Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the youngster 's goldfish perished in the blaze at his home in Saltaire , near Bradford . |
| 2 | On the night of 13 March the U.852 sank a steamer called the Peleus and then cruised round the area shining a searchlight on wreckage and survivors while the ship 's first lieutenant , doctor and engineer officer with two ratings picked up guns and grenades and by indiscriminate firing endeavoured to destroy all traces of the sinking before the patrolling aircraft arrived in the morning . |
| 3 | William and Joe and their entire consignment of cod vanished in the desire to please Araminta . |
| 4 | The negotiations for the purchase of the aircraft culminated in the offices of the London lawyers , Freshfields , with representatives of five companies and some six different law firms clustered around a table in the conference room . |
| 5 | Seconds later sunlight flashed on metal and the aircraft appeared in the skies above them . |
| 6 | This pattern was worn until 1959 when a merger with The Somerset Light Infantry resulted in The Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry being established ; since then the plain white metal bugle-horn of the light infantry has been worn . |
| 7 | This is when the cavalry arrived in the form of the Scottish Office Education Department 's sponsored grant scheme . |
| 8 | Luminous fish lived in the salt water . |
| 9 | In the Grand Canyon , the oldest worm trails were burrowed through the mud in the second week of November and the first fish appeared in the limestone seas a week later . |
| 10 | A fish jumped in the water . |
| 11 | Ticket sales for this year 's Ryedale Festival have got off to a record start with more than £16,000 netted in the first three weeks and some events are already sold out , says director Geoffrey Emmerson . |
| 12 | Few people lived in the north the whole time and in the south a large proportion of the permanent residents were slaves . |
| 13 | More than 125 people lived in the two blocks of flats , the Press Trust of India reported . |
| 14 | Combining life-histories with the use of personal documents such as letters and diaries can show how ordinary people lived in the past ( Plummer 1982 ) . |
| 15 | Organic remains provide much evidence as to how people lived in the past . |
| 16 | How many people lived in the house ? |
| 17 | Three people lived in the house — a beautiful girl , an old man , and a young man . |
| 18 | Some 500,000,000 people lived in the 42 LDCs ( 110,000,000 of them in Bangladesh ) , where population growth averaged 2.6 per cent . |
| 19 | As in most provincial towns of the time , the wealthiest families lived in the central area and the poorest people lived in the thickly-populated outskirts . |
| 20 | In 1801 a mere twenty-five people lived in the four houses that comprised the settlement of Middlesborough and thirty years later the population stood at only 154 . |
| 21 | By 1841 , when 1,079 people lived in the village , 107 men and boys and just 3 females worked at the trade . |
| 22 | Whatever the position in remoter times , when most people lived in the country , the urbanisation of England in the nineteenth century meant , among other things , that farmland adjacent to what were once small towns became the target of urban development . |
| 23 | The pattern today includes most of the features which people created in the past . |
| 24 | Pie day had dawned bright and clear but tons of straw and cinders had to be hastily brought in as vehicles and people sank in the mud caused by the torrential rain of the past few days . |
| 25 | People came in the summer to walk and to sail and , if development plans succeeded and the roads could be kept clear , they 'd soon be coming in the winter to ski . |
| 26 | After the treatment her hair shone like burnished copper from scalp to tip , such a beautiful shade of red that people turned in the street to stare as she passed by . |
| 27 | Of course I was not saying I see people elbowed in the face 200 times a week . |
| 28 | How many people worked in the kitchen ? |
| 29 | and the people worked in the big hotels |
| 30 | He has cut public transport funding and cut in the number of people employed in the public transport service . |