , I could n't get out — the sheep had penned me in . |
| 26 | and all the sheep had died and |
| 27 | But the sheep had left its droppings in Flaubert 's memory as well . |
| 28 | In the rain , Elisabeth was alone — apart from the sheep lent to crop the grass . |
| 29 | ‘ You can appreciate , Brother , how the sheep like to gossip about their shepherd . ’ |
| 30 | The sheep has stopped crying . |