Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 32 | While I do not dismiss the care and treatment I have received during those admissions , I did not have to spend many weeks in the ‘ old bins ’ to become aware of their shortcomings as therapeutic environments . |
| 33 | FOR EXAMPLE , LAST WEEK I WAS LISTENING to my favourite recorded of Paganini 's First Violin Concerto , which I have treasured for many years , largely due to the soloists extraordinary playing . |
| 34 | Well we got through several toasters in a year . |
| 35 | And you know they ca n't go , this one ca n't go earlier than that one because we 've got the sequence and so if we got through these steps , I think that those steps are the same steps that we go through on any project . |
| 36 | Is the current illness the consequence of side-effects from medication or treatment prescribed for former illnesses ? |
| 37 | The second is that the rules may be those that apply to formal , written language but they may then be prescribed for all circumstances . |
| 38 | Now you ca n't possibly test a medicine on ten thousand people before you start to sell it , so that sort of risk , as rare a risk as that , will only be picked up when the medicine has actually been in use and on the market and been properly prescribed for some years , and what we are doing now , and what is particularly interesting , is to start to use computers to pick up these adverse reactions so that we know much more quickly in future if a medicine is doing any harm and we can either stop prescribing it for the people who are going to suffer from it , and that 's the most likely thing , or else take it off the market altogether if it 's if we do n't if we ca n't pick out the people who might be at risk . |
| 39 | Subject to a special fee being prescribed for some applications , the plaint fee includes all other interlocutory applications ( see Appendix II to County Court Fees Order 1982 as amended — at back of book ) . |
| 40 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 41 | It would only make for more difficulties later on . |
| 42 | Like many others , it too had its great hall in which the classes did sometimes mingle for such festivities as Mr Lyle 's Christmas celebration . |
| 43 | One of the best places to rummage for these antiques is Antarctica . |
| 44 | For secondly he sits through many lunches , discussing life and love and never mentioning football . |
| 45 | After fumbling for several minutes , his arms aching desperately , he was able to push up the catch . |
| 46 | BOOK FOR BOTH SHOWS AND SAVE MONEY |
| 47 | European astronomers have collaborated for many years through the European Space Agency , which provides some space-science programme . |
| 48 | The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea . |
| 49 | Prometheus and Frankenstein are both punished for these deeds but Prometheus does n't die . |
| 50 | Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years . |
| 51 | It is assumed that the personal and social significance of transport in general and driving in particular develops rapidly between the ages of 13 and 19 , and that the knowledge , attitudes and judgements relating to driving that develop during these years will have an important bearing on how young drivers behave on the road . |
| 52 | In the east , many old Dwarf holds were cleared out , and the power of the Orcs was broken for many years . |
| 53 | However , new inequalities could arise between those patients with the resources and knowledge to seek care outside their district and other patients without such resources and/or knowledge . |
| 54 | When I was convalescing after that last virus , my Good Samaritans in Cotherstone arranged for me to have the Meals on Wheels service for several weeks . |
| 55 | Would the average person , who never thinks about such things and is unfit and unsteady , have survived ? |
| 56 | As he grows older he thinks about fewer things — he is now mainly occupied with the Common Market , the cold war and the Atlantic Alliance . |
| 57 | That 's all he ever thinks about these days . ’ |
| 58 | All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes . |
| 59 | ‘ The game is about guts and determination and the drive not to lose , and Sarah has the instincts to go for those shots , ’ said Jones . |
| 60 | BBC engineers are divided between hacking a Scandinavian proposal to standardise across Europe on eight-channel sound in a gaggle of different languages or , as many want , to go for fewer channels carrying the kind of sound quality available on the new digital discs that are now in British shops . |