Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After going to his parents ' home at about 5am , Abram , who had earlier been out drinking in the nearby Valkaries pub , washed his blood stained trainers and dried them in the microwave oven , it was claimed . |
| 2 | She looked into his dark eyes and submerged herself in the bliss of being flattered . |
| 3 | First , many patients in hospital have taken overdoses or injured themselves in the past . |
| 4 | Often Minoan worshippers tore branches or boughs from a sacred tree and venerated them on altars or planted them in the sockets between sacral horns . |
| 5 | When Isobel had gone — dear , patient , wise Isobel whom she loved and to whom she was often so unreasonable — Anna ran water into the empty coffee mugs and stood them in the sink . |
| 6 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 7 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 8 | She tied up her sticks and wrapped them in the silk again . |
| 9 | He removed his jacket , trousers , shirt , tie and underclothes and studied himself in the mirror . |
| 10 | They had seen no tracks and sighted nothing in the land below them , which Ratagan said was unusual for deer were not uncommon here as well as hill foxes and hares . |
| 11 | We have closed our ears to his cries and left him in the shadows while we walked in the light . ’ |
| 12 | This boast suggests that the vase-painters were not just copying the innovations of great artists but felt themselves in the van of the movement , true pioneers . |
| 13 | And the big , one of the big things that affected us in the last few years was er Dallas . |
| 14 | Policy must of course be converted into practice ; in both these schools overall spending policy and staffing priorities were significant expressions of commitment by the heads , and this can only have strengthened the resolve of those members of staff who served on the library committees and immersed themselves in the day-to-day business of winning a place in the project . |
| 15 | He then grabbed all her feathers and threw them in the gutter before storming off in the direction of the Black Bull . |
| 16 | Only the young Swede and the attendant took a sympathetic interest and pointed helpfully as I gathered up the meatballs and deposited them in the ashtray . |
| 17 | Many escaped to Gibraltar , joined the Allied armies and distinguished themselves in the fight against Hitler . |
| 18 | Fedorov and his men had knocked him down , broken his glasses and kicked him in the ribs . |
| 19 | One spell had indeed leapt from the crackling pages and lodged itself in the dark recesses of his brain . |
| 20 | Then he went to bed , having checked the room for electronic bugs and found one in the base of the lamp . |
| 21 | All the tulips and roses he patiently drained and crushed , then sealed their exhumed corpses and took them in the paper bag to the store for money . |
| 22 | It was Friday morning , cold and clear after the night rain , and Annie brought Rachel down the stairs and settled her in the pram which was kept in the passageway beside the kitchen . |
| 23 | He added : ‘ I never struck him with my fists or kicked him in the face when I was in a standing position . ’ |
| 24 | Maggie scraped the radiant atoms off Hermione 's arms and juggled them in the air , but she was giggling too much and kept missing the rhythm . |
| 25 | It was on the evening of the fourth day that she raised her wings and flexed them in the sea-wind . |
| 26 | This three-track tape was recorded under the auspices of the GDR Studios in Darlington who seem to have rounded up the Divers and pointed them in the right direction . |
| 27 | The ethnic differences that emerged elsewhere in the USSR in the late 1980s were for the most part more traditional , almost ‘ tribal ’ in character , in that they sprang from antipathies between ethnic groups with different religious , linguistic and historical backgrounds and expressed themselves in the form of communal clashes rather than pressures for formal independence . |
| 28 | Whether this resulted in a concession is not clear , for the authorities appear to have hired and armed a body of men and posted them in the Exchange to arrest the strikers . |
| 29 | They were dismissed for 118 in only 44 overs but redeemed themselves in the field , cutting an impressive swathe through the Railway Union batting to win by 39 runs . |
| 30 | Now he could understand why the Finns came running out of their saunas and rolled themselves in the snow . |