Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wenlock Manor was some twelve miles out of Brighton , far enough away to discourage conference-going Tories , the more important of whom preferred to stay at the rebuilt Grand Hotel , and the more humble at sea-front bed-and-breakfasts . |
| 2 | Two of them managed to leap into the empty office as Jekub bowled past . |
| 3 | The two of them continued to stare at the group . |
| 4 | The partisans showed great courage , but some of them had to withdraw from the Parma Apennines down towards Tuscany . |
| 5 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 6 | The Typical Chinese Dishes with plenty of good hot coffee on top of them seemed to combine with the heating in the place to make me sleepy . |
| 7 | The two of them went to stand in the bow . |
| 8 | When it was refused , some of them tried to climb over the wall . |
| 9 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 10 | Far below London in size came the provincial capitals , the cities of Norwich , Bristol , York , Exeter , Newcastle upon Tyne and perhaps Salisbury and Coventry , each of which began to recover from the doldrums of the late-medieval recession during the middle years of Elizabeth 's reign . |
| 11 | ‘ Some of it seemed to cross into the Aids field , which had nothing to do with his brief at the Royal Free . ’ |
| 12 | The full impact of it seemed to come from the roof , and was so strong that she jerked up in bed . |
| 13 | There is now a wide variety of special hardware and software for handicapped people , much of it designed to work with the BBC , Archimedes and IBM PC-compatible computers commonly used in schools , though it is equally applicable to adults . |
| 14 | And all of us had to assemble in the servants ' hall for lunch . |
| 15 | One of us had to sit on the floor of the phone box while the other stood up and rested on the shelf where you open out the directories . |
| 16 | You know that that 's about all the room there was was honestly was a table and chairs and more often than not a couple of us had to sit on the stairs . |
| 17 | They paid the headman of the village five hundred rupees and all of us had to streak through the forest making as much noise as we possibly could to round up the game . |
| 18 | One night three of us decided to go to the cinema . |
| 19 | Two of us decided to walk along the road which led to the public causeway and another , even larger , pool . |
| 20 | Some of us decided to get into the social and talk to the men . |
| 21 | We neither of us liked to talk in the confined publicity of the train . |
| 22 | Of particular interest here is the fact that though the play itself died out , the characters from it continued to appear at the annual feast . |
| 23 | It awaits to be seen whether German social workers will find a way forward beyond the horizon drawn by this Act as they managed to do with the previous Act . |
| 24 | But our trouble was that to get to it we had to we had to walk across the recreation ground and there was the River Ouse The Ouse Dyke it was , and w we we could n't resist the temptation of jumping across this dyke you see ? |
| 25 | The year before he 'd been into the whole Absolute Beginners scene and everything around him had to date from the late ‘ fifties , early ‘ sixties . |