Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as the continents grew they gleaned more of the carbon from the oceans and atmosphere . |
| 2 | ‘ But all the experts told us to stay at Bart 's . |
| 3 | The monkey won after the experts buried themselves in their portfolios while the chimp , called Ola , threw darts at names of companies listed on the Stockholm exchange . |
| 4 | The experts got their calculations wrong and the daily influx into London is vastly greater at the end than the start of the eighties , or any prediction forecast . |
| 5 | The predicted expansion never came and it may be argued that Kielder , and the flooding of the valley , was a disastrous example of the worst kind of crystal-ball gazing so frequently employed to force unwelcome developments on an unwilling population ; and once again , the experts got it wrong . |
| 6 | From the moment Galwey won his first international cap against Namibia two years ago the experts claimed he was too short for an international lock forward , too slow to be an effective No 8 . |
| 7 | The crowds made it painfully obvious who was the new star of the show the Princess of Wales . |
| 8 | This was the theme tune at last month 's revolutionary rallies , where the crowds sang it with great gusto and clapped to the jaunty rhythm of its concluding lines . |
| 9 | The crowds loved him and he wanted to be rewarded accordingly . |
| 10 | The crowds loved his clowning , and he confirmed his ability to sweat it out for hour after hour . |
| 11 | After Adelaide , Bodyline was not exploited with quite the same intensity , but the crowds retained their fury at the mere sight of a ‘ bumper ’ . |
| 12 | The muffled men with the lanterns lighted their way into the house up a vast perron , where once guests had sat in the sun before luncheon , and on into the hall , music belching into its emptiness . |
| 13 | ‘ One of the labourers recognised him . |
| 14 | ‘ The letter simply thanked me for what I had done and the senders signed themselves only as Berend 's Family . ’ |
| 15 | It was always farming circulars for her father , copies of the newspaper to which he occasionally contributed articles on sheep , seldom anything for her mother beyond invitations the senders knew they were safe from her accepting , or appeals for money from charities , the Scottish Women 's Institute , funds to save a painting for the Glasgow Art Gallery . |
| 16 | Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities . |
| 17 | The pickets knew what to expect : they 'd been warned it could turn nasty , and it did . |
| 18 | It would be too bad if the Panzers overran our positions and we were found to be in our stocking feet . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ I was prepared to set aside time at a future meeting for full discussion , but the clubs felt they did n't want to even talk about the issue any further . |
| 20 | As an 11-handicapper who does not play quite as often as she would like , I found the clubs gave me more consistency and greater ‘ feel ’ . |
| 21 | The clubs helped them recruit supporters . ’ |
| 22 | There was a sort of an explosion , not very loud , the flames took my back . |
| 23 | We 'll be going now , ’ the mallards told her . |
| 24 | The mantri looked it up and down from the doorway without saying a word . |
| 25 | It probably was n't practical to rig up a short tape belay and , in any case , the climbers felt they were down , with the climbing virtually finished . |
| 26 | A young artist , the mines fascinated him . |
| 27 | When the price of graphite fell in 1900 and the mines closed they returned to their villages ; one result was an increase in the number of cases of cattle stealing in the Western and Southern Provinces of fifty-six per cent over 1899 . |
| 28 | The landlord , who felt that the explanation — indeed , to all intents and purposes , the apology — he had made for his wife was more than enough to compensate for any gentlemanly inconvenience , was about to get back to his work in the fields when his visitor 's too casually direct questions about the mines charged him to stay . |
| 29 | ‘ We shall not need to use that formation again , ’ Thorfinn said , and saw that the forest was quiet and the scouts had nothing to disturb them before turning to walk to his men . |
| 30 | The scouts flourished their red blankets to announce General Howard 's approach several days later . |