Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fiji stood tall while all about them went slip-sliding away . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The good-natured banter between them excluded Marie . |
| 6 | Double booked : Twins Gareth ( left ) and Jonathan Boreland aged 16 who between them gained Grade A in 20 GCSEs . |
| 7 | As the film rolled , ignorance for me became awe . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After them came Rebus , the Devil himself . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's after them blasted bantams again , ’ Jos said , watching him go . |
| 11 | The followers of Ali were defeated after his won death and the deaths of his sons . |
| 12 | ‘ And after you left school ? ’ |
| 13 | After him came Murtach , who seemed to be leading the patrol ; then Ratagan , Riven and Isay , and the other seven Hearthwares with the mules . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Other members of MI5 that looked after him included Colonel George Hartland , Michael Wilmont , Peter Haylor , Captain Charles MacNott , and a clerk , Rose Prince . |
| 16 | Every niche of the craggy cliff held a nest , every hollow of the turfy ledge just below me had eggs or young gulls nestling there . |
| 17 | And for all rumours of me read obituary |
| 18 | The three of them spent hours talking together , usually in the radio-room . |
| 19 | so those few that entered most of them got prizes and it was three police forces that entered and they all got awards . |
| 20 | Y'know , with only these two lads coming round the house and then both of them got bust in one of the lads ’ house and they blew me up as the one who was supplying them . |
| 21 | He offered some minor Major themes , stressing the role of small businesses , small savers , charities and football : all of them got tax breaks . |
| 22 | Some of them supplemented wages from the great estates with tiny holdings , where they were lucky enough to have them . |
| 23 | As disc records took a greater hold of the market , some cylinder companies turned to discs ; but many of them eschewed paper labels . |
| 24 | Two of them escaped prison , and Ronnie Biggs is still at large in Rio De Janeiro . |
| 25 | But neither of them saw Captain Meredith coming from the opposite direction on his way to visit Lawyer Loveitt , and he failed to see them as he crossed into Frog Lane seconds after they had left it . |
| 26 | Although the British needed this route to support Egypt , many of them saw Pan American as opportunistic and poised to exploit its advantage in the postwar years . |
| 27 | A survey of 17 major organisations that had shown interest in joining TOPP , but had later decided not to go ahead , found that although many were still enthusiastic and hoped to set up a scheme at some time in the future , several of them saw cost as a major deterrent . |
| 28 | The two ‘ Arminian ’ bishops of Chichester in the 1620s and 1630s , Richard Montague and Brian Duppa , clashed as surely with the local squires as had Bishop Curteys fifty years before , but this time the enraged Sussex gentry found no support in their appeals to the king ; not surprisingly , a substantial number of them saw Charles 's pretensions as a growing threat to their own social position and local prestige . |
| 29 | In the end , they came to the decision that whichever one of them saw Tamar first , would try to have a private word to tell her of Davis 's presence , and then see how she reacted . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , out of 76 district planning authorities responding to the survey mentioned earlier , 30 of them granted planning permission for potential odour emitting uses subject to a condition relating to odour emission , being of the opinion that the imposition of conditions , including those relating to odour emission , were relevant to securing reasonable and proper planning objectives which complemented rather than conflicted with the responsibilities of the Director of Environmental Health in his dealing with public health matters under the public health legislation . |