Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In another case , headlined as ‘ The Alleged Hooligan Tragedy ’ , a man died after a street-fight and it was reported that on arrival at hospital he had made a statement to the effect that , ‘ I got my injuries in the Borough through being kicked to death by Hooligans . ’ |
| 2 | I stopped a hundred yards down the road and checked my bearings in the paperback A-Z I keep taped behind the sun visor . |
| 3 | While walking the Pennine Way I cooled my feet in the beck before continuing south to Airton and Gargrave . |
| 4 | ‘ I have met the Luciferi , ’ I replied , and heard Madame Ralemberg moan as I briefly described my assailants in the alleyway and the appearance of my mysterious protectors . |
| 5 | I eventually found my parents in the sponsor 's tent in a huddle with Jack and his delightful wife , Jenny . |
| 6 | It was noted that most of the ministers from Chatichai 's own Chart Thai party retained their posts in the August reshuffle . |
| 7 | Not , however , when Charlotte sat opposite him in an eerily empty airport cafe and described her experiences in the United States while gazing at him with an expression implying what he most wanted to believe : that she trusted him unreservedly . |
| 8 | But he also made use of tunes from bourgeois sources — and transformed their meanings in the process . |
| 9 | She moved her toes in the orange dust at the edge of the road . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't laughed so much since Grandma caught her tits in the mangle , ’ was the verdict of them all . |
| 11 | The security situation within Kashmir deteriorated during the latter half of 1989 as militant groups pursued their aims in the face of a state government unable to give any effective response . |
| 12 | In the early stages of the war for the Caucasus the Russians concentrated their resources in the west . |
| 13 | Kelly hooked her thumbs in the tops of her pants . |
| 14 | Brutus Leitdorf , the Count of Averland , ordered the retreat over the great bridge and rallied his troops in the western half of the city . |
| 15 | Fleming reported his experiments in the Journal of Horticulture , and published Spring and Winter Flower Gardening in 1864 ( 2nd edn. , 1870 ) . |
| 16 | His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition . |
| 17 | He reviewed his notes in the light of what Maeve had said , and began to follow it through . |
| 18 | The old master of the House of Commons , despite his quiet style , never found his feet in the House of Lords . |
| 19 | with honours in chemistry in 1869 , then pursued his studies in the natural sciences at St Bartholomew 's Hospital , obtaining his D.Sc . |
| 20 | Therefore , after due consideration , the Council sold their powers in the Mitcham Light Railways to the British Electric Traction Co. for £1,000 on 15 January 1902 . |
| 21 | The mining did not go ahead and Burnett and Hallamshire sold their interests in the area to BP Coal . |
| 22 | Madame Gebrec flung her arms in the air . |
| 23 | Individualism was well established as one of the cardinal virtues of Western civilization when Japan reopened her doors in the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | I would have loved to have stayed in her Boathouse despite the eight inch snail with head and horns buried in a roll of butter in the larder in the morning and his relatives ‘ who had a provoking way of paying nocturnal visits , and wandered between the wooden walls and the loosely fixed paper that decked the walls … ’ ; the family of mice and the ‘ sagacious hen ’ that laid her eggs in the corner of the hole in the wall designated as a cupboard . |
| 25 | Pitching their eighty-nine lodges on the river 's eastern bank , the people grazed their ponies in the westerly hills and cut new lodge poles which were to be dragged to the Crow country when seasoned . |
| 26 | Even councils which modernised their trams in the 1930s , such as Glasgow and Leeds , abandoned them in the 1950s . |
| 27 | They laid their eggs in the central pool . |
| 28 | Until the 1980s , the majority of nationalist conservative and ultra-right elements in West Germany made their homes in the right wings of the mainstream conservative parties , the CDU and its Bavarian sister-party , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) . |
| 29 | If you have a literary bent , there is a lot that will appeal to you here ; Wordsworth , Ruskin and Beatrix Potter all made their homes in the vicinity and today these ‘ shrines ’ are open to the public . |
| 30 | The piano made its patterns in the air . |