Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once David got off off the wall |
| 2 | It is noteworthy that more than half did equivalent or higher level courses than those they applied for at the institutions we covered . |
| 3 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 4 | ‘ What 's the matter , San ? ’ the fat woman asked for about the fifth time since they had all trooped in out of the cold . |
| 5 | I saw , and I have had in actual fact , recourse to actually use that service over there , and it 's rather interesting if one can t to say that er in the particular village which I er represent , they actually came up , when I asked a certain question , they gave me a , a , far more than what I actually asked for at the time , but found out who the first village constable was , and I think myself that er , that service over there , it deserves every praise it gets heaped on it . |
| 6 | Wigs were out of the question because of the cost , and most of the changes John asked for in the designs were for simplicity in making and comfort in wearing . |
| 7 | It recommended the adoption of the procedure asked for in the Institute 's Memorial , which he had helped to organize , and the substitution of moderate passages , in place of his forthright statements , only tended to give the Report the appearance of a more impartial document . |
| 8 | This was £80,000 in excess of the loan asked for in the application in its unaltered form . |
| 9 | I hope that the Minister gives the assurances about timing asked for by the hon. Member for Chislehurst . |
| 10 | Family budgets are seen to be a private settlement of accounts between men and women , men 's unequal distribution of working-class incomes within their households is a right they fought for within the working-class movement and it is not yet susceptible to public political pressure within the movement . |
| 11 | Whilst it is true that the deposit is paid to the original payee because it is security for the performance of contractual obligations assumed throughout the term by the payer and because the payee is the party to whom the contract is entered into , it is , in their Lordships ' view , more realistic to regard the obligation as one entered into with the landlord qua payee rather than qua landlord … |
| 12 | It oozed from under the rugs and the thatches of Grecian 2000 ; made atlases of blouses and bulging summerweight suits ; flowed in fan-shaped alluvial deltas down barer , pocky/downy carcinogenically tanned backs . |
| 13 | She surfaced from under the sheets and her father saw that her hair was wound on huge electrically heated rollers . |
| 14 | As the interviews progressed , a very distinct new picture of Diana surfaced from beneath the highly varnished image . |
| 15 | Chrissie rose from beside the bed , and took Jack 's hand as they walked to the stairs . |
| 16 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 17 | Hector rose from under the desk and limped after her . |
| 18 | As the man rose from behind the conference table , D'Arcy realised just how tall he was . |
| 19 | She rose from behind the desk , her face full of surprise . |
| 20 | A head rose from behind the counter . |
| 21 | The Audi Quattro honked from across the road . |
| 22 | We moved in in the Autumn from . |
| 23 | You do n't we were u we had to use the immersion did n't we cos w we moved in in the June and Lofty and Brian said well do n't have it done cos you 're not gon na use until August so we they did it August time for us so but we did n't use Servowarm cos it had blown up , they just disconnected it for us , so we used the ho the immersion heater |
| 24 | That was the year we moved in in the August , well that was the following summer |
| 25 | ‘ Well thrown , sir ! ’ someone shouted from across the playground , and Matilda , who was mesmerised by the whole crazy affair , saw Amanda Thripp descending in a long graceful parabola on to the playing-field beyond . |
| 26 | Barrington 's words erupted from behind the court like venom . |
| 27 | The nature of the cleavages identified and capitalized upon by the parties reflects the structure of the society although if certain cleavages are ignored by parties ( thereby ‘ organizing out ’ certain biases ) the party system need not faithfully represent all the divisions within a society . |
| 28 | As she brought Shine On out of his box , Bill and Winnie approached from across the yard . |
| 29 | This time they approached from across the field above the bank , a roundabout route . |
| 30 | These were the two sides of the same coin which I referred to at the beginning of this essay , the nature — culture opposition and the particular characterizations and choice of emphases here explored being one explanation for the apparent gender differentials in blood within Jewish ritual practice , and one link at least between the rite of circumcision and menstrual taboo . |