Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the mail van pulled up outside , the hum of talk about them went silent . |
| 2 | Surprisingly , the Heisenberg programme , designed to keep the best researchers within the university system until jobs for them became vacant , has not received enough applicants . |
| 3 | The centrist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PARM ) and the left-wing Party of the Cardenist Front for National Reconstruction ( PFCRN ) and Popular Socialist Party ( PPS ) between them commanded 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 4 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 5 | They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham . |
| 6 | He explained that , since he wrote that advice , it was getting more difficult to arrange a DIY funeral because of the growing number of takeovers ; in fact , three companies between them had large parts of the southern half of the country sewn up . |
| 7 | Again the space between them seemed solid . |
| 8 | Through the 1920s , a clear gap opened up between Barth and Brunner on the one hand , and Bultmann and Gogarten on the other , though it was only to be later that the full significance of the divergence between them became apparent . |
| 9 | Comparisons between them became commonplace , but unlike Brando , this other rebel was not so aggressive either on screen or off it . |
| 10 | The tale is all too familiar , but in this case it has a tragic poignancy : Leopold 's heart was broken by his son 's defection , and the rift between them remained unhealed even at the old man 's death . |
| 11 | In 1961 a rancorous match between them ended level with two wins each and seven draws , before Fischer , then 18 , walked out . |
| 12 | That charge between them sparked all at once . |
| 13 | His thin pink lips , which normally she loved for their delicacy and sensitivity , were stretched in a colourless line , and between them showed sharp discoloured teeth . |
| 14 | Throughout her reign , and particularly in its first decade or so , noble factions and the struggles between them did much to restrict her freedom of action : in 1772–73 the conflict at court between the rival Panin and Orlov parties for a time deprived her almost completely of any such freedom . |
| 15 | So the lines between them stayed hot . |
| 16 | In 1900 in the Ruhr town of Hamborn , three enterprises between them employed 10,000 people ; by 1913 these same enterprises employed 30,000 . |
| 17 | It has been estimated that the nine London newspapers in existence in 1704 between them published 44,000 copies per week . |
| 18 | It was held on the anniversary itself , and for me followed three days of interviews and other press events organized by Cathy and Chris . |
| 19 | What about I said this number . |
| 20 | And what about I bought some revision books and things study aids or something for Amanda for her English literature |
| 21 | And what about I bought some revision books and things study aids or something for Amanda for her English literature |
| 22 | After him came two men in yellow raincoats with their hands behind their backs , and then two other men in white with guns . |
| 23 | After him came poor old Richard Whitting , who was abbot when Cromwell sent his agents in . |
| 24 | After him came more chiefs and then banners and icons of the two principal churches which had sent their Arks to be present at the battle . |
| 25 | The flow of patronage towards them continued unabated , and some of their household expenses were financed by the king . |
| 26 | Only the flowers in the vase on the table in front of me seemed real . |
| 27 | The rest of me knew this sort of thing worked . |
| 28 | Parts of me thought all this was nonsense , but they were in a tiny minority . |
| 29 | But the rest of me ignored those details and clutched hungrily at the reassurance that she had n't really played a willing part in my humiliation . |
| 30 | When the friendship begins to fail , he says : ‘ What she drew out of me remained extraordinary to me . ’ |