Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's important to go somewhere with a good kindergarten where they can just be looked after or taught to ski . |
| 2 | ‘ She develops this grandiose theory of herself as being important , and makes Truth Or Dare which I saw a couple of minutes of but had to stop watching because it was so unpleasant and embarrassing and awful . |
| 3 | Bruno de Bayser attracted a lot of attention , albeit no buyer , for a magnificent FFr 1.2 million ( £123,700 ; $215,250 ) red chalk drawing of a young woman by Fragonard a deliberately eye catching piece to show what the gallery is capable of but did sell ten works including three female portraits by Dunker , Jeaurat and Quesnel for under FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) . |
| 4 | Somehow , both mothers have to be visited , cared for and made to feel wanted . |
| 5 | I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes . |
| 6 | ( Following the first election , however , he was successfully petitioned against and had to withdraw , but he survived the petition that followed the second . ) |
| 7 | I 'm finding something totally wrong with and got shot of it and then things have been |
| 8 | It was all done with and had ended how things always seemed to end for her . |
| 9 | This then was the paradox Neela grew up with and had to learn to grow out of . |
| 10 | Each day he gained strength and with and longed to toss himself in the sea . |
| 11 | The reunification of Russia coincided with and helped to sustain a century of relative prosperity which lasted into the 1560s . |
| 12 | Over 80 per cent of cases in one series were either suffering from or had suffered from other sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 13 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 14 | They had never been on Scottish waters before and planned to go round Skye . |
| 15 | But he 'd stood up well to that first interview , hindered rather than helped by the presence of his solicitor , who had never seen his client before and had made it painfully apparent that he would prefer never to see him again . |
| 16 | The young woman had visited both the museum and the castle before and had looked down from their heights onto the epidemic of streets below , between the top of the hill and the broad curve of the Bay . |
| 17 | These people had been driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they stood up in and had struggled through a war-torn countryside , sometimes in sub-zero temperatures , to reach a refuge where food , shelter and warm clothing were in very short supply . |
| 18 | But still she could not use it until she spent an accumulation of 2 ½ years filling out Ridiculous Redundant Forms from the Grand Canyon 's Department of Ridiculous Redundant Forms Redundancy Department , spent $4,967 in stamps mailing the forms in and had to get a skin graph on her tongue from licking stamps . |
| 19 | And then you know , when you check up on it , the following day , you probably find the council 's been back in and forgot to secure it , so we 've got s a nail and some nails and a hammer , and we 'll er just re-secure it and let the the council know in the morning . |
| 20 | Mark said : ‘ I kicked the front door in and tried to get upstairs , but was beaten back by the smoke . |
| 21 | Mr Hale then ran back in and started to crawl on his stomach under the intense heat , climbing over debris which included dead bodies . |
| 22 | This movement ‘ down ’ from God to man expresses and reveals the character and nature of God himself ; for his being is not separate from his action ; and in the answering movement ‘ up ’ from man to God , we see that human existence itself is grounded upon and made to answer to the divine initiative . |
| 23 | Edward , hoping to slink past unnoticed , was pounced upon and told to hurry to his classroom , where the Lower Fourth had an exhibition with a literary theme . |
| 24 | Dr Simpson 's results were immediately pounced upon and found wanting by other groups , who used a different type of instrument and saw no effect . |
| 25 | The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution . |
| 26 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 27 | So it seems to me that you can not do analysis in a group because by definition the ego of a person in a group is , is detracted from , whereas in individual psychoanalysis and ideally the ego of the person is added to and enlarged to give them more competence by being made to face up to its repressions . |
| 28 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 29 | An even bigger shock was in store when the organisers set to and began breaking out a peg for everyone . |
| 30 | But er when I as soon as I was fourteen I walked to and started working next day . |