Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Villagers still talk of ‘ death rays ’ that made birds fall out of the sky and car engines stop when the beams were switched on . |
| 2 | UN flies bodies home THE BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen were flown home to Pakistan yesterday as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days ’ . |
| 3 | BODIES of 23 peacekeepers shot in weekend battles with Somali gunmen in Mogadishu were flown home to Pakistan as the UN honed plans to hit back at the killers ‘ within days . ’ |
| 4 | When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area . |
| 5 | He noticed figures coming out of the barn , walking slowly and painfully to their homes . |
| 6 | The comparative freedom that the close presence of grandparents afforded wives contributed significantly to the high standard of farming seen . |
| 7 | They resembled whales lined up outside the headmaster 's office — huge humps sprawled over many kilometres . |
| 8 | During the run-up to the elections in 1990 the SPD candidate , Oskar Lafontaine , gave high priority to the withdrawal of NATO troops from German soil , and even the Christian Democratic government allowed doubts to creep in about the level of their commitment to NATO when they refused to modernise their short-range nuclear missiles in 1989 . |
| 9 | And Sue Rorstad chairman and managing director of Darlington based Poppies hit out at the six industrialists who praised the Government 's message of self reliance . |
| 10 | Just then , they heard footsteps running lightly up the stairs nearest to them . |
| 11 | He asked Americans to pull together in the name of patriotism . |
| 12 | This time she saw pebbles laid out over the whole of the surface , more or less evenly spaced . |
| 13 | When there was a sense of unrest and what not , and then first one ship then the other , starts shuddering but before that happened we saw Germans coming off in the rafts and that . |
| 14 | Enhanced staffing under PNP enabled schools to break away from the tradition of one teacher per class and experiment with various forms of classroom-based professional collaboration . |
| 15 | He said that his men were held back by the heat of the fire , which stripped plaster from the walls , burnt floorboards and brought ceilings crashing down onto the ground floor of the semidetached house . |
| 16 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 17 | It was almost time for Compline when Cadfael came from the gardens after his last round of the evening , and saw horsemen riding in at the gate . |
| 18 | A 62nd minute strike by Belgian international Marc Wilmots sent Hearts crashing out of the UEFA Cup . |
| 19 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 20 | A ghostly pale grey shape rises from the woodland edge , fingered wings held typically in the shallow V : a male hen harrier . |
| 21 | After discussions with CNAA Office for Scotland and with the institutions in the SCOTCAT network , it was agreed that the new-style SCOTVEC advanced courses fitted well into the SCOTCAT model of credit accumulation and transfer . |
| 22 | At first I though she had pissed herself , then I saw flowers tumble out of the sky and hit the water ahead of me like some strange rain . |
| 23 | The other colleges were equally committed to the provision of full-time and part-time advanced education , and to the pattern of combined advanced and non-advanced education which enabled students to progress easily through the system . |
| 24 | JUNIOR club Banbridge sent CIYMS crashing out of the First Trust Senior Cup yesterday — and now play host to Ballymena in the quarter-finals . |
| 25 | While Paris 's tenure saw events swallowed up by the huge bicentenary celebrations , West Berlin 's year stimulated an extraordinary range of artistic events , concentrated in the summer months . |
| 26 | Not only did Nonconformists suffer severely under the savage penal laws , but a whole range of other people were drawn into the process of enforcing them , which meant that they could be forced to decide whether their sympathies lay with Dissent or with the intolerant Anglican establishment . |
| 27 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
| 28 | But as she said she she just had to she could n't stay in bed when she had kids running all over the place . |
| 29 | Perhaps the biggest problem with the Severin thesis is that recent work in Mesoamerican archaeology , and the deciphering of Mayan hieroglyphic codes , make it clear that the classic Mayan civilisation ( AD300 to AD900 ) had precursors going back to the Olmecs in 1000BC and earlier . |
| 30 | Thailand and the Philippines had reservations stemming mainly from the disharmony between the Zone concept and their alliance relationships with the United States . |