Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally the inherent constraints of the archaeological evidence , our caution about the relationship between the archaeological record and the activities that formed it , and the limited research which has been carried out determine the cohesion and balance of a work of this type . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the Goths drove the Britons from Bourges , but the comes ( count or more precisely companion ) Paul , who led a force of Romans and Franks , attacked the Goths and took their booty . |
| 3 | The blackbirds that saw it quickly treated this bird as though it were potentially dangerous and mobbed it , even when their fellows could not see the owl and so were making no noise . |
| 4 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he shrieked , twisting about madly on the ropes that suspended him . |
| 5 | He moved at once , for he would not lie here on the floor before this ancient evil creature and , although it was awkward and painful to stand up because of the ropes that bound his arms , he did so in a swift fluid movement and stood eyeing the Robemaker . |
| 6 | Then they cut the ropes that tied me and I was able to get to my feet . |
| 7 | For most of the time the plaintiffs seemed to miss out on the need to prove their reliance on the accounts and had they addressed this early enough , the case might never have come to court . |
| 8 | ‘ Then Robert would have stamped out the flames and carried me still smouldering into the thicket . ’ |
| 9 | He saw the daft circles they made as a wind lifted the flames and turned them ; he saw their hysterical galloping back and forth , and saw the cherry-red line crackling across the stumps of corn , towing its apron of smoke . |
| 10 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 11 | They were always touching each other ; they fucked the lecturers and asked them for money for drugs . |
| 12 | They went straight to the toilets and repaired their makeup and hair . |
| 13 | Detectives say a man followed her into the toilets and raped her . |
| 14 | In America small town-dumps have been closed , or sold by the cities that owned them to private operators . |
| 15 | As a result of these value conflicts litigants had no respect for the courts and manipulated them . |
| 16 | He called David and I in and said he had read the scripts and thought they were terrible . |
| 17 | The Navaho Jospehites were all young , as young as he had been when he joined the Sons and painted his face to strike a blow at the heart of the white man 's world . |
| 18 | And all the birds that saw it stopped singing upon the instant . |
| 19 | Even more than their magnificent appearance , I think it was the movement of the birds that captivated me — their ability to fly fast or , in the case of the owls , slow and in absolute silence , and pinpoint their prey with breathtaking accuracy , even in total darkness . |
| 20 | When he arrived moments later , he took one look at the X-rays and shook his head . |
| 21 | But NP subsequently denied that it had cancelled the plans and said it was merely reviewing its options . |
| 22 | Then in the early morning , just before dawn , they took them into the woods and shot them . |
| 23 | In the morning , just before it was light , they took them into the woods and shot them . |
| 24 | Thank you er , Gillian Shepherd told other E C Ministers that she and virtually every employer 's organization in Europe remained strongly opposed to the proposals and said it should be left to companies at local level to council workers . |
| 25 | Cameron , impressed but evidently rather baffled , minuted that he approved of the proposals and found them ‘ entirely in accord with what we wanted and what I thought was being practised ’ . |
| 26 | Yeah well we 'll make the appointment when we 've got the tablets and sorted it out . |
| 27 | More to put her at her ease again than for any other reason I picked up The Times and showed it to her . |
| 28 | He would have been at home as a sixteenth-century Elizabethan , categorizing people according to their essential natures ; choleric , melancholic , mercurial , saturnine , qualities mirroring the planets that governed their birth . |
| 29 | Then he took account of the finite size of the planets and treated them as spheres . |
| 30 | He made her a cup of tea while she sorted the washing , closed up the cases and pushed them into the cupboard under the stairs . |