Example sentences of "[prep] [n mass] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although overt proclamations of the need to maintain English as a " manly " educational pursuit by no means disappeared during the inter-war period , the pages of the Review reveal few of the defensive and often hysterical avowals of the discipline 's " manliness " that had been characteristic of the earlier period . |
| 2 | William and Joe and their entire consignment of cod vanished in the desire to please Araminta . |
| 3 | A brace of partridge whirred into the air . |
| 4 | Earlier Mr Garber told the tribunal : ‘ If a male member of staff belonged to the Chippendales and brought in photos I would have done the same . ’ |
| 5 | The infamous Chilean case , in May 1960 , began with an earthquake deep in the subduction zone between the Nazca and the South American Plates : scores of people died near the town of Puerto Montt . |
| 6 | I think a lot of people died in the making of those weapons , before they ever got launched and blew up half of London . ’ |
| 7 | Knots of people scurried in the snowy rain . |
| 8 | When the congregation of the Lutheran Church gathered to hear the Word of God expounded , they expected to hear it expounded fully , and the Pastor of Tappersdorf was ready to oblige , not merely comparing the German text for the day — a reference to the doings of an obscure Old Testament prophet — with the original Hebrew , and giving a learned half-hour to an explanation of the circumstances in which the prophet lived , suffered , and prophesied , a time in which it seemed a small group of people struggled for the truth and searched for God under the shadow of huge decadent empires to the East — and the West , but he , the Pastor , was perfectly willing to apply the prophet 's message to the present day — and to present-day socialist Germany , at that . |
| 9 | Thousands of people crowded into the streets during the day , converging on the government offices to demonstrate support for Koffigoh . |
| 10 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 11 | Now , a lot of people got to the one month happily , the thirty nine , but only fifteen out of these thirty nine made it to six months . |
| 12 | A couple of people got into the lift as he was riding down . |
| 13 | It , it 's fairly effective ; seventy per cent of people exposed to the virus who have been vaccinated , get no attack at all , and thirty per cent get a much milder attack than , than they would have expected . |
| 14 | I arrived just after one of the more serious rounds , when thousands of people took to the streets to burn and loot . |
| 15 | Although an indefinite curfew was reimposed in Srinagar after the assassination , thousands of people took to the streets as Farooq 's body was carried from the hospital to which it had been taken to his home . |
| 16 | Ershad 's resignation announcement was greeted with scenes of wild jubilation in Dhaka where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in celebration . |
| 17 | Hundreds of people took to the water over the weekend to recreate ancient and strange boat races . |
| 18 | The protesters , also angered by cheap imports from eastern Europe and South America , ransacked sheds owned by a merchant they said dealt in British fish and hundreds of people took to the streets of Concarneau and neighbouring ports to show their support . |
| 19 | ‘ A lot of people fell around the place laughing when they heard about the middle-aged poet bit , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Thousands of people stood by the river to watch it . |
| 21 | On March 18 , hundreds of people marched through the streets of Tottenham , to mark the third anniversary of the false convictions of Winston Silicott , Enghin Raghip and Mark Braithwaite , for the murder of PC Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm Uprising in October 1985 . |
| 22 | Thousands of people flocked to the country 's newest prison over the weekend for a rare opportunity to see inside . |
| 23 | People sat at all the tables in the bar , and some tables , there was like two lots of people sat around the same table , sharing a table . |
| 24 | He has cut public transport funding and cut in the number of people employed in the public transport service . |
| 25 | It 's very difficult for Jet to do anything about it because the situation is that Jet is bound by the statutes of the Jet joint undertaking and this is a legal document setting down the conditions under which we work , which has been agreed by governments and the council of ministers , and essentially the situation is that there are two types of people employed in the Jet team . |
| 26 | erm when Queenie talks about the increase in number of people employed by the City Council you can not deliver more services with fewer people . |
| 27 | Thirty five percent of people supported by the D S S , they are assuming will , will not be there at the end of the first year . |
| 28 | And the swarm of people flowed down the path , stumbling on stones where a burn ran in winter or after thunderstorms , between the silvery wands of rowans with their clusters of blood-drops and the quivering tapestry of the alders , down into the Tay which ran from the west like molten iron , too flashing bright to look at , and over the Tay , wet to the waist ; the girls and boys who had not gone home were prancing and shrieking when they fell full length . |
| 29 | It was part of a wider agricultural system with sheep pastured on the rich meadow grass then walked to be folded on fallow arable areas overnight , where their dung helped to maintain fertility on the thin chalkland soils . |
| 30 | Jean , 61 , discovered the other life of the man who came home for his supper every night when a debt summons for £6,800 arrived on the day of his funeral . |