Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time the embanked railway line — now the District Line — had bisected the ‘ Back Common ’ of Turnham Green , and the area left north of the railway gradually became referred to as Acton Green . |
| 2 | He spent the time thinking about that place in Earl 's Court Square , where screenplay writers read from their screenplays and drank biting Spanish red wine and got stared at by tousled girls who wore overcoats and no make-up and blinked incessantly or not at all . |
| 3 | I used to wonder what on earth people found to talk about for so long , and on the occasion when I was called to a neighbour 's telephone in Baldersdale , I was so uneasy that someone had to hold it to my ear . |
| 4 | . But on a Saturday I had another paper round , from the same people , which involved travelling from to the Sanatorium on Road which is probably two and a half mile , with a cycle , advertising Smiths with the carriers on . |
| 5 | ‘ About the interview … ’ she attempted — and got snarled at for her trouble . |
| 6 | Virginia Bottomley is a very nice woman : soft-spoken and yet forceful , articulate and obviously clever , and the last person I expected to talk to about my job . |
| 7 | Maggie turned round to find herself staring into the eyes she 'd stared into in the pub . |
| 8 | The more she tried to be that person the more I lost my sense of who I 'd fallen for in the first place . |
| 9 | With Mario , you felt that if you were walking through the wilds and a bear came bellowing from behind a tree , Mario would seize its paw , shake it vigorously and tell it a good story . |
| 10 | It seemed to come from above me . |
| 11 | Now the sound of the river seemed to come from beneath their feet . |
| 12 | Now she went to her corner next to which was a cupboard no one seemed to know about except Mrs Brocklebank , shared by her and a certain amount of animal life , and deposited her bag and coat . |
| 13 | Rayleen looked at him as if he 'd dropped from behind peeling wallpaper . |
| 14 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 15 | I wondered where you 'd got to with Summerchild . ’ |
| 16 | Instead they stayed talking until the small hours , telling me of the strokes they 'd pulled and the mischief they 'd got into as kids — right under my unsuspecting nose ! |
| 17 | His pal May and Atkins also deejayed on the show , playing an electric mix of house and European electronic music they 'd got into in high school when all the other kids were listening to the Gap Band and Prince . |
| 18 | Yeah well I mean I saw him what , either a fortnight or three weeks ago , three , probably about three weeks , and at that stage my plaster that I 'd had on after the er op had only been off perhaps a fortnight , it was Christmas intervening you see , so he had every sort of right to say , you know , oh well yeah it should be okay , yeah . |
| 19 | Yakovlev may have exaggerated this shift , given the abstract Marxist tenets on class struggle that he came equipped with from Moscow , but there was already some objective evidence of this right at the start of NEP . |
| 20 | This is difficult to conceive , and it may be wrong , but some such hypothesis seemed called for to Freud 's mind at the end of his life 's work in psychoanalysis . |
| 21 | Newman gave Tweed the name of the hotel he 'd stayed at during his earlier visit , said yes , he was phoning from a call box when Tweed posed the question . |
| 22 | Schellenberg held up a piece of paper which was actually some stationery from the hotel he 'd stayed at in Vienna the previous week . |
| 23 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 24 | Pray God it was n't Tommy Elliot 's farm , which I 'd played with for two years and which I feared — from glances and whispers that I 'd caught between my sister and Mrs Elliot — was going to be cleaned up and bought for me for Christmas . |
| 25 | This was the urgent business she 'd spoken of to Silvia . |
| 26 | I tried to muster the arguments I 'd arrived at with Brian nearly four years earlier , in the autumn of 1986 , after having heard Jacobsen making a tape . |
| 27 | Still he quoted that he 'd dealt with in his past . |
| 28 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 29 | He remembered , from the one or two he 'd gone to with her , that she was in the habit of pocketing things and crunching large handfuls of crisps . |
| 30 | But in this rather frightening vision of the present and future , so have all the things I learnt to care about in eating : flavour , texture , invention , subtlety , companionship — and leisure , which marks the end of the working day and the use of time , not its gobbling . |