Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 2 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 3 | They led the dogs to a place where the river meandered and the shingle bank was broad and deserted , and they beat them with sticks or stoned them . |
| 4 | We have decided to hand them over ( Gen Keightley is in touch and on good terms with the Russian general on his right ) , but I suggested that the Russians should at the same time give us any British prisoners or wounded who may be in his area . |
| 5 | Her eyes never left his , the woman 's , and she did not a damn thing to cross her legs or put her hands across her breasts . |
| 6 | Peter did not read the newspapers , nor listen to the radio or watch television much ; he read books or played his games . |
| 7 | DROP : A player drops a ball when he has hit out of bounds or lost his original ball . |
| 8 | Did they in fact have access to the new birth-control methods or did they practice older nineteenth-century birth-control techniques , more suited to the pockets of the working class ? |
| 9 | No-one had told him about schools or explained their purpose . |
| 10 | So erm how did it , did you stay for the full six months or did it er extend further than that ? |
| 11 | In the process of sexual selection , certain males were said to develop characteristics that gave them the edge over other males in the competition for females . |
| 12 | Other stands that caught my eye on my tour were Johnny van Haeften 's very fine paintings , Wartski 's exquisite objets d'arts , David Messum 's fine painting , Bernheimer Fine Arts , and Garrard the Crown Jewellers ' silver . |
| 13 | He joked with them like a cheerful , older brother and sang one or two shockingly rude Army songs that made them both giggle . |
| 14 | ‘ These are the songs I grew up listening to , ’ she says , ‘ they are the songs that made me want to be a singer . ’ |
| 15 | These were songs that laced their natural exuberance with a strain of English satire that was remarkable because it seemed so unaffected . |
| 16 | More than a hundred years of systematic captivity had created a whole new genus , animals that had none of the skills and few of the desires of a wild habitat . |
| 17 | Specialized ornithischians in the late Cretaceous were the remarkable duck-billed dinosaurs , animals that lost their front teeth and had arrays of tiny grinding teeth at the back of the jaw that were continually replaced , like those of the shark , and must have been able to cope with tough vegetation . |
| 18 | Great houses did not of course cease to be built ; on the contrary , almost as many were erected in the nineteenth century as a whole as in the three centuries that preceded it put together . |
| 19 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
| 20 | She ran , fleeing the demons that pursued her , dragging in great gasps of cold air as if they were her last . |
| 21 | Excitement spread tentacles that fastened round her heart , squeezing it mercilessly so that it was unable to beat , tentacles that compressed her lungs so they were unable to breathe . |
| 22 | But it soon became apparent to the pioneering voluntary organizations that established them , such as the Richmond Fellowship , that patients who had been mentally unwell for years did not miraculously become capable of independent living in a short space of time ; they often needed permanent help and support and coped particularly poorly with changes in their environment and lifestyle . |
| 23 | All the organizations that worked there were offered alternative accommodation , which they were all sensible enough to accept . |
| 24 | But there was something about them , maybe their mohair suits , maybe the hard men they imported from Glasgow or maybe their bonding as brothers that made them seem glamorous . |
| 25 | The throw took her by surprise , was sharp and strong , and went a little wide , so that it was only the experience of three younger brothers that gave her quick enough reflexes to shoot an arm out sideways to take the catch . |
| 26 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 27 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 28 | It was n't easy to tell , from the filthy and shapeless rags that covered their filthy and shapeless bodies , but I guessed that there was a man and a woman and some smaller ones that were children . |
| 29 | Nothing moved , but the world tilted , and she looked down into eyes that registered he had felt it too . |
| 30 | His dilated pupils told one story , the honesty of the eyes that enclosed them another . |