Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [coord] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Because of all the bad press that miners got and in a sense Quix was responding from higher up probably by saying you know well take the b they took the box away in fact at the end of the miner 's strike and then when this strike came along they thought it would n't you know the the they that was their rule sort of thing .
2 A number of unexpected things happened and in the middle of it all they had to make a decision about purchasing a property .
3 Their talk and behaviour took a slightly different form from ours just as their uniforms did and for the same reason but their major premises seemed to be the same .
4 Dysentery among the passengers continued and during the storm almost everyone had been sick , so that with the lack of sanitation the steerage was truly awash .
5 After a bright opening , inspired by Wall Street , prices retreated and by the close the broadly based FT-SE share index was down 6.5 points at 2,312.1 .
6 The cartoon , and I , I was only I can remember , my dream was really vivid , I was standing up in my cot , and all of a sudden my bedroom windows flew open , curtains blew and in the window this bright light and then this wolf coming to get me , and it was the most scary dream I 've ever had .
7 The sun was up , the dark clouds disappeared and for a moment she breathed easy .
8 World Markets New York : Shares drifted and by the close the Dow Jones average was down 13.52 points at 2,759.84 .
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