Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the copyists sold the originals to Wildenstein 's for $665,000 and decamped with the proceeds , Wallis got to hear of it and had to buy back the pictures . |
| 2 | Our next drafts eliminated the test data and focused on the conclusions . |
| 3 | When he was clear of the goat herds and the sheep that grazed around the village , he moved down to the river that was a tributary of the distant Tigris . |
| 4 | David Buckley , 29 , of Speke , Merseyside , was giving a friend a lift when his car clipped the kerb , somersaulted 15ft and smashed through a lamp-post . |
| 5 | Cathy Gunn 's Medeva jumped £1 to nearly £3 but sagged at the close . |
| 6 | Jack fired into the air and the dog left off chasing the sheep and ran towards the wood . |
| 7 | He was a bright boy with a gift for mathematics , and was sent to Gresham College to study engineering , but soon after the outbreak of war in 1914 joined the Royal Flying Corps and served as a flight-lieutenant in No. 73 Squadron in France . |
| 8 | But a bungled , unlawful business deal has so far cost them £5.3m and led to the sacking of all the BRDC 's 12 directors . |
| 9 | Erm and the difference in appraisal between the groups of people that knew about the speaker before and those that did n't know anything , they say it is important to the similarity attraction . |
| 10 | Oh research people that came to the door |
| 11 | All people that went to the Salvation Army in they they always used to have their treat there , other church always used to go to Felixstowe , that used to cost us ninepence to go to Felixstowe on the train . |
| 12 | Aye everything was gi really fantastic the people that helped the people that gave to the strike , out of this world I know the help they had was really fantastic . |
| 13 | WABI was written by people that worked at the BIOS house Phoenix Technologies Ltd and later at Integrated Technologies Inc . |
| 14 | Over a period of eight years , Reagan visited 135 plants in more than forty states , met 250,000 people and stood before a microphone for an estimated 250,000 minutes . |
| 15 | The first phase of the project was undertaken by two BGS staff and led to the publication in 1990 of a systematic inventory of the industrial minerals of the country . |
| 16 | They were causing distress to the firm 's staff and amounted to a nuisance . |
| 17 | In doing so he expressed thanks also to CSD staff and pointed to the construction work currently under way on the new European Technology Centre at Royston as a demonstration of our showing confidence in the future and JM 's determined intention to maintain leadership . |
| 18 | Probes were labelled with [ 32 P ] dCTP and added to the filter in 5xSSPE ( 1xSSPE : 0.15M NaCl , 0.01M NaH 2 PO 4 . |
| 19 | From 1862 , Wolverton lost its independence as a locomotive works and came under the direction of Ramsbottom at Crewe . |
| 20 | Humphrey did not confine his activities solely to the steel works and walked across the fields he had known during his earthly days . |
| 21 | Elliott called Fort Shafter at 0706hrs and passed on the information to the duty officer , Lt Tyler . |
| 22 | The talk was general , candlelit faces leaned across the table and the hands which peeled the fruit or fidgeted with the glasses were as individual as the faces . |
| 23 | The discussion groups ( Appendix II , section 5 ) show how easily a change for the worse in someone 's circumstances can lead to debt troubles : the man in hospital after an accident at work , who then had a breakdown , while overdue credit instalments mounted up to over £100 and led to a court summons ; the family who owed £30 a week on furniture and carpet instalments for their new flat — eventually taken to court after a series of lost jobs ; or ( Appendix III ) the previously secure young widow whose money troubles started when her husband died — although an understanding bank wrote off the outstanding balance on a car loan , a furniture firm refused to accept the reduced instalments which were all that she could afford . |
| 24 | Fat grey pigeons and speckled thrushes bent the branches of the elderberries in the autumn , pecked at the fruit and flapped into the sky when frightened by my cat . |
| 25 | The friar walked back up to the Poultry and knocked on the coroner 's door . |