Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing had this little procession presented the air of a party setting out to receive guests . |
| 2 | By 1907 Polish financial institutions , though cramped by legal restrictions , had become so effective that finance flowing through them allowed almost every Polish farm in Pomerania of 5 hectares or more access to some form of farm machinery on a shared or collective basis . |
| 3 | The advertising for them talked scathingly of ‘ one-car captivity ’ . |
| 4 | The results of these early surveys showed that the use made of foreign-language publications was low , and that the demand for them showed little , if any , variation from one year to the next . |
| 5 | They looked tired , and the great , empty coffin they carried between them looked too much for their wasted strength to bear . |
| 6 | The People 's Party and the Democrats had between them polled over 5,500,000 votes in 1928 , but in 1932 they polled less than a million . |
| 7 | Franklin had once written a letter to Sir Ralph which the Member thought highly offensive and relations between them had since remained frigid . |
| 8 | It is also relevant here that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries meetings between rulers were exceedingly rare ( Louis XIV never met William III , the Emperor Leopold I or Charles II of Spain , the rivals against whom he struggled for so long ) and negotiations between them had therefore to be conducted entirely through their diplomats . |
| 9 | The atmosphere between them had suddenly become frosty . |
| 10 | At three o'clock that afternoon , the intimacy between them had almost completely disintegrated . |
| 11 | She looked across the open grave at Sarah , her stepdaughter , and it saddened her even more that the gulf between them had never been bridged . |
| 12 | Then her wish was granted as his head blotted out the sun , and Robbie emitted a little ecstatic noise as the space between them melted away entirely and they lay body pressed to body , mouth to mouth , his hands moulding her to him with a sudden , startling ferocity . |
| 13 | Where she might be he could not imagine and the gap between them seemed perceptibly to widen as he sat waiting in his car for a doleful hour of encroaching twilight . |
| 14 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 15 | The Public Utilities Holding Companies Act was also seen as an attack on big business ; this gave powers to the Securities Exchange Commission to dissolve the giant holding companies that between them controlled over 90% of the nation 's electric power output . |
| 16 | Mars , Cadbury and Rowntree between them controlled about 80 per cent of the market , and so an addition of 2 or 3 per cent would be unlikely to affect the competitive position ( refer to Table 2.4 ) . |
| 17 | Bailey is Britain 's number five and 240th in the world … the difference between them showed today … iit was all over in two sets … |
| 18 | Bailey is Britain 's number five and 240th in the world … the difference between them showed today … iit was all over in two sets … |
| 19 | London 's rate of population loss in the 1970s was virtually the same as the average for the next five cities ( Birmingham , Glasgow , Liverpool , Manchester , and Newcastle ) , so the relative gap between them changed little . |
| 20 | It cost around £2,000 to make in 1982 and the man who built it for me said then that it would ‘ lift one ton , let alone Willie Whitelaw ’ . |
| 21 | Now place around the head of this statue angels ; place in his left hand a sword ; and light in his realistically enamelled eyes a welcome and a promise such as I had never , never in all my years seen . |
| 22 | It was an otter such as I had never seen before , with this all-over fawn coat . |
| 23 | In some elusive way , here before me was the representative of something , some enormous sphere of sensations and transcendent values such as I had only read about , something my Maker had withheld from me which I desperately needed . |
| 24 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 25 | We have also developed genetic sexing methods such as I described earlier for A. albimanus and we are using it with species such as A. gambiae s.s . , |
| 26 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 27 | So I 'll see you in about I 'd better work out what the date is . |
| 28 | Into er into some other places and owt , and had about I had about about two months . |
| 29 | The basic business of looking after them felt so demanding and emotionally wearing that there seemed little rime left to introduce them to ‘ real living ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ I padlocked them gates after herself drove away , ’ he muttered . |