Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the continents grew they gleaned more of the carbon from the oceans and atmosphere . |
| 2 | ‘ But all the experts told us to stay at Bart 's . |
| 3 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 4 | From the moment Galwey won his first international cap against Namibia two years ago the experts claimed he was too short for an international lock forward , too slow to be an effective No 8 . |
| 5 | The crowds made it painfully obvious who was the new star of the show the Princess of Wales . |
| 6 | This was the theme tune at last month 's revolutionary rallies , where the crowds sang it with great gusto and clapped to the jaunty rhythm of its concluding lines . |
| 7 | The crowds loved him and he wanted to be rewarded accordingly . |
| 8 | ‘ One of the labourers recognised him . |
| 9 | It was always farming circulars for her father , copies of the newspaper to which he occasionally contributed articles on sheep , seldom anything for her mother beyond invitations the senders knew they were safe from her accepting , or appeals for money from charities , the Scottish Women 's Institute , funds to save a painting for the Glasgow Art Gallery . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ I was prepared to set aside time at a future meeting for full discussion , but the clubs felt they did n't want to even talk about the issue any further . |
| 11 | As an 11-handicapper who does not play quite as often as she would like , I found the clubs gave me more consistency and greater ‘ feel ’ . |
| 12 | The clubs helped them recruit supporters . ’ |
| 13 | We 'll be going now , ’ the mallards told her . |
| 14 | The mantri looked it up and down from the doorway without saying a word . |
| 15 | It probably was n't practical to rig up a short tape belay and , in any case , the climbers felt they were down , with the climbing virtually finished . |
| 16 | A young artist , the mines fascinated him . |
| 17 | When the price of graphite fell in 1900 and the mines closed they returned to their villages ; one result was an increase in the number of cases of cattle stealing in the Western and Southern Provinces of fifty-six per cent over 1899 . |
| 18 | The landlord , who felt that the explanation — indeed , to all intents and purposes , the apology — he had made for his wife was more than enough to compensate for any gentlemanly inconvenience , was about to get back to his work in the fields when his visitor 's too casually direct questions about the mines charged him to stay . |
| 19 | Although his chains still held him tight , the slavers grabbed him and burnt him with searing irons . |
| 20 | ‘ On a personal note , in 1991 when the Board nominated me and the shareholders elected me to the chairmanship , I indicated that I would serve in this capacity for two years and oversee the rationalisation and turnaround of the Waterford and Wedgwood businesses . |
| 21 | The surveyors said they really did see , hear and feel all the exhilarating sensations of flying . |
| 22 | They were soon relegated to the emigrants ' cars , and when even the emigrants complained they were forced to travel on baggage wagons or on the boarding steps . |
| 23 | Whenever she could afford it Nina tried to buy one of his drawings , but most of the artists thought he was simply a nuisance and told her she was wasting her money . |
| 24 | Sir William Hamilton paid the bills ( as the creditors knew he would ) , and in his will he left her £300 and an annuity of £800 , which should have enabled her to live comfortably though not perhaps ostentatiously . |
| 25 | Only Greenidge and Lloyd kept them afloat as Snow and Underwood bowled really well and the fielders backed them up . |
| 26 | The defenders said they had no weapons to counter artillery . |
| 27 | The deputies ordered him to do so by July . |
| 28 | But although the deputies said they clinched an agreement on the charter on Thursday morning it began to collapse when Lebanese leaders , including the Christian army commander , Michel Aoun , and the Druze leader , Walid Jumblatt , criticised it . |
| 29 | Everyone knows the Reds destroyed it . ’ |
| 30 | It was not surprising that the police and the courts saw him not as a threat , scarcely even as a nuisance , but an eccentric example of English political freedom . |