Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was really concerned for the crowds because he knew that he was their only hope . |
| 2 | ‘ There was a review of Bolger in the Times and it said that although the city of culture had n't been a success the Dublin Theatre Festival was , ’ he says . |
| 3 | The C[atholic] C[urate] was sent out to patrol the roads and anybody found or seen on the roads had to give their names . |
| 4 | Herons abounded on the desert bank , rising awkwardly out of the reeds as we approached and flapping heavily away . |
| 5 | I was up , and I went to the shops and I came and there 's a wee boy which used to live in the flats , and he says hello Nelly . |
| 6 | Joanne 's commitment to the next 12 months will leave her little time for the hobbies that she enjoyed before tennis came along . |
| 7 | Although a library committee of some sort existed before the project invitation , the head reports that : It was no more than three of four people who were simply monitoring the use of the library and keeping an eye on the books that we needed and the way children used the library . |
| 8 | I pulled my skirt up a little but he said he 'd have to see higher than that to make sure my legs were n't bowed at the knees so I did as I was told . |
| 9 | ‘ No , this he threw back into the bushes when it snapped and turned in his hand . |
| 10 | His facility for drawing became an essential tool in recording the sites that he excavated and the objects recovered from them . |
| 11 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 12 | But there was laughter at his response to a question about a reported split among the directors when he said that the board was ‘ united and happy ’ with the direction the club was taking . |
| 13 | But there was laughter at his response to a question about a reported split among the directors when he said that the board was ‘ united and happy ’ with the direction the club was taking . |
| 14 | I would buy the parchment and arrange its transport down to the wharves and we concluded that , if we sold the wine brought back on the first voyage , we would make a profit . |
| 15 | For instance , I Was A Teenage Six Pistol by Glen Matlock ( Omnibus , £12.95 ) is only on the shelves because someone calculated that if one out of every few hundred punk rockers is daft enough to shell out nearly £13 for Matlock 's eye-witness account of the writing of ‘ Pretty Vacant ’ , then they 'll make a small fortune . |
| 16 | At first , we could only hear the wagons and we thought that it could be someone hand-shunting , but at this time of night ? |
| 17 | As a starting point for my research I decided to find out about the numbers of teachers who worked in secondary schools , the posts that they held and the distribution of men and women teachers to various posts , together with their qualifications and salaries . |
| 18 | Indeed these figures made even sorrier reading for the Conservatives when one realised that demographic shifts were working in the Government 's favour . |
| 19 | IF DODGE City and Tombstone had to wait for movie star-type heroes to save them from the outlaws who were over-running the communities , would they stand by the lawmen if it looked like the bad guys were n't going to stay beat ? |
| 20 | But his eyes went back to the Workshops and he frowned and sought for the right thing to say . |
| 21 | They were in the suburbs and she replied that she would prefer the Royal Avenue Hotel in the centre of the city . |
| 22 | Er and we 'll have a look at all the things that they carried and erm fought with later on . |
| 23 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 24 | And there was this awful woman , Mrs so and so , that was always telling women what to do and , she she was n't very popular because some of the things that she suggested that women did to make do and mend were so tedious and time consuming . |
| 25 | What are the things that you introduced that were different from previous mayors ? |
| 26 | What are the things that you introduced that were different from previous Mayors ? |
| 27 | ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries . |
| 28 | The newspaper claimed that China 's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping had personally ordered the changes after he discovered that Yang Baibing had convened a secret and unauthorized meeting of high-ranking military personnel prior to the congress . |
| 29 | He asked me to take a message to the Blackpool Conference conveying to the delegates that he felt that he could not lead the Party at the General Election , and inviting those whose business it was to do so , to take soundings about the future leadership . |
| 30 | Kind of but a cross between the ringlets you do and the ringlets that I had and the type of hair I 've got . |