Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never lacked for both helpers and escort , but men on starvation diet take time to respond to good feeding , and their willingness far outran what was left of their strength . |
| 2 | As the UK 's main independent AIDS home care provider , we cared for around 25% of all those who died of AIDS last year . |
| 3 | As from 3 May the premium for lots sold for over £30,000 will be raised to 15% while those making less than that figure will still be charged at 10% . |
| 4 | Those aware that in May 1989 Sotheby 's New York sold for $67 million a small group of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings inherited and collected by Ortiz-Patiño and once displayed in his house in Switzerland ( notable among the eight paintings offered at the time was Gauguin 's ‘ Mata Mua ’ , a Tahitian composition that sold for over $24 million to its former co-owner , Baron Thyssen , having been jointly purchased by Ortiz-Patiño and Thyssen only five years before at Sotheby 's New York for $3.85 million ) , may ask themselves how will Jaime Ortiz-Patiño furnish and decorate his London flat ? |
| 5 | The guide price for Cradley was £1.75m , and market sources believe it sold for about £1.9m , suggesting a yield less than 4.5% . |
| 6 | Some of Thomson 's holidays to Spain sold for only £25 a week or £35 for two weeks , and 500 Intasun Holidays were offered for £39 each . |
| 7 | Estimated at $20–30,000 it sold for only $16,000 ( £8,900 ) to a private collector . |
| 8 | " I can get that list of voyages you asked for tomorrow morning , " she said . |
| 9 | The foundation 's director , Mr Paul Meyer , went to Antwerp to meet Edouards , who asked for about £250 . |
| 10 | On Jan. 17 , 1991 , Heseltine announced the local government finance arrangements for 1991/92 , which provided for over £4,250 million more in extra support to local government than had already been granted in July 1990 for 1990-91 [ see p. 37623 ] In the budget , presented on March 19 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer Norman Lamont , a " substantial switch was proposed from local to central taxation , amounting to £4,250 million in 1991/92 , and the reducing net yield of local taxation to around £7,000 million [ see p. 38110 ] . |
| 11 | We swam for about quarter of an hour and then walked back to the cave , dried ourselves as best we could on our shirts , and drove on , chests bare . |
| 12 | Simultaneous food and acid reflux occurred for only 0.95+5.2/-1.2% of the time . |
| 13 | Are any of these calamities which need not have occurred , or where they all acts which were very unfortunate but occurred with basically goodwill all round as it were ? |
| 14 | The robbers fled with just £10 . |
| 15 | Tay 's earnings per share slumped from 5.5p to 3.04p , though turnover rose from almost £25.5 million to £27.2 million . |
| 16 | The level of investment by the BEA rose from only £92 millions in the financial year 1948/9 to £125 millions in 1950/1 and £196 millions in 1954/5 ( only about two-fifths of this overall rise being accounted for by the fall in the real value of the pound ) . |
| 17 | At the time of the announcement , the Stoddard share price rose from around 37p to 45p , a gain of 21% which has since steadily held its position . |
| 18 | Meals for the three of us — two adults and a child — ranged from around £22 to £35 , depending on what tickled our fancy . |
| 19 | It 's believed that Sandra moved to either Newark or Leicester . |
| 20 | Thereafter prices evened out around the dollars 18 level ( the " minimum " reference price for OPEC oil confirmed in November 1989-see p. 37053 ) , but in December the world market was again temporarily affected ( this time by exceptionally cold weather in North America and by the US military operation in Panama-see pp. 37112-13 ) and in the latter part of that month the Brent crude price rose to over dollars 20 . |
| 21 | Corporate funding , which rose to around £30m last year , has its part to play , irritating though it is when executives parade as great patrons while giving away their shareholders ' money . |
| 22 | As a result , the proportion of revenues originating from outside the UK rose to around 27% , with the Far East and US performing particularly well . |
| 23 | Vauxhall 's market share rose to almost 19% , compared with under 16% in October 1991 . |
| 24 | The plaintiff argued for the Woolwich principle and referred to both Hooper v. Exeter Corporation and Steele v. Williams but no reference to these cases appears in the reserved judgment . |
| 25 | Speaking to the Nenagh Chamber of Commerce he referred to how Schering Plough , despite offering no pollution threat , had been turned away because of unreasonable and implacable opposition from small groups of people : |
| 26 | Xu says he is impressed with the standard of fundamental craft skills he found among both staff and students at Norwich . |
| 27 | Sean and Mandy would like to buy , but most houses in Enstone cost at least £80,000 , well outside their price range . |
| 28 | His biographer attributes the protracted proceedings there to Hamo 's unwillingness to bribe the cardinals ( although it is clear that he retained at least Cardinal William Testa at the curia ) , as well as to the proliferation of other candidates with royal support . |
| 29 | And then Raymond phoned at about quarter to seven . |
| 30 | All weighed at least 10% more than their ideal reference weight ( 63.0 ( 1.3 ) kg ) . |