Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I fought my way up the brae and saw all the council houses I almost turned back dismissing the possibility of there being any evidence of older architecture . |
| 2 | I made my way through the crowds to Farr 's in Brown Street , managed to get right up to the entrance and poke my head around the door to see what was going on . |
| 3 | The German mortars were exploding on the other side of the wood as I clambered out of the trench and made my way through the trees in the direction of the road . |
| 4 | I made my way through the trees to the farmyard , four Commandos were stacking ammunition against the farmhouse wall . |
| 5 | As I made my way through the trees in the direction of the village and Brigade H.Q there were several loud explosions a short distance away to my right , followed by a loud burst of automatic fire . |
| 6 | I collected up the pipes and made my way through the trees in the direction of NO. 3 Commando . |
| 7 | There was an angel watching over me , as someone had once predicted in my childhood when she read my fortune in the tea-leaves , in my cup of white china with the gilt shamrock on the rim and in the centre of the saucer . |
| 8 | I jerked my head towards the stairs , having already clocked the sign saying Intensive Care 4th Floor , and Les Girls followed me without breaking step . |
| 9 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |
| 10 | As she drew her finger along the initials , her stomach clenched and her eyes misted . |
| 11 | She jerked her head in the uniforms ' direction . |
| 12 | He drew their attention to the goods in shop windows , to the cooking-stoves and washing-machines in the windows of the electricity showrooms . |
| 13 | At intervals an enemy horseman might appear at the edge of the village to gaze through a spyglass at the Dutch positions , but no attacks followed such reconnaissances , no skirmishers wormed their way through the fields , and no cannon crashed shell or roundshot at the fragile Dutch lines . |
| 14 | This chapter has considered the important topic of money : we examined the definition of money , its functions and traced its evolution from the days of the goldsmiths . |
| 15 | A few cars honked their way through the crowds and cyclists rang their bells . |
| 16 | Newton Aycliffe 's Christine Brunskill also avenged her defeat at the hands of Middlesbrpugh and Cleveland Harrier Marie Stansmore . |
| 17 | She groaned and moved her head under the bedcovers so that the sunshine streaming far too cheerfully through the uncurtained window did n't blind her . |
| 18 | Many of the medical supporters of the legislation had a history of involvement in hospital and sanitary work among the poor , as local medical officers and poor law doctors — work which reinforced their commitment to the acts as part of the wider politics of public health . |
| 19 | It became unsafe and found its way between the wars to Newton . |
| 20 | In the mornings he worked in the kitchen while his aunt baked or cooked or sewed ; here in the evenings he absorbed the sense of the impact of new industries on an older more settled way of life which , much later , found its way into the stories and sketches of his best Welsh work , Rest and Unrest and Light and Twilight . |
| 21 | Roman fides found its way into the coins of Locri about 274 B.C. ( B. V. Head , Historia Numorum , 104 ) ; the devotio of Decius at Sentinum apparently attracted the attention of the contemporary historian Duris ( 76 F 56 Jacoby ) ; the exemplary rebuke of a Roman matrona to her son was reported by Callimachus in his Aetia ( fr. 107 Pfeiffer ) . |
| 22 | Maybe the parties foolishly signed a pact which then found its way into the hands of the DTI . |
| 23 | Somehow it found its way into the hands of a government minister , and he got in touch with us . ’ |
| 24 | Vast amounts of money were made through Cornish tin but very little found its way to the tinners themselves . |
| 25 | The Workers ' Party conference had also confirmed the continued existence of the Official Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) , which ceased its campaign in Northern Ireland in 1972 , at which time its political wing , Official Sinn Féin , changed its name to the Workers ' Party . |
| 26 | I have left till last what may well be considered by book-collectors one of the most charming fields of ephemera collecting — that of the chapbook , so called from the chapman or pedlar in whose pack so many of these small publications found their way through the shires of England . |
| 27 | Where it licked the Wizards ' Quarter it burned blue and green and was even laced with strange sparks of the eighth colour , octarine ; where its outriders found their way into the vats and oil stores all along Merchant Street it progressed in a series of blazing fountains and explosions ; in the streets of the perfume blenders it burned with a sweetness ; where it touched bundles of rare and dry herbs in the storerooms of the drugmasters it made men go mad and talk to God . |
| 28 | Whatever the merits of this argument , what it points to is the way in which the complexities of these tensions found their focus in the questions of sexuality . |
| 29 | She was not asking , she was demanding ; but they were all used to her ways and were probably scared of upsetting her in case she changed her mind about the invitations . |
| 30 | Coward and others used their analysis of the clusters to define what they term the ‘ research front ’ , which is the set of core journals modelling the current state of active research in a subject field . |