Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider , for example , the case of two owners of agricultural land on the periphery of a town , both of whom applied for planning permission to develop for housing purposes — the first being given permission and the second refused on the ground that the site in question was to form part of a green belt . |
| 2 | Imagine my amazement when , on my first day in the new set-up , I found that everyone fought for attention by dramatizing every event . |
| 3 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |
| 4 | They made little impact and at the end of the decade some of them resorted to terrorist attacks on senior officials in an effort to destabilize the government . |
| 5 | They erm well apparently he said a few of them got in trouble he said , and heads had to roll and one of them was his ! |
| 6 | This convention retained something of the laconic style of drafting of its Latin American predecessors , and like them applied in principle to both the service of documents and the taking of evidence . |
| 7 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 8 | Most wore white masks and all of them bristled with equipment : fly whisks , cameras , binoculars , Walkmans , water bottles . |
| 9 | She kneaded me , all right , she wanted me transformed into puff pastry just like Daddy . |
| 10 | Lake Okeechobee is so full of nutrients , most of them traced to cow manure , that algae have all but suffocated it . |
| 11 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 12 | The application was renewed to the full court ( Taylor L.J. , Waterhouse and Kennedy JJ. ) on 5 March 1992 and was granted , the grounds of appeal being , that conversations between the undercover police officers and the appellant were interviews and , therefore , the rules in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( s. 66 ) Codes of Practice ( ‘ the PACE Codes ’ ) ought to have been but were not observed , that the effect of the police operation had been to trick the appellant and his co-accused into self-incrimination , and that pursuant to Reg. v. Sang [ 1980 ] A.C. 402 the court ought to have excluded the evidence under section 78 of the Act of 1984 . |
| 13 | ‘ I did not ask them about you , I asked about Jeopardy . ’ |
| 14 | About four years ago , while negotiating a new house insurance , I asked about coverage of my wife 's knitting machines while in transit to and from evening classes . |
| 15 | I asked about side effects and was told all drugs have side effects , even paracetemol . |
| 16 | I asked about discipline , wondering how it compared with that at the central Scotland school where I taught . |
| 17 | I asked about murder . |
| 18 | But this time I asked for Nurse Sally , the hyperactive Mrs Cody 's minder . |
| 19 | I mean I asked for cream when I came here . |
| 20 | So I asked for help ; I did n't like doing it but it seemed necessary . |
| 21 | The way I look at it is this : I asked for help , and they gave it . |
| 22 | If I asked for money from my husband he would talk of all the expenses , of how much it cost the family to keep me . |
| 23 | As for Vivian ( Lord ) Bowden I can only report that he once offered me a job in what was to become UMIST and was particularly accommodating when I asked for time to think about it . |
| 24 | In the motorway restaurant I asked for tea and wholemeal toast , and saw the usual look of incomprehension on the face of the girl behind the counter . |
| 25 | At last I was able to speak to Judge Kerwin , and I asked for news of my family . |
| 26 | At our first lunch I asked for canneloni to fill myself up . |
| 27 | And thirdly there 's a meeting at Stansted Airport of the Committee tomorrow and I wrote and said so to the Committee and said could we discuss this with the Committee tomorrow and again I asked for information to be available to the public and particularly to local Councils so they could alter the situation . |
| 28 | I enjoyed thoroughly my half-hour with Sousa for he was the most genial of hosts , but when I asked for confirmation of the Samuel Ostrander story he only smiled broadly , shaking his head . |
| 29 | I asked with dread . |
| 30 | The same question I asked at city hall , it 's slightly different in that now the council has left two and a half available over the next erm three years given that it is not already taken . |