Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Only if the chief constable expressed his order in terms such as that he considered any injury to his men to constitute serious public disorder might the courts be prepared to intervene .
2 Thank you chairman , I , I second er 's motion , erm trying to be not political about this I got some figures from the er county council which indicate that from the first of April ninety-two to the thirty-first of December ninety-two eighty-six members attended committee meetings of which they were not members .
3 To allow for this we provided several opportunities in the questionnaire for teachers to make additional individual observations .
4 For this he paid ten pence a year at Michaelmas and performed a number of other duties on the lord 's land and paid tithes to the church .
5 Mr Stan Cardwell MBE , co-founder of the North-East ramblers ' association , said : ‘ His style was one of cooperation , not confrontation , and through this he made many friends , not least among the farming community , where he was regarded highly for his expertise on rights of way matters .
6 After that they made better progress and managed to slip undetected out into the emptiness .
7 Then after that they bought another tug called , then they had another one called the , that was a diesel tug .
8 A local craft shop took them and after that she had regular orders for them from outlets further afield .
9 The next day he motored to four miles south of Hereford to lunch with an old cousin , and the day after that he attended two funerals , both of ‘ old Worcestershire friends who died on Christmas Day ’ .
10 After that he sat all day by the fire in the private room .
11 After this they employed Welsh builders and had everything sent over with them including paint , sandpaper and Polyfilla .
12 After this I bought some contact magazines .
13 After this he spent long periods in Madeira until his death in 1907 .
14 For a period after this he stopped inviting Bobby for meals at Lyons and took Eric Verrico instead .
15 AFTER THIS SHE HAD ODD FLASHES OF ‘ CLAIRVOYANCE ’ .
16 ‘ I think that certainly helped in preparing me for the jump — after all I had three years to think about it , ’ said Nigel .
17 The only kind of music he liked was sung music and of that he liked all sorts — opera , lieder , folk , country , rock , jazz , soul , the blues .
18 After a week of that I decided one night to leave in the morning .
19 He served Rome well but because of this he received hostile opposition from some Jews , especially the Pharisees .
20 First of all we wanted that product to be totally open , and I 'll qualify in a minute or two a little bit more what I mean by totally open .
21 Oh , er first of all I enjoyed that record of Adam Faith 's .
22 Erm look I 'll put June on from Mansfield first of all I wanted thirty seconds worth of famous dogs cos we had er why Nottinghamshire 's dogs are too dumpy earlier on did n't we ? .
23 In the 1840s most of those who acquired this land were British , including some civil servants .
24 Several of those who shared those discussions are now big names in the art market .
25 I 'm sure all of those who attended this year 's rally will join me in a sincere vote of thanks to Mick and Julie Turrell .
26 But we were not taken into the confidence of those who determined media-generated arguments between agendaless and ideologically bankrupt parties .
27 Of this latter group , 39 per cent were classified in manual occupations , compared to 33 per cent for shareowners as a whole and 28 per cent of those who owned non-privatisation shares .
28 Once the bane of those who owned glassfibre yachts , osmosis can now be dealt with using a number of techniques .
29 When faced with the seemingly inevitable growth of military authority backed up by frenetic ultranationalism and repression of those who opposed Japanese imperialism in Asia , the Emperor system provided the core values to justify collective effort and sacrifice .
30 Ken Livingstone , now a humble Labour backbencher , was leader of the GLC and guru of those who believed rainbow-coalition politics was coming to Britain .
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