Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the initial simple desire for change soon took on a more sinister hue when Rupert Murdoch completely switched his printing operation from Fleet Street to Wapping in the East End of London . |
| 2 | Holding Seawitch on course with one hand , he pushed the other through hair already rumpled by previous displays of frustration . |
| 3 | But she also knew that anger would be part of Creggan 's survival , part of the strength he would need if , as she hoped , his chance for freedom ever came . |
| 4 | The right to stand for election still remained restricted to Matai . |
| 5 | My quest for money also held its disappointments . |
| 6 | A claim for money generally had to be substantiated by evidence of careful planning , identification of areas of shortfall , prioritising and cost-effective exercises . |
| 7 | Protests about professionalization also came in the 1960s from the prominenti of Oxford English . |
| 8 | Under the system of research funding proposed in the White Paper the principle of plurality of research funding will be maintained , giving institutions access to block funds for research alongside targeted funding for specific projects from the research councils . |
| 9 | Winter arrived in some parts of West Germany just 15 days after autumn officially began and some areas in the Black Forest and the Alps recorded freezing temperatures and snowfalls |
| 10 | Reporters who approached the hotel just after dawn yesterday said there was no sign of the rebels who took over part of the hotel in the exclusive Escalon district of the capital . |
| 11 | This desperate cry for help eventually arrived at the parson 's house in Emminster . |
| 12 | However , it must be emphasised that all the women who chose not to register for work actually did want paid employment and took up any employment opportunities which arose ( Callender , 1986a ) . |
| 13 | The CDU , with Strauss as a controversial candidate for Chancellor actually fell back to 44.5 per cent , whilst Genscher 's FDP ( 11 per cent ) advanced and the SDP ( 43 per cent ) held firm . |
| 14 | Got another day off work already had more days off work this year |
| 15 | Since culture of PBL in the presence of cycloheximide greatly reduced ELISA index values ( mean 0.87 [ 0.11 ] ) , the antibodies detected must have been newly synthesised . |
| 16 | Moore 's authoritative style of play soon brought him to the notice of the England management . |
| 17 | Letters and phone-calls of support also came from every corner of Britain . |
| 18 | In case anyone should question these financial allocations , can we point out that they only move the film and crafts sectors towards the level of support long enjoyed in England and Wales . |
| 19 | Those of us who had been drawn towards Labour as a party of change now received a sharp reminder that whatever else it was at local level , it was at national level still essentially an electoral machine . |
| 20 | Fujimori 's change of heart reportedly came after a visit to Peru on May 16 by the Uruguayan Foreign Minister Héctor Gros Espiell , as an OAS emissary . |
| 21 | Frustration at his inexplicable change of heart now had her almost at screaming pitch . |
| 22 | Terry , whose gentleness of heart so melted my own that I helped him sell his newspapers outside factories , on picket lines and outside East End tube stations at seven-thirty in the morning , was encouraging . |
| 23 | We can not assume that such areas were unsettled , however , since areas of woodland often belonged to other places which are better documented . |
| 24 | ‘ Do you know that in the mythology of Earth the concept of freedom only came into existence after male and female ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil . |
| 25 | When he did , he made a gurgling kind of noise then rose to his full height in the pew and bellowed like a bull-calf , ‘ NOREEN ! ’ |
| 26 | On his return to the States he discovered that the recession had not ended , but his chances of re-election probably had . |
| 27 | Problems of co-ordination probably reached their worst by the mid-1980s . |
| 28 | She had been fastening the buttons at the shoulder of Thomas 's elephant-patterned pyjamas , but all sense of co-ordination suddenly seemed to vanish and her fingers fumbled in vain . |
| 29 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 30 | Earl Howe , the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture officially launched the group , which has 15 members , including a fish farm , a countryside museum and a waterfowl collection . |