Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing did smiling Irish eyes make the fortunes of the bohemian hacks who were just about to create the modern popular music business in the cities of the United States . |
| 2 | When the mail van pulled up outside , the hum of talk about them went silent . |
| 3 | Surprisingly , the Heisenberg programme , designed to keep the best researchers within the university system until jobs for them became vacant , has not received enough applicants . |
| 4 | The centrist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PARM ) and the left-wing Party of the Cardenist Front for National Reconstruction ( PFCRN ) and Popular Socialist Party ( PPS ) between them commanded 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 5 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 6 | They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham . |
| 7 | He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up . |
| 8 | Again the space between them seemed solid . |
| 9 | Through the 1920s , a clear gap opened up between Barth and Brunner on the one hand , and Bultmann and Gogarten on the other , though it was only to be later that the full significance of the divergence between them became apparent . |
| 10 | Comparisons between them became commonplace , but unlike Brando , this other rebel was not so aggressive either on screen or off it . |
| 11 | The tale is all too familiar , but in this case it has a tragic poignancy : Leopold 's heart was broken by his son 's defection , and the rift between them remained unhealed even at the old man 's death . |
| 12 | In 1961 a rancorous match between them ended level with two wins each and seven draws , before Fischer , then 18 , walked out . |
| 13 | That charge between them sparked all at once . |
| 14 | His thin pink lips , which normally she loved for their delicacy and sensitivity , were stretched in a colourless line , and between them showed sharp discoloured teeth . |
| 15 | Throughout her reign , and particularly in its first decade or so , noble factions and the struggles between them did much to restrict her freedom of action : in 1772–73 the conflict at court between the rival Panin and Orlov parties for a time deprived her almost completely of any such freedom . |
| 16 | So the lines between them stayed hot . |
| 17 | In 1900 in the Ruhr town of Hamborn , three enterprises between them employed 10,000 people ; by 1913 these same enterprises employed 30,000 . |
| 18 | It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week . |
| 19 | It was held on the anniversary itself , and for me followed three days of interviews and other press events organized by Cathy and Chris . |
| 20 | What about I said this number . |
| 21 | And what about I bought some revision books and things study aids or something for Amanda for her English literature |
| 22 | And what about I bought some revision books and things study aids or something for Amanda for her English literature |
| 23 | After him came two men in yellow raincoats with their hands behind their backs , and then two other men in white with guns . |
| 24 | After him came poor old Richard Whitting , who was abbot when Cromwell sent his agents in . |
| 25 | After him came more chiefs and then banners and icons of the two principal churches which had sent their Arks to be present at the battle . |
| 26 | ‘ After what happened last time , ’ she replied . |
| 27 | I ca n't imagine you wanting to decorate any of your lady friends in pearls after what happened last — ’ |
| 28 | ‘ After what happened last night ? |
| 29 | There were two scheduled stops on my journey : the first was a company that was going to hold my bulkier items in storage ( a firm that my now ex-landlord had told me about which had some spare space in a lock-up in a basement car park ) ; the second was of course the Palace Hotel where I was going to drop off everything else . |
| 30 | It had a little courtyard off which led three simple , whitewashed rooms . |