Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a challenge ; not for nothing had Mrs Lorimer been a formidable ARP warden in the war , and later a JP . |
| 2 | But not for nothing had Max Klein spent the best years of his youth and early manhood at country fairs and markets learning to give as good as he got . |
| 3 | Not for nothing did Sue Ellen 's hair flop when she became an alcoholic . |
| 4 | Fiji stood tall while all about them went slip-sliding away . |
| 5 | INDUSTRIALISTS in the US hope that a new research facility providing high-energy radiation will recover for them lost ground in areas as diverse as microcircuitry and metals processing . |
| 6 | Nor was the industrial landscape represented solely in the great towns , for between them stretched miles of torn and poisoned countryside — the mountains of waste from mining and other industries ; the sheets of sullen water , known as ‘ flashes ’ , which had their origin in subsidence of the surface as a result of mining below ; the disused pit-shafts ; the derelict and stagnant canals . |
| 7 | In our feasibility study , we found that these two types were both represented in the samples of social work offered to us as examples of secondary prevention , and a distinction between them made sense to the practitioners . |
| 8 | The good-natured banter between them excluded Marie . |
| 9 | Double booked : Twins Gareth ( left ) and Jonathan Boreland aged 16 who between them gained Grade A in 20 GCSEs . |
| 10 | As the film rolled , ignorance for me became awe . |
| 11 | court had discretion to order defence to be struck out unless defendant underwent medical examination to determine whether he was capable of remembering the accident where he was the only witness for his pleaded defence . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone named Shirley who was a care assistant at Chestnut House twenty years ago , ’ she explained . |
| 13 | For instance , you could make a herbal picture for someone called Rosemary , or a lovely wintry picture with holly , hellebores and carnations for a Holly . |
| 14 | You called a number in Caracas yesterday morning , asking for someone called Laurie . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm looking for someone called Svend . ’ |
| 16 | Except that when Mrs Tremayne were dying , I thought I heard her say something about someone called Ash , or maybe it was Nash . |
| 17 | About someone called Hugh , apparently , who would appear to be something of a sadist , judging by your words and actions . |
| 18 | She was damned if she would be put through a third degree by this raving lunatic who seemed to have a fixation about someone called Lotta . |
| 19 | A social dilettante with a hang-up about someone called Lotta , and who had nothing better to do than sleep the daylight hours away , she concluded , despising both the man and his attitude ! |
| 20 | She could hear everyone 's voices quite clearly as she ate , all about someone called Sylvia , who had been truly blessed . |
| 21 | ‘ About someone called Angela Morgan whom you or another F. Wilson at the DTI had lunch with a couple of weeks ago . |
| 22 | Maybe he was talking about someone called Simone . |
| 23 | After them came Rebus , the Devil himself . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's after them blasted bantams again , ’ Jos said , watching him go . |
| 25 | The followers of Ali were defeated after his won death and the deaths of his sons . |
| 26 | Accreditation is planned for May 1993 after which approved organisations will begin the delivery of MCI . |
| 27 | ‘ And after you left school ? ’ |
| 28 | After him came Murtach , who seemed to be leading the patrol ; then Ratagan , Riven and Isay , and the other seven Hearthwares with the mules . |
| 29 | Bicker led , and after him came Ratagan and Riven , Isay and Luib , then Tagan and Rimir and finally Darmid and Corrary leading the pack mules . |
| 30 | Other members of MI5 that looked after him included Colonel George Hartland , Michael Wilmont , Peter Haylor , Captain Charles MacNott , and a clerk , Rose Prince . |