Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great anger had heated up , one of Robertson 's new windows had been shattered by a stone , and the womenfolk had made a move to drag the teacher out and throw him in the river . |
| 2 | Some of the womenfolk had turned away , unable to look . |
| 3 | All the sheep were on lower ground where they could be reached by men on horseback , and the womenfolk had laid in stocks of flour and yeast , so that there was no shortage of food . |
| 4 | However , prior to the Paras going in , The Prudes had proved a completely distinctive and revelatory experience . |
| 5 | Were the activities undertaken suited to the capacities of the children ? |
| 6 | And afterwards , for a second she had felt him relax against her , his body spent , his feelings so near the surface she could almost reach out and touch them , and then he had wrenched himself away from her and the defences had gone slamming back up , shutting her out . |
| 7 | Palaeomagnetic studies on the continents had indicated that continental drift had , in fact , occurred , while more detailed information on the Earth 's crustal and sub-crustal structure had led many to accept the existence of a relatively mobile zone within the mantle ( the asthenosphere ) . |
| 8 | Although the basic position of the continents had remained unchanged since the Mesozoic , variations in the sea level might have opened up land passages between areas now separated by shallow seas . |
| 9 | Measurements of remanent magnetism in a variety of volcanic rocks found on the continents had shown that some were magnetized in the opposite direction to the Earth 's present magnetic field . |
| 10 | The events that he suggested ( his theory fell out of favour in the Twenties , and has only been revived since the study of palaeomagnetism indicated the strong likelihood that the continents had drifted , and in continuous directions at regular velocities ) were supposed to have started to take place 600 million years ago . |
| 11 | The evidence that the continents have drifted , that South America did indeed break away from Africa for instance , is now literally overwhelming , but this is not a book about geology and I shall not spell it out . |
| 12 | At the National Children 's Home Southdowns home in Hampshire the forms have influenced practice . |
| 13 | You 've got to erm , I 've got to get well Dad 's got the form I can get another one he can , erm the forms have got to be in soon so she knows how many are going to be sort of on the walls you know . |
| 14 | I mean if Glasgow breaks down for I mean if the pros get called out for two weeks it 's not gon na make a big deal of difference at Norwich . |
| 15 | SALIM MALIK hits back at England charges after the Pakistanis had won the Test series |
| 16 | They took five wickets each , and must have convinced all concerned that — as the Pakistanis have shown — attacking bowling runs rings round the boring containment of seamers . |
| 17 | In fact , ‘ I shot The Sheriff ’ was merely a Marleyised version of the storyline in a song that The Wailers had used as a vocal showcase since the late '60s , The Impressions ' ‘ Keep On Moving ’ . |
| 18 | What was also becoming more evident was something that one of the experts had pointed out . |
| 19 | The press and the experts had put the monkey on his back that he could n't win a major , that he seemed to be ‘ choking on Sundays ’ . |
| 20 | The jargon , the mystique and the experts have dominated in the recent past . |
| 21 | Recently the experts have deemed this unlikely . |
| 22 | They have to deal with the attitudes to change found within the organisation , attempting to amplify positive attitudes and reduce negative ones . |
| 23 | A man short , the Fourth Division side held their more illustrious opponents at bay with no great difficulty until midway through the first half , and the crowds had fallen into an apprehensive silence when Drinkell revived their spirits . |
| 24 | The crowds had seen some legendary events . |
| 25 | When the crowds had left after the second home match , Chapman met the helpers in the stand and asked them to take him on trust , asserting that the changes were in the club 's interest . |
| 26 | The crowds had impeded the dung carts and the piles of rubbish and refuse were everywhere , the flies rising in thick black swarms . |
| 27 | The crowds had lessened considerably , and a woman slightly shorter than Fox , grey-haired , was approaching the door of number 23 . |
| 28 | The crowds have disappeared and the weather is still warm . |
| 29 | If you do your searches during the evening when the crowds have departed you will be able to sweep the head of your detector over the very spots where people dropped their cash . |
| 30 | The swings had gone and the pier had been demolished ; a few years ago the Council had given permission for a café-and-restaurant to be built , but the place had only been open a month when it caught fire and was burned out ; the Fire Brigade could n't get to it , the promenade being too narrow for their vehicles . |