Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between them they commanded 120 seats in the 212-member Chamber of Representatives , but fell well short of the two-thirds majority required to approve any constitutional changes . |
| 2 | In 1835 she teamed up with two other pauper girls , Eliza Johnson and Ann Yerbury , and between them they occupied three tenements belonging to Thomas Edwards on Naish 's Street . |
| 3 | The constable was soon joined by his colleagues and between them they obtained detailed descriptions of the man who had dashed from the direction of the bakery . |
| 4 | Penny went shopping with Rowan , into one of those very expensive boutiques shops , yeah , and between them they bought this dress , and when they got it home , Rowan 's mother would n't let her have it because it was too revealing and so Penny was stuck with it and then her mother would n't let her have it either , but the shop would n't refund , it would only give them credit so she 's got all this money to spend in the shop . |
| 5 | In seconds he found himself hovering over a group of them which swayed this way and that beneath him in the dark , not nice and firm like the dead branch set in his cage . |
| 6 | Those of you who attended this year 's day given by seemed to have gained a lot from it , so what else would you like ? |
| 7 | Thanks also to the 400 of you who entered last month 's word search . |
| 8 | Well , like most of you I spent four weeks during the general election out on the doorstep . |
| 9 | On this particular day , they had been shooting at Taos and at the end of it they dropped some acid and took off with two other friends to visit the nearby tomb of D.H . |
| 10 | We could name friends of ours who died that way , if you |
| 11 | But then here we are twenty thirty years on and those of us who had that upbringing about the purity of that Royal Family that 's suddenly been confronted with this image that 's anything but that and you know and I 'm , and I , and it 's been and now you have the tabloids saying giving you pictorial evidence of its any , any but that and so that whole erm image , view that a lot of Britons grew up with has gone , it 's been |
| 12 | Yet there were those who moved easily around the margins , and I am certain the profound effects of this liminal time extended to more than a few of us who made this transition into structural limbo . |
| 13 | In addition to these sort of dreams of tomorrow 's world , we also need to have dreams of tomorrow 's social conditions : the needs and requirements of the young people who are making their way in industry today , as opposed to those of us who joined many years ago . |
| 14 | It was through you I got this chance , why should n't I share the benefits with you ? |
| 15 | Except ex-convent girls like me who recognised sexual tension when they saw it . |
| 16 | Like them she hated false endings , dishonest resolutions , a pretence that the half-told tale is finished : ‘ This is n't the whole story : this is n't my statement . |
| 17 | Beneath it he wore black velvet leggings , and his feet were encased in black slippers , decorated with gold embroidery . |
| 18 | And we did get on reasonably well with the management then , u until we used to run into trouble of course , and er the er nineteen twenty one strike , I can vividly remember that , it was a glorious summer , dead against us nobody wanted any coal and it You had the It gave th the management the opportunity of selling all this All the old stock all the rubbish and everything . |
| 19 | When he first came to live with me he showed some envy of his young brother Graham 's success as a soprano in the local eisteddfodau , the Welsh competitive festivals . |
| 20 | When she went home to tea with them she ate delicious food . |
| 21 | When the household took on a maid , Simenon began an affair with her which lasted 15 years before his wife found out . |
| 22 | When I played with him he enacted pretend battles between warring camps of soldiers . |
| 23 | With it he brought good news to first-time buyers , who could save up to £600 on the purchase of their first home . |
| 24 | Tales like this inspired him to go and explore for himself ; and apart from them he had another reason . |
| 25 | Yanto Gates broke through the blackthorn hedge which separated the Severn bank from the adjacent Berkeley to Gloucester canal towpath , and surveyed the scene before him He loved this river , but tonight , bathed in this unusually bright moonlight , it moved him to the point of goose pimples . |
| 26 | In it he said that man 's control over the world — steam , explosives , atoms and space — has outrun his power over himself to use that command wisely . |
| 27 | The case arose after Jeffrey M. Masson , a psychoanalyst , attempted to sue a journalist , Janet Malcolm , for writing an article about him which included several quotations which were not among the transcripts of the tape-recorded interviews which she had conducted with him . |
| 28 | Now realizing that he was more approachable and understanding than I had supposed , I felt an affection for him which increased each time I met him . |
| 29 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
| 30 | There 's something about her which stopped other people saying ‘ what a nice dress ’ , or ‘ you did well on television yesterday ’ . |