Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do n't you recall the ribbing you got off Father when you were fifteen and were caught in there with a girl … or was it a woman ? |
| 2 | The Independent Companies were intended to be a ship-based force slipping ashore to harass German communications and cut the supply line of Swedish ore , but they often fought as infantry because the Allies had no other troops available ; an unavoidable reason for deploying special forces in this role in Norway . |
| 3 | Unfortunately no situations arose during field-work where the neighbourhood police were required to use these secondary recipes , although one did state how sympathetic he felt towards adolescents in parts of Easton because ‘ they do n't stand a chance ’ there , a feeling which easily translates into sympathetic handling of situations in which youths are involved . |
| 4 | ‘ You mean like Heloise cared for Abelard when he had his balls cut off ? |
| 5 | The staff sample consisted of all 56 registered nurses on the unit and all 31 medical residents who cared for patients when transfer decisions were made . |
| 6 | During that time he also rode for Ferguson when he rode Lacken Beau for the Ballymena trainer at Downpatrick . |
| 7 | Another letter from the middle school was about a visiting theatre group and asked for money as well as a tear-off slip . |
| 8 | I mean I asked for cream when I came here . |
| 9 | They stood by while the policeman asked for help as he was being punched . ’ |
| 10 | It was also very noticeable in the United States how many American lawyers asked for assistance because they wished to refer work to an English barrister . |
| 11 | We asked for guidance as to how this may work following local government reorganisation . |
| 12 | He tells me you asked for advice because of tantrums and that you agreed to him asking me to call on you … ’ . |
| 13 | And of course he was beset by orders and suggestions from other collectors : William Ogilby advised him to collect 6 or 8 specimens of every species , particularly the great red woolly kangaroo , which were in great demand not only in England but on the Continent as well ; Jardine asked for seeds as well as numerous other specified ‘ things in spirits ’ ; Thomas Campbell Eyton wanted as many petrels as Gould could capture for a monograph on the Procellaridae . |
| 14 | Nor , for that matter , did we regard the suggestions we made about Jesus as in any way shocking or outrageous . |
| 15 | Manson was so pleased with the ensuing panic that rippled through Hollywood after the murders were discovered that he organised another raid , this time with himself as the leader . |
| 16 | In a famous passage , Bagehot argued for secrecy as ‘ essential to the utility of the English royalty as it now is . |
| 17 | Desperately she sought for excuses when she knew there was none . |
| 18 | that particular organisation I presume is , is the one that is known as the most profitable investment bank partnership in the world or in history and presumably the reason why you 've been advised is because the advisor or the director to Robert Maxwell who was instrumental in dealing with Robert Maxwell business wherever he was in the world and I mean I 've seen er faxes and cables to France where er that particular director , I believe Mr Shineberg was , I 've seen faxes about Jersey business to Mr Shineberg er presumably er you 're being advised to take that action because in effect it was operating as one operation with transactions routed through New York , routed through London as seemed to suit the circumstances , but not necessarily with any rational basis other than er to avoid perhaps regulation . |
| 19 | Tremors of feeling flickered through Wilson as she took in the scene . |
| 20 | In contrast , stand-in backs Mark Evans and Darren O'Leary excelled for London while the selectors were left in no further doubt that Jason Leonard , Brian Moore and Jeff Probyn must be England 's front row to face France at Twickenham in January . |
| 21 | He raged at the futility of it , and shouted for help as his blade hissed and crunched , but his arms were tiring and he could feel blood running down inside his tunic . |
| 22 | Andrew Walley , UK sales director of the California-based company , says PNMS was developed on a Unix machine in 1980 but commercialised for MVS because the Unix market was still immature . |
| 23 | Moreover , the previous waves occurred during periods when the economy and economic theory were much less highly developed . |
| 24 | Of the 330 patients , 144 were excluded from analysis for the following reasons : asthma present , but referred for endoscopy because of gastrointestinal symptoms ( 56 ) ; chronic obstructive airways disease present rather than asthma ( 18 ) ; no asthma present ( 58 ) ; and declined offer to have endoscopy ( 12 ) . |
| 25 | They swam then , and Damian made love to her in the hot sea , stripping her as they floated together , wrapping their bodies around each other in unreasoning desire , kissing saltily as their hoarse cries filled the air and they nearly sank like stones as Damian went rigid with pleasure , his fingers biting into her nude body in the warm water . |
| 26 | Every top lip was pulled back off the teeth , every eye was ringed round with a reddish bruising , while their cheeks cracked like tambourines as they cough , cough , coughed . |
| 27 | Figures moving through the dark halls flickered like ghosts as they passed through these moments of light . |
| 28 | Oliver 's heart beat with excitement as they stopped outside . |
| 29 | Glass crashed onto cobbles as soldiers bashed out window-panes to make crude loopholes for muskets . |
| 30 | Smaller pots can be planted with single specimens to flower for months , or to be concealed and moved into place as they approach their best . |