Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American capitalist state looked to universities to help them in their war effort , enlisting the help of scientists , engineers , psychologists and sociologists . |
| 2 | ‘ The girl was walking on the pavement when the bus crashed into railings damaging them badly and the side of the bus hit her a glancing blow , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Ted Dexter , England 's chairman of selectors , last year appealed to counties to give their international players time off after tours — a request which mainly fell on deaf ears . |
| 4 | This study , of three-generational households in West Yorkshire , notes the expectation felt by women to contribute their labour and their income to a family unit beyond the household ( Afshar , 1989 ) . |
| 5 | His evidence was to help place Mrs Dyer on the scaffold , as was his wife Polly 's , who testified that her mother had at times visited her with various small children who seemed to disappear overnight . |