Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blokes tried to get us out with water — the firehoses . |
| 2 | Over twenty years the two great polo dynasties had battled it out in the Argentine Open at Palermo . |
| 3 | One of the littlest lads had heaved himself up onto the window-sill and was gazing out in rapture . |
| 4 | Protocol and politeness had taken him out to the airport to meet the Temporary Duty men off the flight . |
| 5 | Tom then howled and snatched it back and the parents intervened to tell him off for making a noise and for snatching . |
| 6 | The Firefly , owned by Jim Connell , of Gatley Drive , Maghull , near Liverpool , had almost sunk when rescuers managed to haul it on to a slipway and take it back to Douglas . |
| 7 | They had no available extended family : there were Potters scattered about North Yorkshire who had not been seen since Bill 's Congregationalist parents had cast him off for unbelief . |
| 8 | The Marines had sent her off in a small wooden-bedded truck that seemed to have no springs or shock-absorbers whatsoever . |
| 9 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 10 | When special buses provided by the universities arrived to take them back to the campuses , most took up the offer . |
| 11 | Then the officials decided to transfer him back to the Los Angeles County Jail . |
| 12 | There were three distinctive characteristics about the archosaurs that paleontologists discovered marked them off from their antecedents . |
| 13 | In all sixteen teams had made it through to this stage and with a full house the scene was set for an evening of top quizzing . |
| 14 | One of the monstrous hounds had followed her out of the main house and now pressed close to her legs . |
| 15 | ‘ Basically , the previous owners had messed it about with no idea of period style or taste ’ , says Peter . |
| 16 | The dapper , 52-year-old economist with his trademark owlish glasses had set himself up as a beacon of the reform movement as long ago as April 1991 when he led his party out of government . |
| 17 | Only this afternoon , one of the Maison 's new fabric suppliers had asked her out to dinner and made it perfectly plain that he found her attractive . |
| 18 | Members agreed to pass it on to Durham County Council . |
| 19 | The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth |
| 20 | In this area a number of small clothing-manufacturers had set themselves up since the war , migrating out from the East End of London . |
| 21 | Since the beginning of the summer , tens of thousands of club players had battled it out in club league qualifiers around the regions , in Men 's Open , regional play-offs , with all concerned hoping to carry their club 's name through to the prestigious finals in Hampshire . |
| 22 | The final total was 606 , scored in only ten hours of excellent batsmanship , although it was widely felt that the England selectors had helped them along by omitting Foster and playing two spinners , Cook and Miller , on a pitch of low bounce . |
| 23 | On NoS they were being treated to the miracle of new technology , bypassing the National Graphical Association compositors who , before the age of ‘ direct entry ’ computers , retyped the articles on Linotype hot metal machines after the subs had marked them up in pencil . |
| 24 | The verderers planned to take her back to Ridgery Butts but Ridgery Butts was the other side of the stream in a different world and this was the forest where nothing usual and expected happened . |
| 25 | John and his friend then began to fight back and were gaining the upper hand when the police intervened slamming them up against a wall with their arms pinned behind their backs . |
| 26 | But publishers decided to send him off after circulation , once 200,000 , fell to 30,000 . |
| 27 | A few mono copies of the album with the deleted cuts did make it out of the factory but no stereo version was believed to have been pressed until early this year , when the only known copy was advertised for auction by Strider Records of New York . |
| 28 | Men had beaten him up on several occasions , for no apparent reason . |
| 29 | But the men had to balance it up by , what they called chits , tha that came on every garment and how much er money they were getting for it . |
| 30 | Police had taken it over as an emergency headquarters . |