Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [noun] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humpbacks , sperms and rorquals formed the basis of an extensive antarctic whaling industry , which began in 1904 at a single whaling station on South Georgia and expanded enormously over the next three decades , making use of both shore stations and pelagic fleets . |
| 2 | Adam had Hilbert 's old golf-bag stuck between his legs and Rufus guessed the gun was inside it . |
| 3 | Fans and reviewers enjoyed the raw edge and revelled in the energy and melody thrown out of the guitar crashing mayhem . |
| 4 | The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said the proposals were still only at discussion stage . |
| 5 | In the ensuing retaliatory offensive , the first in southern Croatia , jet fighters and gunboats attacked the industrial Adriatic port of Ploce on Sept. 15 , where Croatians had seized thousands of weapons from a naval base , and bombed the rail link between inland Croatia and the coast . |
| 6 | When driving at speed , the engineers noted that headwinds and crosswinds caused the blades to lift off the windscreen . |
| 7 | Most media organizations and journalists accepted the argument that certain restrictions were necessary for security reasons , but some , in particular US journalists , expressed concern that the ground rules would be used to prevent coverage showing the horrors of battle . |
| 8 | ALEX Taylor , a recording artist whose brothers and sisters included the musicians James , Livingston and Kate Taylor , has died after a heart attack . |
| 9 | He looked into her rather desperate eyes and Maggie ran the tip of her tongue anxiously over her lips . |
| 10 | Werewolf looked him in the eyes and Waters thought the better of it , saying weakly : ‘ Go . ’ |
| 11 | The frequency with which campaigns were organized in the 1340s , 1350s and 1370s and the need to provide substantial forces for the defence of English-held castles and towns encouraged the nobility to maintain permanent forces which might be augmented by the use of sub-contractors when necessary . |
| 12 | All the seers and prophets saw the world as worthless . |
| 13 | Following the conclusion of the agreement on the withdrawal of all 73,500 Soviet troops from Czechoslovakia in February [ see p. 37258 ] , the first units and equipment left the country on March 2 . |
| 14 | Three thousand years later English traders and soldiers repaid the debt , and brought fresh borrowings back . |
| 15 | Diplomatic missions were received and sent from time to time , and during the sixteenth century Japanese traders and pirates dominated the seas of Southeast Asia , but both channels of contact virtually ceased in the seclusion period . |
| 16 | Scores of shoppers and traders watched the fight spill onto the road stopping traffic . |
| 17 | Abruptly as with all cities and their tight schedules the street below was jammed with cars and Maxim assumed the coffee shop on the ground floor would be open . |
| 18 | Defeats are brought about out of such missed opportunities and Sarah paid the cost dearly , eventually going down 7–5 6–2 . |
| 19 | Melossi discusses the ‘ roaring twenties ’ and notes that ‘ an attitude of leniency , indulgence and experimentation with newer methods and reforms permeated the whole society ’ . |
| 20 | Whatever influence Le Fanu 's works may have had on Stoker , the young Dublin boy must have known that in the prevalent Celtic legends the graves open all over the Irish countyside on All Souls ’ Night and the dead walk across the fields — and Irving 's performances and demeanour sealed the future of his fictional imagination . |
| 21 | New words and phrases entered the language of education : open plan buildings no longer had classrooms , they had home bases or teaching areas ; the maths bay became a resource area ; teachers worked in teams ; the timetable was replaced by a continually renegotiable programme ; staff rooms were regarded as places of retreat but parents ' rooms were essential . |
| 22 | Paramedics and firecrews lowered the men sixty feet to safety . |
| 23 | It was here that the stables and offices became the ‘ Spinnery ’ for spinning and weaving and by 1909 the large workshops employed as many as 60 to 100 part-time workers . |
| 24 | Rugs and curtains divided the pits and caves below . |
| 25 | Although there was no moon to be seen it was far from totally dark ; the sea vas dimly luminescent while shapes and shadows defined the land . |
| 26 | Elliott 's school , together with one or two other notable exceptions , continued to teach by the combined system but , after 1880 , the bulk of British schools and teachers adopted the oral method in accordance with the resolutions of the Milan Conference , which had received worldwide publicity . |
| 27 | And shall there insert every persons name that shall be wedded christened or buryded And for the sauff ( safe ) kepinge the same boke the parish shale bonde to provide of these comen charges one sure coffer with twoo lockes and keys where of the one to remayne with you and the other with the said wardens , wherein the said boke shalbe laide upp Which boke ye shall every Sonday take furthe and in the presence of the said wardens or one of them write and record in the same all the weddinges , christenyngs and buryenges made the hole weke before , And that done to lay upp the boke in the said coffer as afore . |
| 28 | The news of the death of their leader was concealed from the Scots and Sinclair hoisted the Douglas banner and drove the English from the field . |
| 29 | Even before this time , the cost of war was beginning to sap enthusiasm for it : loans on wool and in wool , accompanied by embargoes and dubious credit arrangements , were testing the patience and loyalty of more than the merchants who assented to these measures ; purveyances , now being collected with a frequency and ruthlessness to match the 1290s , were provoking deep unrest in wide sections of the community , lay and clerical ; efforts to muster arrays for defence against the Scots and French antagonized the clergy when the requests for support were directed to diocesan , instead of provincial , synods . |
| 30 | His mouth brushed her lips and Robyn felt the strength of his arms as he scooped her up and carried her through the doorway . |