Example sentences of "[subord] [n mass] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A SNOWSTORM of money threw a city street into chaos yesterday when more than £150,000 fell off the back of an armoured car . |
| 2 | Ticket sales for this year 's Ryedale Festival have got off to a record start with more than £16,000 netted in the first three weeks and some events are already sold out , says director Geoffrey Emmerson . |
| 3 | The night before the wedding , they went out to all their favourite haunts — 1997 , Rick 's Café , the Go-Down — and ended up at two in the morning getting out of a taxi in Wan Chai , the neon blazing in the hot night , dark-eyed Chinese girls in brightly lit doorways , American sailors talking to them while people slept on the pavements and steaming noodles were served at three dollars a bowl at the poor-man 's lean-to restaurant . |
| 4 | The discovery was made at 11.30am after staff arrived at the pub and found they could not get in . |
| 5 | When Roe won for the first time at the Catalan Open in 1989 , it was predicted that he would become a regular winner on Tour . |
| 6 | As people went to the polls in the Serb-held city of Banja Luka in northern Bosnia , bulldozers cleared away the remains of two 16th-century mosques blown up the previous week . |
| 7 | For a moment she lost her mother in the crowd of horses and riders and foot followers , as people jostled for the best position , or to ride alongside their fancy . |
| 8 | The numbers swelled later as people streamed to the Neumarkt square after work to hear the Chancellor speaking in front of the church ruins . |
| 9 | Picture to yourself the furore which they will make in the world when people read on the title-page that they have been composed by a seven-year-old child ; and when the sceptics are challenged to test him , as he already has been , imagine the sensation when he asks someone to write down a minuet or some tune or other and then immediately and without touching the clavier writes in the bass and , if it is wanted , the second violin part … every day God performs fresh miracles through this child . |
| 10 | The snow sparkled in the sunshine outside the window and nobody really minded much when people came into the room and said ‘ Happy Christmas ’ . |
| 11 | When people came to the doors they stood on the step talking and looking over at our side of the street . |
| 12 | The contribution of the Coca-Cola Company is to be mentioned when works restored in the new laboratory are reproduced . |