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Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1	Those who fought through the months to make it a much leaner , quicker body exercising true peer group pressure will be a touch disappointed .
2	Those who fought through the months to make it a much leaner , quicker body exercising true peer group pressure will be a touch disappointed .
3	Oh you have n't gone up to a bar and asked for a pils have you ?
4	The air between them suddenly seemed static , as she fought for the words to justify her decision .
5	He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him .
6	I woke Laura , then shouted on the guys to waken them .
7	She also had been able to put her feelings on hold as she concentrated on the problems facing her .
8	Two of the green-coated horsemen unholstered their carbines and took aim at Sharpe , but their officer shouted at the troopers to hold their fire .
9	When the time came for the women to take their seats in the coach , Silas , Lucy and Jean stood to wave farewell .
10	But nobody ever came into the woods to shake their finger in my face and lay down the law , the way they did with Gittel in the dorf .
11	Since you since you came into the flats have you have you been working at all or have have you been erm
12	He was about to continue when officials of the embassy came down the steps to greet us .
13	She appealed to the Teachers to give them their support in every way possible .
14	But he appealed to the students to contain their passion and to show a measure of reason .
15	‘ You did n't even know what had happened to your dad when you came to the police saying he was missing- ’ added Dexter with venom .
16	A serjeant-at-arms , wearing the royal arms of France on his tabard , gestured to the archers to hoist me into the saddle of a horse whose reins he held .
17	And I 'm , I 'm sure that was the reason , there , I mean there are all sorts of er accounts of you know how people poured onto the streets waving their bloody flags in nineteen fourteen and die in the trenches
18	The group sessions , which ran for 90 minutes each week , opened with the clients discussing what they had eaten during the previous week .
19	McShane , one of the driving forces behind the Hunger Marches of the 1930s , and Milligan , a founder member of the British Communist Party , hid in a pub and downed a few pints until a party of workers arrived from the Gorbals to rescue them .
20	But when convoys of vehicles arrived at the sites to start their planned test drilling in August 1986 they met a blockade of people sitting in the road .
21	She walked towards the khthons putting her arms up .
22	Constance detected a change in the atmosphere as Giancarlo excused himself and walked down the steps to greet his last guest .
23	He yelled at the students to separate themselves — women to the left and men to the right .
24	I said I had to piss , but I ran out of the house and walked around the streets wondering what the fuck to do and trying to imagine what Dad was saying to Mum and how she was taking it .
25	The Kurds who worked for the Turks killed her husband and children .
26	He picked up a walking-stick — or something — from the hall-stand , and leapt up the stairs to find his wife and Kemp in medio coitu , both of them completely naked .
27	probably the men who worked in the cisterns used them as a means of travelling from one side of the cavern to the other .
28	‘ Right here in Clonmacnoise , ’ the blonde ticket girl replied , and sent for a tall young man who worked in the grounds to show me her grave .
29	When you last called in the professionals to repair your washing machine or fix the car , how confident were you that the mechanic was up to the job ?
30	Miles called to the hunters to increase their speed .