Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once David got off off the wall |
| 2 | There she would stay for up an hour in shirt-sleeves in the pitch-dark , sometimes in the snow , while the bewildered family shivered inside . |
| 3 | Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 . |
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| 5 | The continuous variable weight for height expressed as standard deviation score was adjusted for in the analysis of lung function . |
| 6 | We calculated the possible effect of birth weight for a given age of gestation on FEV 1 using the example of two children of 38 weeks ' gestation with the same attributes adjusted for in the analysis but one having a birth weight of 2500 g and the other 3500 g . |
| 7 | He is actually the third Aldabra tortoise imported for the governor 's garden , each of his predecessors , however , lived for about a century . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This was £80,000 in excess of the loan asked for in the application in its unaltered form . |
| 11 | This has , of course , been recognized for over a century . |
| 12 | All I could think about at the time was keeping this lady happy . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't even think about about the decathlon again until Duncan Mathieson , another one of Jim 's group down here , started going on about being the only one who was going to make it to the World Student Games . |
| 14 | You know , there 's a lot of symbolism that really has been lost , people do n't think about in the wedding service , but is underlying , you know , until fa fairly recently a lot of people promised to obey , erm , look at Prince Andrew and that when he got married , you know , erm , the Duchess of York actually promised to obey him |
| 15 | And thirdly , we ask you to affirm the call of Peter for praying for in the ministry . |
| 16 | But if bureaucrats turn out not to organize and act as in the model , then that is so much the worse for the model . |
| 17 | Losses which can be claimed for under the Act are death , personal injuries and any loss of or damage to property ( s. 5(1) ) . |
| 18 | I mean there 's no earthly use doing a beautiful piece of evaluation erm which no-one wants to know about at the end , or publishing something that has no affect . |
| 19 | Raskolnikov 's ‘ incomplete smile ’ is the index of those ‘ half-baked ’ ( literally , ‘ incomplete ’ ) ideas which Dostoevsky writes about in the letter to Katkov . |
| 20 | Another possibility is that there could be a relationship between this inflammation and infection with Helicobacter pylori , although we are unable to confirm this from our study , since the organism was not specifically looked for in every case . |
| 21 | Nothing fancy is looked for in the way of bait and tackle : it 's the basic hook , line and worm . |
| 22 | Finally , it seems also to be a taken-for-granted principle that in human affairs where there is order there is something corresponding to a rule to be looked for in the background of the actions which appear as orderly . |
| 23 | Project members are normally overseen by a Steering Committee , representing relevant expertise that is not to be looked for within the institution itself . |
| 24 | Quite wide steps and it 's designed as as a exhibition . |
| 25 | Tied up nearby , as before , is a solitary cow which he cares for on a 25-per-cent basis ( the rest of the proceeds go to the owner ) . |
| 26 | It enables everyone involved to understand the Process that is going on , it makes it possible for grieving people to be looked after for a while , but not to sink into a chronic mourning state , because everyone knows when it is meant to be finished , and when the bereaved people are meant to pick up their responsibilities again . |
| 27 | They released me for the day and I sat in a cab desperately trying to keep calm whilst my mind raced through the practicalities of getting Mum back — cancelling the filming , getting the kids looked after for a while if … |
| 28 | He and his wife retired to Countess Street , in Heaviley , not far from the buildings and fields he had looked after for a lifetime so conscientiously , with cheerful whistle and every-ready smile . |
| 29 | I think the public wants to know that all those people , and their families , who suffered in the war will be looked after for the rest of their lives . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Carol Barratt is going to be looked after for the rest of her life , and looked after well , whereas life for us is never going to be the same again . ’ |