Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Liverpool from late December 1888 the waterfront was seething with discontent , three major strikes took place , permanent unions emerged , the employers combined to oppose them and the traditional relationships between employers and employees were lastingly shattered " . |
| 2 | Forster , without consulting his officers , sent to Carpenter to ask for terms , though the Scots threatened to kill him and fight on . |
| 3 | The parents had invited him and two other members of Martin Frears ' alleged gang . |
| 4 | Then the Italians started to raid us and we had no fighter planes |
| 5 | We have found in the past that visitors have been most appreciative of the efforts made to inform them and have also been most complimentary on what they have seen . |
| 6 | The khthons had untied them and left a torch before locking the dungeon door . |
| 7 | In an incident in Cetekovac in eastern Croatia , more than 20 are said to have been killed , including unarmed civilians , by Serbian insurgents who attacked the village on 4 September 1991 ; an old man described to a visiting journalist how the insurgents had forced him and others to stand in line and shot dead one villager who tried to flee . |
| 8 | The teachers managed to corner him and grappled with his clothing . |
| 9 | Michael Green draws attention to the fact that the Gospels represent an entirely new literary form , which was neither history , nor biography , but a highly selective weaving together of fragments using preaching and teaching ‘ arranged in order to show what sort of person Jesus was , to give the evidence on which the disciples had followed him and had adjudged him the Messiah and Son of God , and by the strongest possible implication , challenge the readers to make the same act of faith in Christ as they themselves had done ’ ( Green 1970:229 , 230 ) . |
| 10 | Once the wheat reaches the milky-to-cheesy ripe stage , the badgers begin to eat it and damage a lot more by flattening it . |
| 11 | Meredith miserably eyed the bevy of beautiful women who 'd appeared , apparently friends of his , but the tears began to blind her and their faces blurred . |
| 12 | ‘ You do that , you pay a bill and you get a piece of paper in a language you do n't understand but it must be right because the lawyers have produced it and you have signed it . ’ |
| 13 | If the children had found it and Rachel had pointed it at Matthew in a child 's game , I dread to think about the consequences . |
| 14 | 14 Remember the students want to respect you and they want to learn ; you start off a class with a great fund of goodwill . |
| 15 | That 's what all the papers keep telling them and yet none of them take a blind bit of notice . |
| 16 | But she later told her parents the boys had raped her and they were quizzed by police for several days before the girl confessed to lying . |
| 17 | That is why the politicians want to muzzle us and control what we write and you read . |
| 18 | Oh yes , they 've paid for th all the workmen coming to do them and everything . |