Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 2 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 3 | They led the dogs to a place where the river meandered and the shingle bank was broad and deserted , and they beat them with sticks or stoned them . |
| 4 | Did they in fact have access to the new birth-control methods or did they practice older nineteenth-century birth-control techniques , more suited to the pockets of the working class ? |
| 5 | So erm how did it , did you stay for the full six months or did it er extend further than that ? |
| 6 | In the process of sexual selection , certain males were said to develop characteristics that gave them the edge over other males in the competition for females . |
| 7 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 8 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 9 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 10 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
| 11 | She ran , fleeing the demons that pursued her , dragging in great gasps of cold air as if they were her last . |
| 12 | But it soon became apparent to the pioneering voluntary organizations that established them , such as the Richmond Fellowship , that patients who had been mentally unwell for years did not miraculously become capable of independent living in a short space of time ; they often needed permanent help and support and coped particularly poorly with changes in their environment and lifestyle . |
| 13 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |
| 14 | The throw took her by surprise , was sharp and strong , and went a little wide , so that it was only the experience of three younger brothers that gave her quick enough reflexes to shoot an arm out sideways to take the catch . |
| 15 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 16 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 17 | Nothing moved , but the world tilted , and she looked down into eyes that registered he had felt it too . |
| 18 | His dilated pupils told one story , the honesty of the eyes that enclosed them another . |
| 19 | Julius stood in the doorway , and there was a bright light in his eyes that made her feel very alarmed . |
| 20 | He smiled suddenly , something in his eyes that made her instantly wary , but when she tried to remove her hand from his arm he covered her fingers with his own and held them there . |
| 21 | Under a massive front-page headline , HUNT FOR DRACULA FIEND ( Star ) , the report indicated that a 13-year-old was able to tell detectives that her attacker ‘ had short dark hair streaked with grey and deep-set eyes that made him ‘ look a bit like Dracula ’ ' . |
| 22 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 23 | He looked at her with his blue eyes that made you feel you were in the far distance and he was bringing you into focus gradually , like a ball magnetised to drop into his outstretched hand , be clasped by his fingers . |
| 24 | Blue eyes that made it hard to look away . |
| 25 | She had bright blue eyes that surveyed them warily . |
| 26 | Dark , almond eyes that pierced him with their beauty . |
| 27 | The temperature in the restaurant seemed to drop by several degrees , and the eyes that met hers across the table glittered threateningly gold . |
| 28 | And the eyes that challenged her across he table were just brown eyes , filled with lazy amusement . |
| 29 | There was something about the look in his eyes that told her this was a time to listen and not argue . |
| 30 | At first I did n't believe her but there was something in her eyes that told me it was true . |