Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thus had little use for cinema which gave great weight to symbolism , and unfavourably contrasted symbolist poetry to the work of poets like Ezra Pound whose world operated , not through meaning , but through the ‘ direct impact of words ’ . |
| 2 | Nixon claimed that as President he had special executive privileges which allowed him to refuse access to the tapes . |
| 3 | After University he became National Officer of the British Mountaineering Council based in Manchester , and later Director of the International School of Mountaineering at Leysin in Switzerland . |
| 4 | After Bromsgrove they lost three games in a row , so it was important to get back to winning , against St Albans last Saturday then Netley 3-0 . |
| 5 | After Bromsgrove they lost three games in a row , so it was important to get back to winning , against St Albans last Saturday , then Netley 3-0 . |
| 6 | Er it 's er it 's a ex W D lens , after wartime they sold these things they sold them in catalogues and I sent of for this one , and it 's about a stone and a half in weight . |
| 7 | For year after year he worked all hours serving different governments and different ministers . |
| 8 | For lunch we had damp oat-cakes we 'd bought at the village shop . |
| 9 | Spoke to him about child who had epileptic fit in coach on journey to School this morning and he supplied further details . |
| 10 | For the educated mother in particular , it took a great deal of courage to reject a system of upbringing which combined quasi-religious appeals to ‘ duty ’ and ‘ rightness ’ and ‘ goodness ’ with a claim to be based on the rational attitudes which she herself , as a ‘ modern ’ woman , was supposed to have embraced . |
| 11 | We looked in some detail at some aspects of protection which included certain kinds of technical and formal performance , the indirect handling of painful subjects and projection , the latter including some aspects of the teacher 's most flexible strategy , teacher-in-role . |
| 12 | Of course they had some value , in an informal way , as precedents , but the precedent here might easily be not that non dubito is now admissible , but that some relaxation of wording is allowed where family property expectations are involved . |
| 13 | In the premier league it 's West Ham against Swindon at Upton Park … last season of course they faced each other in the first division … in London Town came out on top and it was this win that sparked their promotion run … so let's hope it 's lucky for them again |
| 14 | Erm but of course they did other work you know , which was of a general character . |
| 15 | Well when we came here of course we had certain furniture and we just sort of er , er and we , I do n't know what other people did , we just erm furnished a room at a time until we got |
| 16 | Er as you got older of course you got different meals , but as youngsters we ate a terrific amount of bread and jam . |
| 17 | ‘ Of course you needed more money . |
| 18 | Maire Carroll , serving in the shop and hating it , felt a firm and vicious sense of satisfaction over the fate of Eve and Benny , but of course she pretended great care and concern . |
| 19 | Of course I had this spell er er do n't forget I was five years as a prisoner of war , and a lot of interest because I was a union member pra b previous to that you see ? |
| 20 | Like the woman 's no good Of course I told some things about Wendy . |
| 21 | In a low and antagonistic frame of mind she accepted that Ace was never going to have any time for her . |
| 22 | In my rather disgruntled frame of mind I rebelled that night against the long way round . |
| 23 | To this extent , in establishing the service , certain governmental and educational authorities were signalling with all the pomp and circumstance of legislation that youth did constitute a separate and , in important respects , an immature source of labour which required special treatment . |
| 24 | Concomitant with the mystical theology inherited by the medieval English mystics , and also governing their thought and expression was a dialectic about the mode of living which enabled mystical experience and a vocabulary to express it . |
| 25 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 26 | Cathedrals are also , to a small extent , helping to revive the tradition of patronage which produced such riches in the past . |
| 27 | Farmers throughout the region have welcomed the end to the months of uncertainty which surrounded recent EC talks to reform the community 's farming policy . |
| 28 | In the five days of violence which resulted official estimates suggested that at least 30 people died ( including one MP ) and several hundred were injured . |
| 29 | After this assault Mosley reputedly was forced to discipline his own followers in order to maintain order in the BUF , and to discourage further acts of violence which invited retaliatory action by the authorities . |
| 30 | The established system conceived of marriage as an act of incorporation which maintained social status ; it kept the family name from being lost and the family property from being distributed . |