Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing had this little procession presented the air of a party setting out to receive guests . |
| 2 | Most people here would be very worried if information about them turned up in Greece , or in other European Community countries , based upon suspicion . |
| 3 | By 1907 Polish financial institutions , though cramped by legal restrictions , had become so effective that finance flowing through them allowed almost every Polish farm in Pomerania of 5 hectares or more access to some form of farm machinery on a shared or collective basis . |
| 4 | The British administrators were patient because they knew that the whole of the Masai respect for them lay in |
| 5 | The advertising for them talked scathingly of ‘ one-car captivity ’ . |
| 6 | The results of these early surveys showed that the use made of foreign-language publications was low , and that the demand for them showed little , if any , variation from one year to the next . |
| 7 | The incidence found was probably an underestimate of true community incidence as the protocol did not pick up those people in whom , for whatever reason , the clinicians caring for them did not measure the serum electrolyte values . |
| 8 | The remaining four had all been backstage at the relevant time , or could have been , but the motives Charles had managed to dredge up for them did n't survive close scrutiny . |
| 9 | Cos that 's what Margaret stopped paying her paying for them did n't she June ? |
| 10 | I asked for them did n't I ? |
| 11 | in fact the girl who did the mailing for them did n't do it properly so in fact it 's unlikely to happen erm they asked me because I know that since she 's now leaving the Vice-Principal through network erm and and they were thinking of getting something together like that , I did n't write this that 's not my writing but just let me tell you I do n't write a twenty- four clock , twenty-four hour clock with full stops in it |
| 12 | And they watched from the sidelines as Mr and Mrs Grierson between them brought up the baby , Carla . |
| 13 | Ewa airfield was attacked and defended by Taylor and Welch who between them shot down six aircraft . |
| 14 | They looked tired , and the great , empty coffin they carried between them looked too much for their wasted strength to bear . |
| 15 | The People 's Party and the Democrats had between them polled over 5,500,000 votes in 1928 , but in 1932 they polled less than a million . |
| 16 | It is likely that some degree of unity could have been achieved between them had not Mrs Webb become convinced that the division was irreconcilable and determined to make every effort to bring her proposals to fruition . |
| 17 | Franklin had once written a letter to Sir Ralph which the Member thought highly offensive and relations between them had since remained frigid . |
| 18 | It is also relevant here that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries meetings between rulers were exceedingly rare ( Louis XIV never met William III , the Emperor Leopold I or Charles II of Spain , the rivals against whom he struggled for so long ) and negotiations between them had therefore to be conducted entirely through their diplomats . |
| 19 | The atmosphere between them had suddenly become frosty . |
| 20 | At three o'clock that afternoon , the intimacy between them had almost completely disintegrated . |
| 21 | She looked across the open grave at Sarah , her stepdaughter , and it saddened her even more that the gulf between them had never been bridged . |
| 22 | Then her wish was granted as his head blotted out the sun , and Robbie emitted a little ecstatic noise as the space between them melted away entirely and they lay body pressed to body , mouth to mouth , his hands moulding her to him with a sudden , startling ferocity . |
| 23 | Where she might be he could not imagine and the gap between them seemed perceptibly to widen as he sat waiting in his car for a doleful hour of encroaching twilight . |
| 24 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 25 | The Public Utilities Holding Companies Act was also seen as an attack on big business ; this gave powers to the Securities Exchange Commission to dissolve the giant holding companies that between them controlled over 90% of the nation 's electric power output . |
| 26 | Mars , Cadbury and Rowntree between them controlled about 80 per cent of the market , and so an addition of 2 or 3 per cent would be unlikely to affect the competitive position ( refer to Table 2.4 ) . |
| 27 | Bailey is Britain 's number five and 240th in the world … the difference between them showed today … iit was all over in two sets … |
| 28 | Bailey is Britain 's number five and 240th in the world … the difference between them showed today … iit was all over in two sets … |
| 29 | London 's rate of population loss in the 1970s was virtually the same as the average for the next five cities ( Birmingham , Glasgow , Liverpool , Manchester , and Newcastle ) , so the relative gap between them changed little . |
| 30 | The affectionate bond that built up between them did not go unnoticed either by Prince Charles nor Mannakee 's colleagues . |