Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I crept back the few yards to the way marked path and walked on down the track . |
| 2 | Well du when the war broke out the all bakers up to the age of twenty seven was reserved . |
| 3 | Orwell has left us with a graphic description of a typical reader , the elderly lady who always took out the same books , year-in year-out — a thing not possible incidentally in today 's rapid-turnover public libraries — with the word , ‘ I do love a drop of Dell ! ’ referring to the popular writer Ethel M. Dell . |
| 4 | They also played the same games in the playground , and when a group had the same work in class , everybody would whisper or signal the answer to everyone else , + everyone put down the same things , whether right or wrong ! |
| 5 | The crew , moving rapidly yet almost soundlessly , carried out the few jobs required to convert the land vehicle to a boat , and within seconds the rigs slid rapidly into the dark water and powered away to swing out their ramps and couple together in twos and threes . |
| 6 | The WI were magnificent and provided thousands of lunches ; the Red Cross picked up the few casualties and stragglers ; and children along the route played welcome hosepipes on the passing riders . |
| 7 | Iskandara picked up the few envelopes and looked at them disinterestedly . |