Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the carnival the barrow was filled with vegetables and two wire half hoops straddled it from front to back and side to side , these were beautifully decorated with flowers by my sisters and the wheelbarrow really did look effective . |
| 2 | One of them got lost in the corridors and another dropped some important equipment into the sea . |
| 3 | Sometimes in the night , wakeful because the child had stirred , he would put out his hands and clasp the bars and long to shake this frail barrier that symbolized the unbridgeable gulf between them . |
| 4 | One of them asked another if he remembered how the Magistrate Sahib had tried to make them strengthen the embankments and this caused such merriment that one of the landowners almost fell into the water . |
| 5 | Ours are just figureheads and that shows more than ever in wartime . ’ |
| 6 | Tories and Labour decry each other 's failures to voters who seem to believe , against all experience , that success is their birthright , and that only political stupidity deprives them of it . |
| 7 | Our two days off duty every twelve days could now be spend with our families , flying either from Aberdeen or Edinburgh airports and this made all the difference to working in Scotland . |
| 8 | Blackpool now specialises in business conferences and both have many day trippers coming by car and coach . |