Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |
| 2 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 3 | As the riders passed they called out : high-pitched cries which startled the birds that nested in the tree-tops . |
| 4 | There was a profit of $2.1m in the Homeowners account which compared with a loss in the same period last year of $8.3m . |
| 5 | These included raising the age of consent to eighteen , abolishing the notorious ‘ escape clause ’ ( allowing male defendants in assault cases to claim they believed the girl to be over sixteen ) , extending the time limit for prosecutions and criminalizing incest and male importuning . |
| 6 | But Richard Walker had other ideas , with just two minutes to go he coughed up . |
| 7 | With only one hour and 30 minutes to go I squirted out a cheap-looking burning skull design , slapped on a logo and sent the damn thing off with only minutes to spare . |
| 8 | People were using any of a large range of software products to perform what appeared to be the same basic tasks . |
| 9 | This remark had haunted Khrushchev , who had several times explained he did not mean it literally , and finally got that famous goat . |
| 10 | Animal welfare groups want them outlawed all together . |
| 11 | They call themselves Rektum , and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage . |
| 12 | At the end of 1978 , when he realized the danger that Khomeini was inflicting on the Shah from France , Marenches say he tried to have him expelled from the country . |
| 13 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 14 | And these were the positive ones and , remember , they come from within the ‘ old age ’ field itself where , incidentally , two groups reported they had retirement ages for their own committees . |
| 15 | But the East Germans want it developed . |
| 16 | So he was operated on , and the vets found he had a misplaced colon , put it right and stitched him up . |
| 17 | Perhaps those artists mentioned who worked in several ways — like Hartley or Guston or Morris — will be shown in a manner that suggests some of the aesthetic connective tissue that is otherwise ignored , but if they are represented only by their signature work a great deal will be missing . |
| 18 | For the Germans say they DID make the offer . |
| 19 | Attempts to revive him failed and he was dead on arrival at hospital . |
| 20 | Attempts to revive him failed and he died later in hospital . |
| 21 | But it took 10 minutes to haul her out and attempts to revive her failed . |
| 22 | As the day of rehearsals approached I got my usual attack of the ‘ I 'll never do its ’ . |
| 23 | On a modest few hours climbing we had sampled two new crags and climbed fine routes — a melange of anxiety , adventure and delight set against a backdrop of a wild , lonely coastline . |
| 24 | Many of these ingredients were indeed present , but as the months passed I became increasingly aware that there was much more than just science at work here . |
| 25 | As the months passed he spent more and more time away on his growing shipping business . |
| 26 | When Nigel went into the Left Arts Review he found that a good review of Eleanor 's book was ready and waiting . |
| 27 | On the books front I thought Helen Fraser 's predictions the most interesting . |
| 28 | For a moment she relaxed against him , then as his words penetrated she saw a mental picture of those same arms encircling Dawn . |
| 29 | But red-faced valuers admitted they made a mistake when Mary , 41 , invited them to view it . |
| 30 | Round she went , mouth slightly parted , eyes seeing who knew what in that circle of lights running into a liquid line as the machine quickened ; in the faces , all one blur below her as she was swung out to them and back away from them again ; in the dark caverns of leaves away above in the trees which seemed so distant , so other , lit in strange patches by the wandering spotlights , strange shadows feeling their way over branches as the lighted islands in the gathering dark turned and twirled , swayed , shuddered , slowed and came to rest . |