Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drivers piled them into cars and drove off to return shortly for another load . |
| 2 | Top designers said it with flowers this spring : a floral jungle by Bill Blass ( above ) ; black and floral trousers by Krizia ( above left ) ; a splash of colour from Chanel ( far left ) and Ungaro 's tropical sarong-style fantasy ( left ) . |
| 3 | He made her feel incredibly feminine ; the merest touch of his fingers transported her to ecstasies she had never before experienced . |
| 4 | Red Indians used it for nappies , and J&J might just follow in their tracks — encouraging us to flush the bog down the bog , as it were ? |
| 5 | My parents loved me without conditions , so they and all the stories told me ; I seek a lover who will do the same . |
| 6 | Grooms and ostlers furnished us with horses for our journey . |
| 7 | The Spender is ‘ My parents kept me from children who were rough ’ : |
| 8 | The black mouths of the peat haggs reminded him of stories about ghosts and murders . |
| 9 | A HOSPITAL has sounded a safety alert over the packaging of oils used in ‘ alternative ’ medicine after two youngsters drank them from bottles . |
| 10 | Our travels led us to places as far apart as Sanderstown , San Francisco , New York , and London — all in search of an ‘ insurance ’ that would guarantee for us peace and tranquillity on Koraloona , the most beautiful island of the whole beautiful Moto Varu archipelago . |
| 11 | Like the politics of the miners which seamed through the talk of his brothers , never as vivid as the ‘ stories ’ but always there , those early films provided him with examples of acting which he must have absorbed willy-nilly . |
| 12 | Gourmets lured them to piles of turnips , then shot at them with duck-guns . |
| 13 | Contemporary reviewers welcomed it in terms such as these : ‘ A work of this description is truly a national work ’ ; ‘ A work of unprecedented compass , a work which is a library in itself , a work which … affords … a first introductory key to every kind of human knowledge ’ . |
| 14 | When the Arab armies of Amr ibn el-As arrived in Egypt in the seventh century , Egyptian Christians welcomed them as deliverers from Byzantine tyranny . |
| 15 | His fondness for practical jokes made him on occasions a " tormenting tease " , according to John Hayward , and he never lost his " satirical wit " . |
| 16 | Faced with a loss of income , General Seri 's officers attacked him in leaflets and graffiti . |
| 17 | But Ken 's experience in working with wood , coupled to a keen eye for design , was soon put to good use when customers asked him for ideas on pond layout , particularly those with a Japanese flavour . |
| 18 | The Kwanggu prints moved me to tears , and to wish that all the people who did n't vote were made to view these simple but powerful images . |
| 19 | His explorations took him into deserts and marshes . |
| 20 | while their owners circled them in rowboats |
| 21 | A lot of things reminded me of pricks when I was sixteen . |
| 22 | Pigeons found sheltered ledges , dogs that were normally unconcerned snarled as their owners tugged them on leashes . |
| 23 | Most of these reserves were held in the Eurodollar market , which meant that rather than deposit them in New York the central banks of the oil producers deposited them in banks outside the United States . |
| 24 | When Mint and Boxed collapsed , many of Levitt 's rich and powerful contacts deserted him in droves . |
| 25 | Maturin 's secret missions and Aubrey 's orders involved them in dangers very often due to the malice or ambition of individuals rather than to the fortunes of war . |
| 26 | So much so that in America the Black Panthers studied it for tips on guerrilla tactics ! |
| 27 | Their attackers hacked them to pieces with hundreds of blows from a 3ft panga sugar cane knife and a foot-long bush knife . |
| 28 | Some sympathetic mothers covered it with bandages and bulging dressings and I was driven to the doctors ' where I was given a more impressive bandage , leaving my finger looking the size of a small banana . |
| 29 | His work with The Miracles kept him in hits until 1972 , when he finally went solo and delivered the gorgeous Smokey , which might have promised more than it delivered but which ultimately — on ‘ Baby Come Close ’ , ‘ Just My Soul Responding ’ and the personal protest of ‘ Holly ’ — established him as the great single Romeo of modern soul . |
| 30 | Windows overlooked it from Studios ‘ B ’ and ‘ C ’ and the Studio ‘ A ’ control room . |