Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett thought it was mere drunken bravado when one of them lunged across the table and uproar ensued as food , cups and flagons of wine and ale were sent sprawling . |
| 2 | There were three of them seated in the wardroom , Talbot , Van Gelder and Grierson . |
| 3 | Matilda took the knife she had been eating with , and all four of them crept towards the dining-room door , the father keeping well behind the others . |
| 4 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 5 | The glass before them became like a mirror for the briefest time but it was a distorting , ghost-train mirror , more shadow than substance-with his mind adding hallucinatory details to the little that he could see . |
| 6 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 7 | It is a wonderful fact that I should be affected , and thus deeply and powerfully , more than by aught else in all my experience — that this fruit should be borne in me sprung from a seed finer than the spores of fungi , floated from other atmospheres ! finer than the dust caught in the sails of vessels a thousand miles from land ! |
| 8 | The bomb-bay of a Mosquito was too small to accommodate so large a bomb , and they had to carry them slung underneath the fuselage with the bomb doors open . |
| 9 | There will eventually be 10 zones in all , each of them designated in an area of particularly high unemployment . |
| 10 | The truth is that as painters and as a man and a woman , they were engaged , during these years , in the same adventure which turned out to be more fatal than either of them realised at the time . |
| 11 | The theory was that the effort of changing would keep me pinned to the table , diligent and creative . |
| 12 | That was how many of them got into the peep shows , selling off their self-respect in order to finance their habit . |
| 13 | By showing things-as-they-are , then showing them penetrated by the catalyst , the agent that embodies the will-to-change . |
| 14 | The most interesting show out of London is Miro : Sculpture , which has opened at the Southampton City Art Gallery ; 37 bronzes are on show , each one of them made by a Catalan , anarchist , sex-mad Santa Claus |
| 15 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 16 | Leith still had n't got herself back together again when the five of them moved to the dining-room . |
| 17 | The two older men made no reply to this , and neither of them moved towards the door to open it ; nor did they say ‘ Good-day … ’ |
| 18 | The French , like the Austrians and the Russians , were quite ready to consider the exclusion of the Turks from Serbia and , indeed , from all their European provinces , if they could see an advantage for themselves , but they also saw the danger of a disastrous confrontation if any of them moved before the time was ripe . |
| 19 | As soon as the song finished she grabbed her cousin and the two of them sank into a heap on the floor , hiding their faces and giggling . |
| 20 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
| 21 | I well remember , for example , friends numbered among Professor ( now Sir ) James Baddiley 's cohorts , all of them bent to the task of unscrambling the structures of different chunks of bacterial cell wall . |
| 22 | Old Stevenson would go spare if he knew , and I 'm not certain whether he 'd try and get me moved as a danger to junior staff , or you moved as a wicked woman . |
| 23 | The conversation between the four of them ranged from the trial and Venice itself to the difficulties besetting the people who were trying to build a better , more humane world than the old one on the wreckage left by the war . |
| 24 | Sadly two of them perished before the end of the war and the two remaining , that I remember well , saw the end of the war . |
| 25 | As Greg reached him he was stripping off his mask , and the two of them knelt over the form , laid face upwards on the earth . |
| 26 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |
| 27 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 28 | ‘ In the end I became like the chaplain or the lady who did the hair or the manicurist. patients would ask , ‘ has the artist done you yet ? ’ |
| 29 | Stalling for his arrival I asked about the religion . |
| 30 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |