Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] i [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got two young sons as well , erm they two got took off me into foster care , and that was when I really had to decide it was the either the drugs or the children . |
| 2 | Other jobs and dignities , including the leadership of the House , the chairmanship of the party , the conduct of Central African affairs , the oversight of European negotiations , the first Secretaryship of State , and even the Deputy Premiership , were to be added unto me for varying periods in the years that followed ; and each time Macmillan went abroad-notably during his Eastern tour in 1958 and his African trip in 1960-I was automatically invited to act as head of the government . |
| 3 | When I heard he was missing , I did what he would have done for me in similar circumstances . |
| 4 | Idealised versions of life in the USA , for example , were often presented to me by young people who had watched many films and television programmes , as well as talking with foreigners . |
| 5 | The links between what the medical profession had done to me in British patriarchy and the cruelties and outrages perpetuated by every patriarchy throughout the world were glaringly obvious . |
| 6 | Several correspondents have written to me at different times expressing the wish that we join forces in order to become more effective . |
| 7 | He had not written anything he had not already said to me at different times ’ . ’ |
| 8 | But I have here a list of names supplied to me by General Friant . |
| 9 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 10 | But even this sad circumstance was overshadowed for me by political events of the week . |
| 11 | Several former masons , or close relatives of those still in the Brotherhood , have spoken to me in similar ways . |
| 12 | I understand from the figures given to me by British Coal that more than 1,600 men are employed in private mines . |
| 13 | I have also had it explained to me by other feminists campaigning for equality of treatment of wives under social security laws , that their concern was only with the wives of claimants , not of company directors — thus accepting the DHSS principle that wives should be means tested on their husbands ' resources , regardless of the extent of their access to them . |
| 14 | ‘ The questions that are asked of me by Asian people sometimes are the questions that are asked of Karim when he portrays Changez as a characters in his own play , ’ he explains . |
| 15 | Alan Harding , having worked with me on numerous occasions , knows my limitations and has allowed plenty of time . |
| 16 | It was not delivered to me in clear words , but in some sort of squeaky Other Side music with which he aided my understanding . |
| 17 | I was sitting on my fishing stool wearing winter clothes , and a sailcloth robe thrown over me for extra warmth . |
| 18 | Despite that , I managed to speak 322 words in the time left to me by Labour Members and Ministers . |
| 19 | I 've had newspaper cutting sent to me by other people . |