Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , as other African countries have discovered , African insurance companies were too small to carry major risks and had to lay them off with foreign re-insurers . |
| 2 | She did it twice , then pulled the instrument from her ears and began to unwrap the rubber . |
| 3 | Flora put her hands over her ears and began to jump about all over the kitchen . |
| 4 | I closed my ears and tried to close my mind to what was happening . |
| 5 | Tolby smoothed back the tufts of hair above his ears and tried to smile back . |
| 6 | Left alone , Meredith ignored her shaking legs and managed to strip off and ease herself into the heavy waist petticoats from beside the chest . |
| 7 | Climbing one branch higher , Virginia reached out and stroked the cat 's head ; then , gently , she placed her hand round its hind legs and began to ease them out of the fork . |
| 8 | But when he had leapt off his horse to approach it the chest had sprouted legs and had gone trotting off into the forest , stopping again a few hundred yards away . |
| 9 | It moved down between her legs and started to stroke her . |
| 10 | Wednesday it went very well indeed , yes , I , we made forty four pounds , twenty nine pence on the day and then Betty went to Sawbridgeworth with some cushion covers and managed to sell them off for another five pounds so we got . |
| 11 | Moving with agonising stealth , she slipped from beneath the covers and began dressing , grateful that the jogging-suit she 'd left draped over the chair had no noisy zips to be contended with . |
| 12 | It was a 21st minute moment of magic which delighted the home fans and seemed to stun Middlesbrough , who had started the game with more purpose and menace . |
| 13 | The Navigator ached almightily with cramps and had soiled himself . |
| 14 | He took in the rising storm signals and tried to make himself look serious . |
| 15 | He ruled the new generation with a rod , boys who had worshipped the hero as kids and tried to emulate him in their tennis-ball pick-up games — ‘ Bags I be Washy ! ’ |
| 16 | Humanism considered the most powerful or most noble within society to be the best readers and directed writing at them not exclusively because writers looked to this class for generous rewards or for some snobbish appeal . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , one of the Sheriff 's impromptu posse had earlier been drinking with the brothers and had noticed George 's notorious mutilated thumb . |
| 18 | They replied that Edmund left no claim to his brothers and had wanted Cnut to support and protect his sons until they were old enough to rule , and they also swore that they wished to elect Cnut king , humbly obey him , and pay tribute to his army . |
| 19 | She had eight brothers and had had to fight or argue with every one of them at some time or another . |
| 20 | He thought that either the military were arresting all the leading dissidents and had cut his communication links with the outside world , or the rebels had succeeded in crippling the vidphone network . |
| 21 | On one occasion , when Miss Mayhew had gone off to have her hair done after my lesson , I took myself off to the newspaper offices and asked to look up their old records . |
| 22 | Time and again those brought to trial reveal proper trades and had completed apprenticeships . |
| 23 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 24 | 23 of the charges allege that Mr Oliffe caused unnecessary suffering to farm animals , another 11 allege that he starved animals and failed to provide adequate facilities and accommodation . |
| 25 | Mrs Thwaites and I followed the path made in the snow by the animals and managed to get out of the dale all right . |
| 26 | The Zoo authorities soon recognized that he understood animals and offered to promote him to be one of the keepers . |
| 27 | After Kristallnacht he forbade further attacks on Jews and tried to have the worst ringleaders punished by the courts . |
| 28 | Even my mother had closed her eyes and ceased to speak of bridal nerves , and my groom , who meant as little to me as his mother 's dog , was just as he had always been . |
| 29 | She banged her fist against the steering-wheel , fighting back the tears that scalded her eyes and threatened to blind her . |
| 30 | Lat searched his own eyes and saw reflected there the mingled emotions that haunted his mind . |