Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowds jeered and mocked , not knowing that he was the king of the universe and the deliverer of the captives . |
| 2 | Part of the accounts went as follows : |
| 3 | She sat back on her heels and watched with pleasure as the flames surged and roared and the twigs sparked and crackled up into the wide opening of the chimney . |
| 4 | Every time one of us leaned forward for the salt the flames wavered and curtsied with ridiculous deference , like three nervous waitresses . |
| 5 | The Burgundians thought that eating too many potatoes caused leprosy , the Prussians believed that they were responsible for the dreaded consumption , whilst the Russians simply said that they were food sent from the devil . |
| 6 | But the Germans went and got him . ’ |
| 7 | We stopped the boat and drifted for a while , and the birds relaxed and moved back towards Bound Skerry the rock in a long line — which did the trick ! |
| 8 | The birds squawked and flapped , and the very top of the bush seemed to be flicked by an invisible hand which knocked a few shreds of leaf out into the air . |
| 9 | The amount of RNA synthesized was unrelated to motor activity or any measure of stress that we could identify ( for instance how much the birds peeped or twittered ) , but it was strongly correlated with their preference score ; that is , the more the chicks had learned about the flashing light and preferred it to any alternative , the more RNA was synthesized in their forebrain roof . |
| 10 | ‘ The holidaymakers were having a party and one of the prisoners went and asked them to keep the noise down . |
| 11 | Many of the prisoners smiled and exchanged a few words either directly with the governor or with people in our party . |
| 12 | As with Auer 's lace , the verisimilitude was striking and The Times reported that touch alone could convince the beholder that the minutely detailed weeds with their infinitely varied tints were not actual specimens from the sea shore.2 |
| 13 | Sleep came not near my couch — while the hours waned and waned away . |
| 14 | She was sitting bolt upright on the thick tug which lay before the fireplace in which the coals glowed and flamed . |
| 15 | When a shaft of sunlight crossed their ranks the steel heads of the lances glittered and defined them clearly . |
| 16 | A fifteen-year-old in grey flannel wandering around London in school holidays with an adolescent 's apocalyptic vision , praying that he would lose his virginity before the bombs came and blasted him to oblivion . |
| 17 | For example , in the fastest city of them all — which turned out to be Boston , not New York , which was third after Buffalo — the researchers noted that to get the exact time of day the telephone company requires you to dial N-E-R-V-O-U-S . |
| 18 | The chain joining the handcuffs chinked and pulled at her wrist as he moved , and resentment won . |
| 19 | He shouted out the lyrics in a coarse powerful voice , and the musicians smiled and redoubled their efforts to keep pace with him . |
| 20 | There was a glass-fronted office on one side of the entrance where the SPs sat and kept an eye on all departures . |
| 21 | The caps sputtered and crackled . |
| 22 | On the river the vessels creaked and groaned as a gust of wind caught them . |
| 23 | The curlews swooped and circled . |
| 24 | The drivers shouted and leaned forward and started doing things to switches . |
| 25 | Now the cars thumped and bucked on the ramp , the uptown stampede from the traps of the underpass . |
| 26 | Swiftly the skaters circled and arced and sashayed , firing their sprays of lethal stars . |
| 27 | Over and over again , for twenty-five minutes , the heads rose and fell before the final triumphant cry of Allah hu-Akbar ! |
| 28 | We went to Jason 's birthday party and the kids sat and ate mountains of gooey cake , chocolate bars and ice-cream for about two hours while all the adults smoked over them . |
| 29 | The guards nodded and ushered Benny out . |
| 30 | It would not be expected to depend particularly on the frequency , the rate at which the waves rose and fell . |