Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 2 | She was a little overweight , her hands a touch too pudgy when she reached for various books and took them from the shelves . |
| 3 | They covered a large tract of ground , quite deserted , but conveniently illuminated by the high powerful lights round the warehouses that separated it from the still-working mainline railway . |
| 4 | Your mother was a witch 's daughter , born in your world but not in your time — long before that , in a time when they feared witches and hung them from the gallows tree . |
| 5 | ( Cohen also refers , for instance , to white youth who supported overtly racist immigration policies but dissociated themselves from the National Front ; see also the research on white youth reported in Coffield et al. , |
| 6 | Ruth nodded and before she could ask him if he was too he clasped her hands and hauled her from the water into his arms . |
| 7 | ( a ) It confirms whether you have correctly identified and understood the main points and separated them from the subsidiary details . |
| 8 | The whipmakers plaited their whips through the railings and hung them from the trees . |