Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electrodes were so positioned that current flowing through them caused a particular pleasure . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Balancing between them took a great deal of agility . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | The look that passed between them showed a certain amount of respect but a little mistrust as well . |
| 7 | Naturally , the finish judges had to be consulted , and after what seemed a prolonged pow-wow , they came up with an answer . |
| 8 | After what seemed a long time , but was in fact only seconds , an almost inaudible whisper issued into the room . |
| 9 | Bishop made Saints ' opening touchdown in the 46th minute after what seemed an eternal wait and then George Mann crashed over before Warrington regrouped . |
| 10 | After what seemed an interminable period of tiptoeing down the road I managed to hitchhike a lift on the roof of a logging truck . |
| 11 | After what seemed an interminable silence he spoke , ‘ Let us pray . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The magnetron , as it then existed , was a hollow copper block pumped out to a high vacuum , through which ran a heated wire . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had two daughters , a little older than my mother , both of whom attended a secondary school . |
| 16 | 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 ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Their attack focused on St Margaret 's School in Cricklewood , where they found ten refugee girls , three of whom had a religious background . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The master who went abroad had three servants , each of whom had a certain amount of ability . |
| 22 | As a further example , the chunk could be used by two users , one of whom had a small default font , and the other a large : again the size of each Title would adapt accordingly . |
| 23 | Commercially available expert system shells have been used since most of the expert systems have been developed by engineering tradesmen , few of whom had a strong computing background . |
| 24 | Jane was thirty-three and had two children , one of whom had a slight speech defect which made Jane very interested in speech therapy . |
| 25 | Accompanying these kids were what appeared to be three extravagant South American transvestites in dresses , rouge and lipstick , one of whom had a used tampon on a piece of string around her neck . |
| 26 | There were , in fact , many Irish Americans in United Motors at high management levels , all of whom had a nostalgic affection for the ‘ auld counthrie ’ , and indeed for anything Irish ; but that was because most of them had never actually been there . |
| 27 | A total of 2958 never smokers in 1988 were surveyed in 1990 , 2924 ( 99% ) of whom gave a valid response for smoking status . |
| 28 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 29 | Although South Dakota carried little electoral weight , either nationally or in terms of its proportion of delegates sent to the nominating convention , it had considerable significance for the Democratic contest in that it was adjacent to the native states of both Harkin and Kerrey , each of whom needed a good showing after their disappointing results in New Hampshire . |
| 30 | The next two owners were wealthy Shrewsbury drapers , each of whom lost a great deal of money when their London connections went bankrupt and were forced to sell again . |