Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Limousin and Charolais have between them absorbed the dual-purpose Marchois of La Creuse . |
| 3 | 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 ? ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | himself , the big , distracting man and two women , one of whom had the incisive skill of a surgeon . |
| 9 | The present study was therefore designed to recruit a large number of patients , all of whom received the same treatment , allowing unequivocal refutation of the prospectively defined hypotheses that a heavy physical workload and a high prior recurrence rate are associated with a decreased healing rate . |
| 10 | The election of October 1951 had brought 100 new Conservative MPs into parliament all of whom received the undivided attention of the lobbyists . |
| 11 | David Fairhall adds : The regular Panamanian forces , not all of whom opposed the American intervention according to the Pentagon , were vastly outnumbered by US troops . |
| 12 | Attached to many early Christian communities were groups of ascetics , both men and women , some of whom demonstrated the supernatural character of their chastity by the sexes cohabiting , yet without sexual contact . |
| 13 | The Republican and Democratic contests were won by President George Bush and Governor Bill Clinton respectively , both of whom ended the primary season with sufficient party convention delegates to be assured of winning the presidential nomination of their respective parties . |
| 14 | By this stage , many of them reflected the growing importance of the classical movement , depicting their subjects in classical settings , surrounded by symbolic fruits , flowers , and urns . |
| 15 | I was n't sure how many of them knew the actual meaning of the word . |
| 16 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 17 | And of those who firmly intended to vote Conservative more than half of them said the major reason for giving the Tories support was that ‘ they like the local candidate ’ . |
| 18 | None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter . |
| 19 | Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did . |
| 20 | The first of them resembled the still-existing cyanobacteria ( formerly known — wrongly — as ‘ blue green algae ’ ) . |
| 21 | They had reached the end of the ferry jetties and ahead of them lay the tightly-knit bulk of the town , its few colours beige , dun , ochre , brown and white — flattened by the sunlight . |
| 22 | The debate on these issues continued for several centuries and the proposed solutions were very varied , but all of them had the ultimate implication that only the civilized Christian Europeans deserved to be rated as true men in a fully human sense ; all other " men " being variously rated as sub-human animals , monsters , degenerate men , damned souls , or the product of a separate creation . |
| 23 | They did not pray two rak'ahs before making love , or perform wudu after intercourse ( perhaps because neither of them had the faintest idea what wudu might be ) , and they were woefully deficient in the sacrifice and dowry departments . |
| 24 | Two hundred and fifty came from Strathnaver and 104 of them had the same surname : William Mackay . |
| 25 | But that night , all four of them had the same dream … |
| 26 | ‘ Every single one of them had the same opinion as mine , ’ he said . |
| 27 | As Fael-Inis began to play , each of them drew a deep breath and surrendered , and each of them experienced the deepest contentment at hearing the silver pipes of enchantment . |
| 28 | But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands . |
| 29 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 30 | She never knew which one of them made the first move , but suddenly , unaccountably , she was in his arms , his hands pressing against her back to draw her closer still . |