Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 2 | Her mind vacillated between laughing at her fears and suspecting a terrible mystery . |
| 3 | The unfortunate turn of events also threatened to disrupt plans for the Hamon Building , a 140,000-square-foot three storey annex slated for unveiling within less than a year . |
| 4 | We asked principal carers , therefore , which of a list of symptoms the person they cared for suffered from . |
| 5 | Peggy Ryan asked between saying to an aircraftman , ‘ That 's two teas , two wads and a Rizla . |
| 6 | We asked about going into Finland but he shook his head . |
| 7 | Then , falling into each other 's arms , they tumbled about laughing at their own precocious English . |
| 8 | The assistant chief of the Division of Eastern European Affairs in the State Department , Stevens , argued for rearming in Korea as a sign that the United States would resist communism : |
| 9 | That was the compliment I got for putting on red nail varnish . |
| 10 | However , they never recovered after crashing to 31-5 as Taylor took an Australian one-day record four catches and used his bowlers impressively in the absence of injured regular captain Allan Border . |
| 11 | Their timescales for negotiations and those they proposed for dealing with referrals were much longer than mine . |
| 12 | It was a Sunday , and the coach took us south of the border to the dusty town of Tia Juana where the passengers wandered about looking for souvenirs and tequila . |
| 13 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 14 | Why then is David punished for counting in 1 Chronicles 21 ? |
| 15 | Thérèse had the pocket torch she used for reading under the bedclothes . |
| 16 | Hue and Cry jet off to Sigma Sound , NYC , to work with Jimmy Biondolillo ( Sinatra 's strings arranger ) and the horn section James Brown used for Living in America . |
| 17 | During that first week she went out with Nahum in the trap he used for visiting in the parish , and she was continually looking for a young woman with white hair and a baby . |
| 18 | So anyway Norm mentioned about going to this one at erm Old Tammy , that one on the Old Road |
| 19 | A massive explosion occurred during testing at Tobolsk on the same pipeline in October . |
| 20 | Both sides were fired up — too much so — in some cases — and a spiteful start brought warnings for David Speedie and Keith Alexander before the third-minute incident which saw Rees dismissed for stamping on Downs with the full-back prostrate and helpless . |
| 21 | They fled after calling at a house where the vehicle was blocking a narrow country lane . |
| 22 | In June 1992 , Dubcek was re-elected to parliament as the country headed towards splitting into its two constituent parts . |
| 23 | That argument might have some merit only if the requirements laid down by Community law with regard to the exercise by the member states of the powers which they retained with regard to the registration of vessels conflicted with the rules of international law . |
| 24 | As I recall , the grand swell of opposition which occurred with regard to abandoning the classes of corporate membership and allowing self-advertisement by members of a professional body was not heeded . |
| 25 | He first ventured into retailing in 1964 because he was so disenchanted with the way his furniture was being displayed in the shops to which he supplied . |
| 26 | One of those in the escape , Barry Morton , 24 , was recaptured in Liverpool on Wednesday and was yesterday remanded for a week by magistrates in Manchester charged with escaping from custody and being at large . |
| 27 | They were to go on trial on January 5 charged with lying to Congress about the controversy . |
| 28 | Israel 's plan was actually that of an American businessman now under arrest in the United States charged with trading with Iran . |
| 29 | ( 1981 ) reported with regard to spatial performance that deficits occurred only after right sided lesions in familial left handers . |
| 30 | He was also partly , though not wholly , responsible for the ‘ non-intervention ’ policy which Britain and France pursued with regard to the Spanish Civil War , even though it was being blatantly ignored by Germany , Italy and Russia , and though it denied a legitimate Republican government the right of access to the world market for arms with which to defend itself . |