Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the [noun prp] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the official surveyors who came to map the Trepke boundaries remained too afraid to go into the fields of the estate . |
| 2 | Farah Aydid agreed to allow the UN troops to guard Mogadishu airport and harbour , and to protect the transport of food to warehouses and distribution points within the city . |
| 3 | PC Whitehouse had told the Orion occupants to stay down . |
| 4 | Horses and chariots had helped the Hyksos pharaohs to gain ascendancy in Egypt . |
| 5 | The decline of the Scottish Tory Party which had marred the Thatcher years had been halted . |
| 6 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 7 | ‘ The vital information — that a woman had contacted the Oxford police looking for two dogs which fitted the description of Robbie and Sophie — was , for some reason , inadmissible in court . |
| 8 | We had chosen the Nelson Lakes park as the perfect walker 's playground . |