Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb past] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember vividly being on night guard prior to the morning executions when some prisoners sang and rattled their tin mugs against the bars in some form of defiance . |
| 2 | The defendants ( A ) were officials of a union to which all but a very few watermen belonged and wished to bring pressure on C in connection with a grievance at another company controlled by him . |
| 3 | He then went back to headquarters and together with some colleagues went and collected Mxenge 's car from the parking lot . |
| 4 | Though these clubs grew and become more formalised , supporters were still able to maintain an illusion of participation in the team 's affairs . |
| 5 | Although , and it is important to stress this , most of these methods arose and developed from a diverse range of sources and traditions , their contemporary unity was a rather later achievement , as that collection of ideas we can refer to as variable analysis . |
| 6 | Early work in the 19305 and 194056 had established that there were systematic changes in brainwaves with sleep , in that large , slow waves developed very soon ( within fifteen minutes ) after a subject fell asleep at night , and during the night the amplitude of these waves waxed and waned . |
| 7 | These relationships continued and developed . |
| 8 | These firms survived and prospered until 1902 , when they merged with the Union Bank which in turn was absorbed by the National Provincial Bank . |
| 9 | Her current lover ( ah , how these lovers came and went ! ) , was an alcoholic . |
| 10 | These men jeered and poked sticks through the bars at creatures they secretly , at once , feared and desired . |
| 11 | These trends continued and accelerated in the 1970s , and are discussed more fully in the summary at the end of this section , but in advance of the more definitive work allowed by the 1981 Census , a number of local studies began to identify a group of common themes . |
| 12 | These women ran and organized all the groups and I remember often being approached as if I were a rare species of animal . |
| 13 | Robert seems to have had a special affection for the Orynthia ; whereas many mariners came and went as the whim took them , he stuck to his old ship . |
| 14 | Too many chances came and went , but they never stopped going . |
| 15 | As more artefacts were collected and more sites discovered and excavated , the need for some method of ordering the information became more urgent , and so developed the techniques of dating . |
| 16 | Tits of several kinds flitted and called tantalisingly : great , blue , coal , marsh and long-tailed . |
| 17 | Both girls laughed and pushed each other in the chest . |
| 18 | Both men smiled and said their goodbyes . |