Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electrodes were so positioned that current flowing through them caused a particular pleasure . |
| 2 | Moreover , advancing west and northwest respectively , as the two armies were , produced a potentially calamitous separation of the two forces , for between them lay the Masurian Lakes , a complex of waters stretching some 80km/50mls north to south . |
| 3 | The Regent diamond of 410 carats recovered from Golconda in 1701 was soon acquired by Governor Pitt , grandfather and great-grandfather of men who between them despoiled a great part of the French empire . |
| 4 | Balancing between them took a great deal of agility . |
| 5 | While it would be dangerous to build too much analysis on the characteristics of the three main public representatives of the DUP , Paisley , Robinson and McQuade between them represented the full spectrum of DUP support . |
| 6 | Perhaps in the matter of excitement Davis and Baker between them had a special way of making the blood dance , but ( listen to the Overture , for instance ) Nelson achieves a fine clarity of texture and , even more than Davis , he makes the phrases ‘ speak ’ . |
| 7 | The Limousin and Charolais have between them absorbed the dual-purpose Marchois of La Creuse . |
| 8 | ‘ This is a matter of considerable significance to us as three of the five districts in West Yorkshire ( Bradford , Kirklees and Leeds Metropolitan Districts ) have between them received an annual average of about £10 million over the last five years — a substantial figure . |
| 9 | The look that passed between them showed a certain amount of respect but a little mistrust as well . |
| 10 | For somewhat different reasons in each case , there is not entailment between I chose the first rose on the list and I chose the first flower on the list , nor between Mary was disappointed to receive a rose and Mary was disappointed to receive a flower ( perhaps she was expecting an orchid ? ) . |
| 11 | Although we did n't arrive until nearly midnight , it was still an early call next morning for breakfast , after which came the tricky task of packing our saddle-bags . |
| 12 | Naturally , the finish judges had to be consulted , and after what seemed a prolonged pow-wow , they came up with an answer . |
| 13 | After what seemed a long time , but was in fact only seconds , an almost inaudible whisper issued into the room . |
| 14 | Bishop made Saints ' opening touchdown in the 46th minute after what seemed an eternal wait and then George Mann crashed over before Warrington regrouped . |
| 15 | After what seemed an interminable period of tiptoeing down the road I managed to hitchhike a lift on the roof of a logging truck . |
| 16 | After what seemed an interminable silence he spoke , ‘ Let us pray . ’ |
| 17 | She says it slipped and set off the magic eye which set the baler off which crushed the bottom part of my leg causing me to lose the tissue and muscle from my ankle up to my shin . |
| 18 | Later , Adam lazily stared past Miranda to the windows — twin rectangles of blue sky , between which hung an old mirror in an elaborately carved mahogany frame . |
| 19 | The magnetron , as it then existed , was a hollow copper block pumped out to a high vacuum , through which ran a heated wire . |
| 20 | More than one in 10 are now on the dole but the green shoots of recovery are showing through which gave a welcome boost to prices . |
| 21 | He had two daughters , a little older than my mother , both of whom attended a secondary school . |
| 22 | We were very pleased and honoured to receive a visit from the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress , both of whom displayed a keen interest in our work and were even inveigled , by , into performing with the ‘ Dopple Kloppers ’ , being taught at that session ! |
| 23 | She had helped enthusiastically with the costumes , making for Mary a trailing blue robe of cornflower taffeta , her own Cambridge May Ball dress sheared apart at the seams , lending or donating bright belts and beads to deck out the three kings , one of whom wore a peacock-feathered turban made of the shot-silk stole she had worn with that dance dress . |
| 24 | Bliss made the introductions , beginning with the taller of the men , both of whom wore the nondescript dark suits traditionally favoured by high-ranking police officers . |
| 25 | Prior to the conclusion of the Bensonhurst trial , in the early hours of May 13 a gang in the predominantly black neighbourhood of Brooklyn assaulted three Vietnamese men , one of whom suffered a fractured skull . |
| 26 | Apart from his engravings , for which he became particularly well known , he was an excellent portrait painter and his painting of four children — one of whom became the fifth Duke of Devonshire — in the grounds of Chiswick House , probably attracted him to Chiswick , an area considered by many notable persons at that time , as very healthy . |
| 27 | The foreign ministry in St Petersburg was in the first decades of the century ludicrously overstaffed : under Alexander I it gave ostensible employment to well over 700 people ( including the poet Pushkin ) , many of whom had no real duties whatever . |
| 28 | The subjects , all of whom had no previous history of reflux disease or gastric disturbances , showed a wide range of behaviour . |
| 29 | Their attack focused on St Margaret 's School in Cricklewood , where they found ten refugee girls , three of whom had a religious background . |
| 30 | It was these brilliant architectural triumphs which so much impressed foreign visitors , many of whom had a professional interest and who came to learn as well as admire . |