Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Weimar system of Communists , Social Democrats , liberals , Catholic Centre and conservative parties gave way to a broad two-party system , such as already existed in Britain , with the FDP running a poor third . |
| 2 | They had threatened to blow up the plane unless their demands for the release of political prisoners were met , but the deadline of 6pm passed without incident . |
| 3 | He was sent away to boarding school at Ampleforth and from there went to Trinity College , Cambridge , to read architecture . |
| 4 | From Afdam I took the train to Dire Dawa and from there rode to Harar , through mountains that were beautiful and green after recent rain , following the route my parents had taken in 1909 . |
| 5 | Recalling no doubt the fate of Vera and Orton Chirwa , kidnapped near the border 10 years ago and still imprisoned , Chihana bluffed his way back to Lilongwe and from there flew to Lusaka . |
| 6 | He packs his girlfriend in then went with Jane , but he was still going out with a girlfriend if you know what I mean . |
| 7 | Oh well when I got back from I sat in there for about an hour cos the new girls that were meant to be sleeping in there slept in Zoey and Lucy 's room . |
| 8 | Hazel slipped out of the burrow into the run and at once came upon Strawberry busily thumping a hind leg on the hard earth floor . |
| 9 | When in January 1645 the French agreed to give the Dutch representatives the coveted title of " Excellency " this at once led to demands from the imperial electors that theirs must be given it also . |
| 10 | Macmillan concludes his diary entry for 13 May : " I at once telegraphed to Churchill saying that the position seemed to me radically changed ( I wonder for how long ? ) … |
| 11 | I at once applied for leave , which was granted , and set off for Edinburgh on the overnight train . |
| 12 | Galliéni at once wrote to Joffre , calling for a full report . |
| 13 | Described as ‘ cold , haughty , melancholy and dull ’ , he at least came to life in the splendour of his books , some eight hundred of which are in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris . |
| 14 | The Surveyors-General frequently complained of depredations by local people upon the forest woods , and on one occasion at least appealed for aid to the titular head of the Forest administration . |
| 15 | The facade of the building at least escaped from rigour . |
| 16 | One or two , their horses killed under them , were held for a time unable to fall , and others slithered into the river , its shore by now churned into slime , and drowned there in their harness . |