Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gender is also a particularly important factor in determining whether or not individuals are supported or prevented in their attempts to live independently . |
| 2 | The Pack Meeting Hall was now fairly bulging with Christmas gifts they had made or bought , or begged from their mothers . |
| 3 | Coupled with under-funding , this made commercial software development unattractive and many of the major educational publishing companies such as Heinemann , Longman , Oxford University Press , and Macmillan , who had initially invested heavily in software development , eventually retrenched or withdrew from their activities . |
| 4 | The King 's main object in forcing the Act through Parliament was to regain the revenue from the perquisites enjoyed by a feudal lord and paid or owed by his tenants , known as the incidents of feudal tenure which had been depleted by the practice of conveying land to uses ( see below , Chapter 5 ) . |
| 5 | And the birds of the air sang in its branches and made nests ; and the insects of the earth swarmed upon it or tunnelled into its leaves , or stems , or fruit , as is their wont . |
| 6 | One occasionally has a glimpse of Green 's neighbours after he has been with them , or heard of their deaths , when he liked to write their obituaries . |
| 7 | They , and those who have not cohabited , may cross the threshold into marriage without much of a backward glance , feeling sure they have ‘ arrived ’ , thankful for having arrived , found their mate , achieved their haven , caught up with their friends , pleased or escaped from their parents . |
| 8 | The hills themselves looked asleep , the heather glowed dust-blue in the hazy light , and the people , after a night of little sleep and hours of walking and standing , now looked stunned as they sat on the grassy banks , leaned on dykes , or lay on their backs in the hayfields , munching oatcakes and drinking the last of their water . |
| 9 | In the first place , the universalising tendency of earlier feminist theories has been challenged by those ignored or negated by their categories — working class women , women of colour , lesbians , third world women and others . |
| 10 | It was not an animal you 'd care to tangle with , not even for the sake of the high-k meat that clung to its bones , not while rats were smaller and had less impressive jaws and could , besides , be sold to the lower-Level kind for a bounty of six minims per head , not to mention what their meat and skin would fetch . |
| 11 | Those ladies slim and brave enough to wear the high fashion were ethereal in gauzy dresses that clung to their bodies as they moved . |
| 12 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 13 | Francis of Assisi maintains an astonishingly high position of regard in the hearts of many Christians who would comfortably condemn Rose of Lima , despite the fact that as well as chatting to wolves and birds , his own asceticism , and that laid on his followers , was ferocious and absolute . |
| 14 | His mouth smothered hers again and she was aware of his taut , hard body lying across her own pliant form , aware of the roughness of his chest , the sculptured contours of muscle that rippled through her fingers as they clutched and stroked at his skin . |
| 15 | Only after 1922 , with the war at last receding from memory and coalition over , did the party take the decisions that led to its successes of the next twenty years . |
| 16 | In the audience was Paul Palmer , a geophysicist , and it was from this that Jones became involved with solid state fusion and set out on the road that led to his interactions with Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 17 | Presently , by what caprice of Providence he never knew , he found himself on the street that led to his lodgings , and stumbled towards it . |
| 18 | I even tried laying trails of cheese that led to my feet , which she scoffed up , but she did n't trust me enough to take the cheese from my hand . |
| 19 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 20 | No , it was n't this that got on his nerves , but the monotony of his surrounding , the long , long road through the camp , the huts going off here and there , the airfield dotted with little planes , looking like toys , the new hall that was used for entertainments , pictures and the church services , standing out like a sore thumb . |
| 21 | Her small crushed handkerchief was quite inadequate to contain the huge tears that welled from her eyes after she had heard of the death of Signor Fixit . |
| 22 | He should have been less intimidating now he was seated , but she still felt uneasy , and she was annoyed with herself for showing any weakness , but she could n't help the quiver in her voice , the tears that pricked behind her eyes . |
| 23 | He had rejoiced in its glossy purplish midsummer beauty which had sheltered the gentle ring-doves that cooed among its branches . |
| 24 | Our breath made huge clouds of steam which hid our faces as we talked , and we hopped about and shrugged elaborately to ward off the penetrating fingers of cold that probed at our necks and hands . |
| 25 | The first section of the exhibition deals with antiquities found by Howard Carter or that passed through his hands . |
| 26 | Although he was wearing an old check shirt and dirty cricket flannels that stopped above his ankles , Constance thought him the most elegantly handsome man she had ever seen . |
| 27 | They cursed the trailing brambles that caught at their ankles and set up shouts as rabbits and pheasants fled into the darkness before them . |
| 28 | Robyn held it out at arm 's length , glanced at it and then cursed as she saw the blood that dripped from her fingers on to the black plastic . |
| 29 | Ace ran through rain that hissed like radio static , through mud that sucked at her heels , through rolls of smoke that cloaked the camp with the darkness of night and parted only occasionally to reveal nothing but clouds , almost as dark , racing across the sky above . |
| 30 | But then it turned to mud — horrible stuff that sucked at my feet , and stank . |