Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction . |
| 2 | But at least he had released her from that disturbing contact with his wide , strong chest and firm encircling arms , and the physical contact between them had brought one thing home to her very clearly — such a thing must definitely not happen again , or these next months would be utterly impossible . |
| 3 | After what had happened last time , he 'd need to earn her trust before he could assume it . |
| 4 | Two patients were taking antihypertensive drugs ( one captopril and frusemide and the other methyldopa ) , one of whom had impaired renal function and had required laser therapy for retinopathy . |
| 5 | This group comprised 25 patients ( 12 men and 13 women ) with a mean age of 51 years ( range 30–74 ) , all of whom had documented chronic liver disease ( clinical , biochemical , and histological criteria ) with patient portal vein as shown radiologically . |
| 6 | This ‘ literary ’ slant to the drama 's content is an important contrast with all previous pioneers , most of whom had given little attention to content . |
| 7 | These great Quaker figures , both of whom had played leading roles in the anti-slavery movement , founded the Aborigines Protection Society in the early 1830 . |
| 8 | Twelve patients with ulcerative colitis ( eight pancolitis and four left sided colitis ; age 22–70 years ; five were on sulphasalazine and two on prednisolone 10 and 30 mg ) and 15 patients with Crohn 's disease ( one of whom had undergone ileal resection ) ( six ileal and pancolitis , one left sided colitis , six ileal and two small intestinal ; age 18–70 years ; 13 were on no treatment , one on 10 mg prednisolone and one on sulphasalazine ) were studied . |
| 9 | Six priests took part in the Mass all of whom had had close links with him during his ministry . |
| 10 | Closed as a church in 1970 , it had passed through several owners , all of whom had had different plans for the building , the final one being to open it as a World War II museum . |
| 11 | I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling . |
| 12 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 13 | The sentences of many of them had expired 17 years ago . |
| 14 | By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | At first they had sat directly opposite him , but as the train travelled through the subterranean tunnel one of them had moved three seats to his left . |
| 16 | Neither of them had breakfasted that morning . |
| 17 | A survey of Aberdeen University students conducted by Peter McKellar showed that about two thirds of them had experienced these sensations , which were slightly more often auditory sensations than visual ones . |
| 18 | At the end of that time , each one of them had experienced unpleasant symptoms ; some became hostile and argumentative ; some had panic attacks and nightmares ; all of them found their attention span had grown shorter and they were finding it more difficult to remember things . |
| 19 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 20 | More thoughtful than either of them had seemed last night . |
| 21 | Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work . |
| 22 | A couple of them had produced flaming torches from nowhere and were brandishing them with all the zeal of a party of drunken Transylvanian peasants storming Castle Frankenstein during an electrical storm . |
| 23 | Some of them had abandoned front rooms and virtually none opened front windows . |
| 24 | Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ? |
| 25 | Six weeks before and immediately after the closedown was assumed to be a more stressful time for the 100 men than one and two years later when 90 per cent of them had found alternative employment . |
| 26 | Four of them had had adverse reactions and in one patient cereals had not yet been introduced to the diet . |
| 27 | One of them had had white hair or , Matthew had remarked , it might have been a wig . |
| 28 | ‘ My lads did all that could be asked of them , especially as a couple of them had to work all night in order to get time off to play . |
| 29 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 30 | None of them seemed to set much store by where the Toraja themselves say they came from . |