Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money at short notice is money lent for up to fourteen days . |
| 2 | From November , 1914 , Ruhleben ( racecourse stables outside Berlin ) housed for up to four years about 4000 Britons , who ranged from several honeymoon couples just arrived in Germany for their August holidays to dons and students on walking or reading parties , musicians and sportsmen snatched from festivals , and even a journalist with an ear supposedly close to the ground , Israel Cohen , a German correspondent for the London press who had cheerfully left on July 29 for his vacation near Dresden . |
| 3 | Well yes , but that , remember we provided for up to two hundred million which we thought would see us through to the end of ninety two . |
| 4 | Control panels bristled with up to thirty-five switches and buttons as if the housewife-technologist required the skills of an airline pilot . |
| 5 | I tried to back down the stairs but Nelly kept hold of my frock and prevented me . |
| 6 | VIOLENCE and SEX crimes increased by up to 3.6 per cent , BURGLARY rose by up to 2.8 per cent and CRIMINAL DAMAGE by up to 3.3 per cent . |
| 7 | One of the little maps in the book shows the Isle of Wight with some towns round the Isle of Wight , and it said Poole so she said Poole , she said the boat sailed from out of France ? |
| 8 | At weekends people came from up to fifty miles around . |
| 9 | The name came from out of his dreams , but he could make nothing of it . |
| 10 | He felt as if he were in a trance , speaking the words of someone else ; the pressure of this rare ocean heave of happiness had re-baptised him , and the words came from out of the air . |
| 11 | A voice came from out of the dark depths of the cage to his right . |
| 12 | Then the burning man came from out of nowhere and took her down . |
| 13 | But , before he had the chance to complete the sentence , a swarm of people came from out of the birch-trees and Aziz and Hasan disappeared into them . |
| 14 | John Stevenson drove at up to 90mph in areas where speed limits were imposed , the court heard . |
| 15 | Mid you , The Shamen have been blurring boundaries ever since they arrived from out of nowhere , with an interesting selection of LSD tabs in one hand and well-thumbed copy of Lenin Plays Psychedelia ( sadly , now out of stock ) in the other . |
| 16 | Mid you , The Shamen have been blurring boundaries ever since they arrived from out of nowhere , with an interesting selection of LSD tabs in one hand and well-thumbed copy of Lenin Plays Psychedelia ( sadly , now out of stock ) in the other . |
| 17 | Bartlett fell lbw to Batty for 37 and without addition Lathwell was stunningly caught one handed at mid-off by Batty to bring Carrick a wicket . |
| 18 | Selected lines reducved by up to 50 per cent with further reductions later in the sale . |
| 19 | He was convinced from the beginning that Ken was perfect for the role of the slightly dotty but romantic detective in the white raincoat , a man who existed on a diet of macaroons he produced from out of a black Gladstone bag . |
| 20 | Sales of Guinness fell slightly in a national market which shrank by up to 5 per cent . |
| 21 | THE OZONE layer above Europe thinned by up to 18 per cent this winter because of pollution from industrial gases , a 17-nation study reported yesterday . |
| 22 | Pitching : the flysheet is erected first and took a little longer than I expected to up on my own — six minutes . |
| 23 | Towards the end of September Patil 's position was weakened when he suffered a stroke , and in early October his predicament worsened when Advani 's Rath Yatra [ see above ] incited serious communal rioting in Karnataka which resulted in up to 50 deaths . |
| 24 | The bloke that I went to out with . |
| 25 | Government stocks fell by up to £¼ . |
| 26 | BOSNIA still tugs at the heart-strings , while events in Russia are potentially stomach-churning , and share prices , from Hong Kong westward round the world , duly fell by up to 2.5 per cent yesterday . |
| 27 | The NSF , whose joint leaders were Ilya Konstantinov ( who had organized opposition meetings reported in August see p. 39058 ) and G. Zyuganov , had been established on Oct. 24 at a meeting in Moscow attended by up to 3,000 delegates , which had called for Yeltsin 's removal . |
| 28 | It comprises a Senate , made up of 315 senators elected for five years on a regional basis as well as seven life senators , and a 630-member Chamber of Deputies , also elected for up to five years . |
| 29 | Reports spoke of up to 13 deaths . |
| 30 | The massive thighs which emerged from out of the smock were encased in a pair of extraordinary breeches , bottle-green in colour and made of coarse twill . |