Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [conj] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fumbled for change and pressed the button for black coffee . |
| 2 | The British electorate — we have rolled forward to Friday — has opted for change and made a job of it , sweeping the Natural Law Party into power . |
| 3 | Where some have attempted to ignore international structural changes , others , perhaps grudgingly , have accepted the need for change and grasped the nettle of internal adjustment . |
| 4 | Birches Green Infant School in Birmingham approached the undertaker and betting office for support and received a bottle of whisky and some new ties for their efforts . |
| 5 | He let go of the door he was clutching for support and tested the muscles in his legs . |
| 6 | In 1612 the ambassador in Paris took the desperate step of writing directly to James I to ask for money and persuaded the duc de Bouillon , one of the greatest French nobles , to back his request . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland , upholding the trial judge 's decision , ordered that TBL be joined as defendant and dismissed the action on the ground that clause 3 of the agreement constituted an attempt to fetter TBL 's statutory power to increase its capital and was therefore invalid . |
| 8 | This latter exclusion was construed to mean that if someone did n't tighten up a bolt properly during maintenance or left a spanner in the works , which resulted in damage to the plant , then no cover would have been applicable . |
| 9 | But it was the call for investment that aroused the most plain fears , and these have been compounded in recent days by a clutch of investments in Eastern Europe by big western manufacturers . |
| 10 | From the mid-1950s to the early 1 970s the high levels of economic growth in all sectors increased competition for labour and allowed the gap to close . |
| 11 | Colour TV transformed the fortunes of games such as snooker and transfixed the viewers of Wimbledon . |
| 12 | One day Victoria and Alexander were called to the drawing room after tea and saw a strange woman in a dress printed with yellow lemons sitting on the fender beside their father . |
| 13 | For example , he may be told that his alibi relates to a period between 2 and 5 p.m. last Thursday , when he left the refectory after lunch and took a train to a named neighbouring town and visited a friend in time for tea . |
| 14 | He was the genuine article , a caddie who followed the circuit for year after year and carried the bags of two Open Champions . |
| 15 | Well , you know , Donald came up here year after year and took a real tongue lashing and you did n't really put anything down there that could be criticized this year but you said we 're gon na fight . |
| 16 | ‘ My experience tells me that few teams have come from outside the top five after Christmas and won the League . |
| 17 | I went out for lunch and left the speech in the back of a taxi . |
| 18 | Hayling met Walsh for lunch and explained the newspaper project . |
| 19 | Humpage had been chosen as wicketkeeper and started the game behind the stumps , but with Gloucestershire finding little to worry them in the efforts of Warwickshire 's regular bowlers , Humpage removed his pads and gloves , with Chris Maynard , playing as a batsman , taking over as wicketkeeper . |
| 20 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 21 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 22 | through cumulus that had the lapis glow |
| 23 | This necessarily meant that Althusser endorsed Bachelard 's arguments about empiricism and rejected the concept of history as a system of progression or evolution . |
| 24 | They met through work and had an affair for five months until Mike , who was divorced , suggested Marianne should leave her husband . |
| 25 | He grabbed the nearest bottle of whisky and poured a measure into a glass , watching her over the rim . |
| 26 | It was a standard opening — the kind of play that made no real difference to the final outcome — yet somehow the boy made it seem a challenge . |
| 27 | THE WELSH are closing in on the standards of play that immortalised the sixties and seventies as the golden age of their rugby . |
| 28 | But far from alerting people to the danger of environmental degradation , the theory was used to justify the kind of progress that increased the level of exploitation . |
| 29 | Having explored some of the causes of change and identified the areas which will continue to be debated for the next decade , it is perhaps appropriate to try to identify the developments which have occurred in the past 30 years . |
| 30 | While Charles listened to all this good advice , he drank up his glass of champagne and felt a bit better . |