Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take a drive in the country during the hedgehog season and you will see the remains of thousands of them splattered across the roads . |
| 2 | The men drank beer from the bottles , and one of them passed round the cigarettes he had bought on the flight , and the blond girl contributed a half-bottle of Stock brandy . |
| 3 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 4 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |
| 5 | Then I asked for the inlays , two humbuckers , two volumes and a tone . |
| 6 | I gazed at the pistons , the steam , the vats and the slopping trays : so much wetness to produce something as dry as paper . |
| 7 | We rolled heavily as I clung to the shrouds scanning the reef as best I could . |
| 8 | German young people recently have shown a more revolutionary and radical sort of behaviour than one would have dreamt possible in the old Germany , but in this morning 's paper I read of the results of erm a public opinion poll recently conducted by the German government about neo-nazism in Germany , showing what seems to be a rather alarming quantity of surviving interest in sympathy for old nazism . |
| 9 | I read in the papers last week benzene , the benzene is used in unleaded petrol . |
| 10 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
| 11 | I crept up the stairs and stuck my head between the banisters , but the landing was empty . |
| 12 | No. 9 had long since gone to bed , so I crept up the stairs as quietly as I could . |
| 13 | I crept behind the curtains and looked out . |
| 14 | Was it any wonder I resorted to the drinks cabinet in the director 's Portakabin ? |
| 15 | I tramped through the ruins of Tughlukabad trying in my mind to fill the deserted barracks with Turkish mameluks and Persian cavalry officers . |
| 16 | I lived for the cliches , I awaited them . |
| 17 | Of course , there was always Agnes , and I lived for the nights when I joined the Ralembergs for their simple meal . |
| 18 | Erm I lived in the flats from Christmas eighty three till September eighty five . |
| 19 | For six months I lived in the homes of working-class women , men and children . |
| 20 | Well , I fought with the Russians , the Prussians also , |
| 21 | When Athman did re-emerge into visibility , it was once again as someone embroiled in the struggles of others , and , now along with Gide , subjected to the homophobic sneer . |
| 22 | I agreed with the points that he made then and that is precisely what we have done . |
| 23 | I stalked amongst the booths and ramshackle dwellings built against the wall . |
| 24 | I checked under the jeans to make sure I was n't wearing the Donald Duck boxer shorts . |
| 25 | I got to the printers with my Boy George piece and it was finally time to say , ‘ Look , this is only a thousand words long and I still have n't got to the interview . |
| 26 | According to Gawley , Dunlop had agreed to make alterations to the gear box immediately after the North West race but he added : ‘ When I got to the pits at the North West immediately after the 125 class had been run off , I saw the bike lying there with no-one attending to it . |
| 27 | Strangely enough , I got into the blues . |
| 28 | ‘ I got into the arms trade as an idealist , ’ he says , taking a long draw on his Rothmans cigarette . |
| 29 | I got on the buses at Trafalgar Square , it took me to the other end and brought me back again , and I got down and got on another one . |
| 30 | Anyway , when I got on the scales I 'm ten stone three . |