Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The AAA tried during the winter months to bring an end to the hostility between Frank Dick and me . |
| 32 | Moonshine on the holly leaves showed the way she twitched and jerked as the blackthorn spines probed deeper into the soft moss of her womb . |
| 33 | As she headed through the basement corridors that would lead her to the stairs and the stage door and thence to the waiting Joe Lucas , Josie 's thoughts barely touched on the subject of dying at all . |
| 34 | The group escaped in a car and the killings occurred as the border police tried to stop it . |
| 35 | He knew the spectacular bores only occurred during the equinox periods , February , March , April , and August , September , October . |
| 36 | Always immaculately dressed , he was remembered for his invariable courtesy and charm as he moved through the hotel bars and restaurants of cosmopolitan wartime Cairo . |
| 37 | General Norman Schwarzkopf rose through the army ranks on his feet , as an infantryman . |
| 38 | With my cousin Emka , I wandered through the oak woods gathering wild flowers — the cyclamens in which the Kras is so abundant at that time of year . |
| 39 | The wind still howled through the chimney pots and rattled through the cracks of the window frames . |
| 40 | With this intention firmly planted in her mind , she headed for the back stairs leading down into the kitchens . |
| 41 | This was obviously anathema to Ricardou , in particular , and a fairly acrimonious exchange erupted during the conference sessions surrounding this question of referentiality . |
| 42 | Magee stood his ground a moment longer , then headed towards the stone steps . |
| 43 | Anna moved towards the bus steps and saw the driver looking behind him down the length of the bus , waiting . |
| 44 | Actual allocations to regions would gradually be adjusted over several years so that they moved towards the target allocations . |
| 45 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 46 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 47 | It broke against the rock in front of the boathouse , and white water crashed against the boathouse doors . |
| 48 | Patrick peered under the dish covers . |
| 49 | In its annual report , published in November , Lautro weighed into the life offices , complaining that the unexpectedly high costs of policing their activities had dented its finances , and beefing that members had not taken the task of compliance seriously . |
| 50 | Erm , as I mentioned with the group visitors we 've started up a branch action group fo specifically focused on the sort of branch issues . |
| 51 | They heard the diesel engine , the quick rattle of the wheels on rails and then the caterpillar of carriages that rose above the stone walls , the small windows flashing in the sun as they were quickly drawn across their view and gone . |
| 52 | It rose above the animal grunts of Dobson , the curses of the yobs , the panting of McEllhoney and hung — long , howling and furious in the night . |
| 53 | Thank you very much erm I have one last question on this item er that I 've now lost oh yes it was a erm Mr Perry , you mentioned under the logistics savings that were possible er the potential cut back in R A F bases . |
| 54 | He stopped on the embankment , shaking with cold and shock , to note the spot , then fled along the tractor paths , the dog running with him , to the stables where the ten o'clock children 's ride was in its closing stages . |
| 55 | But Joannides lost time to Yorkshire driver Brian Bell when the route moved onto the gravel roads . |
| 56 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 57 | As the respondents were already in possession when they entered into the solus agreements , he concluded that the agreements were within the doctrine of restraint of trade . |
| 58 | Take off the heat again , and beat in the egg yolks . |
| 59 | Put the cornflour into a bowl , blend with a little of the milk , beat in the egg yolks , then the sugar and the rest of the milk . |
| 60 | His method makes tomatoes taste so startlingly unlike any other dish of cooked tomatoes that any restaurateur who put it on his menu would , in all probability , soon find it listed in the guide books as a regional speciality . |