Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember vividly being on night guard prior to the morning executions when some prisoners sang and rattled their tin mugs against the bars in some form of defiance . |
| 2 | Given their view of the reports as generally descriptive , it is hardly surprising that few teachers felt that having to submit a written report on their school was in any measure a professional threat to them . |
| 3 | The defendants ( A ) were officials of a union to which all but a very few watermen belonged and wished to bring pressure on C in connection with a grievance at another company controlled by him . |
| 4 | Torture was used as a matter of course and some suspects died or became insane as a result of the methods employed . |
| 5 | Such were the army , in which both George I and George II took a strong personal interest , and foreign policy , about which as a rule few ministers knew or cared very much . |
| 6 | At the 10th plenum a new draft political platform was released , which some commentators saw as marking a return to central planning , while others saw it as an essentially reformist tract . |
| 7 | He then went back to headquarters and together with some colleagues went and collected Mxenge 's car from the parking lot . |
| 8 | Numerous such accidents happened whilst igniting , for if the slow fuze happened to be not so slow , or the miner inadvertently touched the straw with his candle , then he might have but a few impossible seconds to make good his escape . |
| 9 | It is perhaps the understandable reluctance to see such assets wasted that explains the determination , tenacity and moderate success of women in accountancy . |
| 10 | Though these clubs grew and become more formalised , supporters were still able to maintain an illusion of participation in the team 's affairs . |
| 11 | Although , and it is important to stress this , most of these methods arose and developed from a diverse range of sources and traditions , their contemporary unity was a rather later achievement , as that collection of ideas we can refer to as variable analysis . |
| 12 | Early work in the 19305 and 194056 had established that there were systematic changes in brainwaves with sleep , in that large , slow waves developed very soon ( within fifteen minutes ) after a subject fell asleep at night , and during the night the amplitude of these waves waxed and waned . |
| 13 | These relationships continued and developed . |
| 14 | These films showed that using the past as a mirror through which to view the present was an approach of limited value during wartime . |
| 15 | These firms survived and prospered until 1902 , when they merged with the Union Bank which in turn was absorbed by the National Provincial Bank . |
| 16 | These guys proved that synthesised music did n't have to be cold and aloof . |
| 17 | Her current lover ( ah , how these lovers came and went ! ) , was an alcoholic . |
| 18 | These men jeered and poked sticks through the bars at creatures they secretly , at once , feared and desired . |
| 19 | These trends continued and accelerated in the 1970s , and are discussed more fully in the summary at the end of this section , but in advance of the more definitive work allowed by the 1981 Census , a number of local studies began to identify a group of common themes . |
| 20 | These women ran and organized all the groups and I remember often being approached as if I were a rare species of animal . |
| 21 | All authorities agreed that adding the substance to water was the best way to limit the daily dosage . |
| 22 | Once transferred to series production , so many defects emerged as to make the consignment unusable . |
| 23 | Funny cos there are n't many places left that do that now are there ? |
| 24 | Robert seems to have had a special affection for the Orynthia ; whereas many mariners came and went as the whim took them , he stuck to his old ship . |
| 25 | The vast benefits many farmers saw as accruing to cities as a result of rural exploitation were no more than illusory . |
| 26 | Many families thought that getting their baby home would be the hardest part , but that is just the beginning . |
| 27 | In the 1950s many teachers found that exercises in grammatical analysis did not help children to raise their standards in the use of English . |
| 28 | In the group discussions , many men claimed that turning their partner on was the exciting part of sex . |
| 29 | Too many chances came and went , but they never stopped going . |
| 30 | All practices agreed that preparing for and implementing fundholding was an enormous administrative task . |