Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pigs wandered here with bells slung round their necks to show they were the property of the Hospital of St Anthony and could n't be slaughtered Beadles armed with steel-pointed staffs dispersed fowl or curbed the yapping of fierce yellow-haired dogs , whilst bailiffs tried to move on a strange creature dressed like a magpie in black and white rags . |
| 2 | Farnborough 1990 is featured with some interesting in flight cockpit shots of Su-27 and MiG-29 , plus the Russian aircraft that dominated the 1990 show , the Antonov An-225 . |
| 3 | However , the aircraft that caught the Stark was a French Mirage . |
| 4 | The Mildenhall aircraft veered away to the left and into a flying club canvas hangar full of light aircraft and churned the lot into kindling . |
| 5 | But their troops were badly trained and inexperienced and rain and fog turned the ground into a quagmire , which prevented the use of their aircraft and impeded the advance of their lorries and tanks . |
| 6 | On the base leg the captain took control of the aircraft and retarded the throttles . |
| 7 | Emmie paid her sixpence and grasped the rope . |
| 8 | Conglomerate BET rose 4p to 260p as Normura forecast profits up nearly £50m to £320m and said the shares were oversold . |
| 9 | For his article , ‘ An assessment of black is best ’ , Kane assembled copious data and marshalled the support of medical scientists , coaches and sportsmen ( 1971 ) . |
| 10 | Having gathered data and established the existing flow of work around the system — the Brown Paper — they proposed solutions around a second flow diagram , this time on white paper . |
| 11 | The horse screamed as the bullet scored its neck , and it seemed to leap with its hindlegs , making the rear a mighty buck that shipped the rider off and into the shallows of the lake . |
| 12 | Sir Henry Norris was an archetype of the old-style football club chairman , combining a slight knowledge of the game with a great deal of money to put into it , and he fitted the popular image with a walrus moustache that quivered when he was angry , and a pince-nez that had the disconcerting effect of partially obscuring the direction of his gaze . |
| 13 | Once the guns had gone , the black-uniformed Prussian cavalry waited in the town north of the river , reinforcing the brigade of infantry that ransacked the houses near the bridge for furniture , which they rather half-heartedly made into a barricade at the bridge 's northern end . |
| 14 | But after the investment was made Wright forged letters to cash in the bonds , to a total of £172,000 and paid the money into his own account . |
| 15 | Bertram paid his 50 pence and entered the park . |
| 16 | The moths go in at 50 mph and hit the net at 5 mph so they do n't damage their wings . |
| 17 | The moths go in at 50 mph and hit the net at 5 mph so they do n't damage their wings . |
| 18 | It began with a three at the 10th , where he hit a four-iron to 20ft and holed the putt . |
| 19 | We want to find people who can say , ‘ I 've saved £10,000 and helped the environment ’ . ’ |
| 20 | Cecil inserted another high-calibre short-range evil-doer into his assault cannon and pulled the trigger . |
| 21 | Application of human recombinant bFGF ( 1–100 µg/kg/hour subcutaneously ) failed to affect the formation of acute gastric lesions induced by 100% ethanol and acidified aspirin but reduced the stress induced by gastric lesions . |
| 22 | He then visited Quebec Barracks and saw the new brick buildings there which had only just replaced the old South African war huts . |
| 23 | It had an armed branch , the National Guard , which took over KGB headquarters and surrounded the radio and television studios . |
| 24 | It was all one to him whether he directed a battle or a raid from his headquarters and left the action to others , or himself went to work with lance or sword in the centre of the din ; they were merely complementary skills in the same comprehensive expertise . |
| 25 | Kitty knew them as well as any animal , as intimately as the dogs who worked the sheep and hunted the foxes and badgers and otters . |
| 26 | Chilton and his wife scraped together £250 and persuaded the manufacturer to produce an unwaxed batch . |
| 27 | She sat quietly , her freckled girl 's hand just encompassing the big brown mug , as though it had alighted there , her eyes held by the blessed , blissful forsythia that filled the whole kitchen with energy , with pleasure . |
| 28 | But now the water 's evaporating , killing the tiny fish that brought the birds here in the first place , and as the food source disappears , many birds are dying . |
| 29 | Twenty years ago , it contained more than 400 species of haplochromines , small fish that kept the algae down and maintained the food chain . |
| 30 | This included the vaunted Afrika Corps and paved the way for the conquest of southern Europe . |