Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emelia Kanthack commented that she ‘ always approached my East End patients with my very best manners and extended the same little courteous considerations to them that I would have served towards a lady ’ . |
| 2 | Phoebe opened her eyes and saw the abstracted professional look in the doctor 's face ; attentive not to Phoebe but to the lump , to the breast itself . |
| 3 | The wind whisked past her ears , her stomach lurched ; she opened her eyes and saw the white , freckled child screaming , his mouth open like a great dark cave , clinging on to the side of the boat with his frail clean-scrubbed little hands . |
| 4 | She followed the direction of his eyes and saw the bloodied sheet . |
| 5 | Athelstan immediately closed his eyes and sniffed the sweet odour of fresh scrubbed parchment and vellum . |
| 6 | Slater narrowed his eyes and straightened the tartan cap on his head . |
| 7 | She closed her eyes and gripped the cold hand . |
| 8 | He closed his eyes and smelt the meadowy air , the scents of mown grass and wildflowers brought back a flood of happy childhood memories . |
| 9 | She narrowed her eyes and threw the cruel truth at him . |
| 10 | As they neared the Workshops , Fenella heard the continuous thrumming of the Looms and saw the pulsating red glow of the furnaces . |
| 11 | My back was to the wind which whistled coldly in the wire frame of my spectacles and cracked the loose folds of my robe . |
| 12 | This chapter has introduced some of the issues surrounding the propagation of error in GIS and described the preliminary application of a Monte Carlo approach to assessing their effects . |
| 13 | The Stock Markets shrugged off yesterday 's worries and staged the best rise for more than 5 weeks . |
| 14 | They squatted in the bushes and watched the doubled guards patrolling up and down . |
| 15 | Within minutes they had gone into the kitchen , donned overalls and caps and joined the tall girl at the counter who was coping with an admiring queue . |
| 16 | In 1964 he was voted European Footballer of the Year and in a long career with Scotland he won 55 caps and earned the interchangeable nicknames ‘ Denis The Menace ’ or simply ‘ The King ’ . |
| 17 | The FDA complied with the legislation regarding the registration of parties and submitted the necessary 3,000 signatures . |
| 18 | Left : Most boatyards had a signwriter who painted the boats in their company liveries and added the decorative touches . |
| 19 | Some of them , like some Karavas , seized available economic opportunities and joined the new élite . |
| 20 | The evidence reviewed in this chapter does not however demonstrate even in the earlier agitational aspects of the anti-slave trade campaign that antislavery took up radical methods and challenged the normal modes of bringing about change . |
| 21 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 22 | The reorganisation moves and the joint-venture announced between the regional jetliner business and Taiwan Aerospace Corporation have ‘ effectively stemmed the losses and secured the financial position ’ , he said . |
| 23 | Bodies like the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy — which represents local government finance officials — argued that the consultants had overstated the savings and understated the potential costs . |
| 24 | And then she gazed up at him , her hands gripping his shoulders and absorbed the incredible feeling of having him inside her . |
| 25 | Most days Jo headed straight for the nearest john and took the hideous contraption off as soon as she was alone , muttering , ‘ If you got it , flaunt it ! ’ as she threw back her shoulders and felt the liberated flesh bounce free . |
| 26 | She threw back her shoulders and swallowed the hard , hot lump in her throat . |
| 27 | The deputation told the story of the harassment of the Blacks over the months and emphasised the various indications that the government 's undercover organisations were responsible . |
| 28 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 29 | The survey monitored 1,100 Welsh homes and found the average level to be 20 becquerels per cubic metre , the same as the UK as a whole . |
| 30 | Each round of war and ‘ peace process ’ drew the superpowers into yet more sophisticated rearming of their clients and increased the tactical and strategic threats to the participants . |