Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His words were lost in the frightened screams of the women , the crying of terrified children , the loud cursing and swearing — and sometimes praying — of the men . |
| 2 | Her words were lost in the sound of grinding gears , and the car leaped away from the sidewalk , knocking Mrs Frizzell 's hat askew and leaving her mouthing furiously at nobody . |
| 3 | ’ But then he opened the door , and his words were lost in the wind . |
| 4 | His words were lost in the violent pounding from the east . |
| 5 | His words were lost in the sudden explosion which took the front off Police Headquarters . |
| 6 | Stok crossed his arms across his face and began to pull his shirt off , and his words were lost beneath the white cotton . |
| 7 | The words were written by the tubercular vicar of All Saints , Lower Brixham , the Rev H F Lyte ( 1793–1847 ) , during his last months of illness . |
| 8 | The brief period of time in which the words were presented to the subject in our experiment , however , limited the kinds of words that could be used as stimuli . |
| 9 | Precisely because the composition of phonolexical sets can not be specified on phonological grounds , it is difficult to find a principled way of specifying the lexical input to the variable ( u ) ; eventually eighteen words were assigned to the set simply on the basis of observation . |
| 10 | The fewest words were recalled with the random word order and the greatest number with correct word order . |
| 11 | The words were scrawled on the frontal of the marble high altar . |
| 12 | But since on this occasion the words were dictated to the child it is more likely to be the child 's efforts to repeat the sound to herself and to write down her idea of a phonic equivalent . |
| 13 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 14 | Words were exchanged between the comic and Holiday , said Mr McCartney . |
| 15 | Strong words were exchanged with the latter band by the organisers , who demanded a quick piece of historical rewriting to expunge this accidental slur on the workers ' state . |
| 16 | Robyn saw for the first time that Melissa was a little drunk ; her eyes had that bright , fixed look , and her words were pronounced with the extra care of someone who had consumed rather too much alcohol . |
| 17 | In section 265 , for example , terms such as ‘ domiciled , ’ ‘ personally present , ’ ‘ ordinarily resident , ’ have had attributed to them , both in the context of bankruptcy and in that of civil procedure generally , a wealth of refined construction which it is difficult to suppose Parliament did not intend equally to apply when those words were used in the Act of 1986 . |
| 18 | Ernest 's words were drowned in the call which went up from the ship , and the outburst of cheering from the Flamingo 's passengers . |
| 19 | The rest of the queen-dowager 's words were drowned by the prince 's whoops of joy — and the cardinal , kept waiting for over an hour , hearing the hullabaloo , exchanged relieved glances with his fellows . |
| 20 | Ranulf , nudging Maltote , leered at the pretty ladies in their fillets and low-waisted dresses ; sometimes his words were drowned by the clamour of the crowd and the mid-day peal of the bells of London tolling for prayers from their great stone-washed , stately towers . |
| 21 | As noted above , Aristo argued , by analogy with the way in which the words were interpreted in the case of a legacy of dowry and in stipulations on sale of an inheritance , and bearing in mind the testator 's intention , that the words should be taken to include non-pecuniary dispositions . |
| 22 | You made sure those words were learnt for the next day . |
| 23 | Words were spoken over the bread and wine . |
| 24 | When the words were spoken for the third time , however , the divorce was irrevocable . |
| 25 | Successors were appointed at the end of October 1989 to the heads of Italy 's two largest state enterprises , Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale ( IRI ) and Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi ( ENI ) . |
| 26 | In 1456 Djuradj Branković died , and his squabbling successors were pushed across the Danube when the Turks took Smederovo in 1459 . |
| 27 | The theoretical aspects were formulated in the mid-1940s and the first dates were published in December 1949 . |
| 28 | The indexing language was added to during the construction of the database as more aspects were suggested by the materials . |
| 29 | However , they thought that these aspects were outweighed by the loss of headquarters functions and their multipliers from Scotland , and concluded that UK mergers policy was blind to some of these issues . |
| 30 | Those guidelines were produced for the police national computer mark I. It is now almost five years since they were published . |