Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [prep] [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The tranquiliser and the bottle are poor comforters when the time comes to part for ever from those we love . |
2 | Cheeky oh , you , this thing under there like that I think I 'm tired , just have me water on , I think , I had the gas fire up and I turned round and turned it off |
3 | Hoping that , in the changed climate of opinion in England , he would soon be granted a pardon , Kinloch returned secretly to London , where for some time he remained under cover until early in 1823 he returned clandestinely to Scotland . |
4 | It might be a hundred years from now for all I know . ’ |
5 | ‘ Just stand there laughing ; I could drown in here for all you care ! |
6 | From Wilson 's Grammar School in Camberwell he won a scholarship to St Dunstan 's College , and from there in 1921 he entered the honours school of chemistry at University College London . |
7 | From then until 1980 he commuted between the two , never disappointing his admirers , from Cardinal Bellarmin in Galileo ( 1980 ) to Perchikhin in The Philistines ( 1986 ) . |
8 | From then until 1891 he was apprenticed under ( Sir ) John Aspinall [ q.v. ] , chief mechanical engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at its Horwich works near Bolton . |
9 | From then until 1820 it represented above a fifth of gross domestic capital formation ( GDCF ) . |
10 | Divorce of this kind was first introduced into English law by the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 , and from then until 1969 it was based upon the doctrine that some matrimonial offence ( such as adultery or desertion ) must have been committed by one spouse before the other could obtain relief . |
11 | But from then until 1917 it became an issue of major importance . |
12 | I plead with our commissioners and their counterparts in the Roman Catholic side to concentrate on this issue and not to dally for this I believe is the golden key to that greater , completer , richer and more effective church that is surely coming under God . |
13 | Anyway , at shortly before five I made my way to the forecourt of the RA . |
14 | At least with that you 've got food in the house , if nothing else … . |
15 | At least on this she agreed with Guido . |
16 | At least by 1960 it had been recognised in this jurisdiction that it connotes a duty not to injure one 's neighbour by want of reasonable care . |
17 | Yet he knew , at least in this he was n't alone : the feeling , if it did n't pervade the camp , certainly pervaded his section . |