Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To prepare for this he had moved many of his photographs , pictures , books and other possessions from London so that the house , though not looking exactly as it did when he was there , became a showplace bursting with Shaviana . |
| 2 | After that she refused to shed another tear . |
| 3 | Out of that she had to pay all expenses , including animal feed and coal , which left around five pounds a month for food . |
| 4 | first of all we decided to do this |
| 5 | Whoever was about to emerge from beneath the dripping straw roof of this tiny hut on this minute hamlet on the eastern edge of this unknown volcanic islet was the first person in the world to rise on this February Saturday morning : Homo Pacificus , the symbol of all I had travelled half a world to see . |
| 6 | In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby . |
| 7 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 8 | The hill that was waiting for me across the next two miles of nothingness was typical of those I had climbed that day — no more than a hundred feet high , with a gradual slope . |
| 9 | The reality of the narrow market town belied his long-nurtured recollections of it , and some of those he had loved most were now gone . |
| 10 | In the evening the SS troops came to the homes of those who had organized such a happy day . |
| 11 | The defence given by some of those who had authorised this unparalleled act of iconoclasm in modern England , while clearly sincere , points to the narrow perspectives that had allowed the events to occur . |
| 12 | Her Royal Highness went round the room meeting many of those who had supported this Gala evening . |
| 13 | So now the children of the dispossessed were attacking the children of those who had brought such misery to their Palestinian parents . |
| 14 | This was particularly embarrassing for Bolger as he had been in the forefront of those who had castigated former Labour Prime Minister David Lange for bowing to French economic pressure by releasing Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur , the two saboteurs who were tried and sentenced for the crime . |
| 15 | Only one symptom , a persistent cough , was reported more often for those who had not been in a residential home — 24 per cent compared with 10 per cent of those who had spent some time in such a home . |
| 16 | This showed that in practice relatively few , one in ten , of those who had spent any time in residential homes were thought to have been admitted ‘ too late ’ ; this proportion was a quarter for those who had not spent any time in a residential home . |
| 17 | The data seems to support the first belief : of those who had had some experience of unemployment in the previous five years , 0.480 said they would be prepared to break the law , whereas only 0.300 of those who had no such experience were ( a difference of +0.180 ) . |
| 18 | Increasingly Nonconformity was becoming a religion of ‘ gentlemen ’ or at least of those who wished to become such , and gentlemen preferred dignity and decorum in religious worship . |
| 19 | Several of those who testified laid much of the blame on Kemp 's predecessor as HUD Secretary , Samuel R. Pierce . |
| 20 | In the summer of 1953 he had suffered some sort of breakdown , or nervous crisis , which had been caused ( one view ) or exacerbated ( a more informed view ) by his bizarre relations with the ex-biology teacher at Blesford Ride , the public school where his father , and Stephanie 's father , taught . |
| 21 | In the summer of 1945 he began to make more use of the enormous scope that the interim regime gave him to shape the future of the country . |
| 22 | In their study of the civic culture , Almond and Verba found that there were differences in attitude toward government between those with different levels of education , and between those who had received some formal education and those who had received none . |
| 23 | The problem of what to do about those who happened to own this ‘ natural monopoly ’ , thus levying a toll on the rest of the economy , therefore seemed relatively manageable . |
| 24 | The court appeared to disagree with Goulding J at first instance in that it seemed to say that confidential information which can not be described as a " business secret " ( in the narrow sense of that phrase ) could not be protected by an express clause . |
| 25 | In 1991 we decided to end this duopoly . |
| 26 | A few had been to other universities , to Sandhurst , Dartmouth or an agricultural college , making 190 in all who had had some form of higher education . |
| 27 | The problems which faced the Church now were not , Theodora thought , so very different from those which had faced those young priests for whom the Reverend Thomas Henry Newcome had founded St Sylvester 's in the 1860s . |
| 28 | In particular it wanted to ensure that British nuclear thinking , planning , targeting and developments as a whole evolved along lines which were compatible with and were harnessed as far as possible to fit in with its own requirements . |
| 29 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
| 30 | Prior to this I had used many strange concoctions for the hopeful parents to swim in , even a brew made with oak leaves . |