Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was rushed to Brompton Hospital where for five weeks he lay under continuous oxygen . |
| 2 | One day in April 1943 Albert Hoffmann , a chemist who was working at Sandoz on the development of ergot alkaloids , felt unwell and went home early , where for some hours he experienced a variety of disordered visions . |
| 3 | In 1858–9 he was in the service of the Admiralty , before returning to south Wales , where for ten years he was engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Sirhowy Tramroad , which he converted into a standard railway . |
| 4 | In 1923 he obtained two consultant posts as children 's physician , one at the Queen 's Hospital for Children , where for ten years he was in charge of the London county council rheumatic and heart clinic , and the other at Paddington Green Children 's Hospital , where he continued to work for nearly forty years . |
| 5 | When doctors announced that there was a glimmer of hope , Raine organized a private ambulance to take him to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square , central London where for several months he lay in a coma . |
| 6 | During or after such courses they may have acquired some additional external diplomas in organ-playing conducting , harmony and counterpoint . |
| 7 | I was lucky to move on from Manchester City Art Galleries where after seventeen years I ended up as Senior Keeper of Fine Art . |
| 8 | If " malice " is proved against a sole defendant or against all defendants it may aggravate the hurt and hence the final award . |
| 9 | There is an appropriation where in those circumstances he later assumes " a right to it by keeping or dealing with it as owner " . |
| 10 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 11 | or in some cases you get two intermediate routes |
| 12 | This may be charged on the actual amount of water you use or a percentage of it , or in some areas it may be based on the rateable value of your home . |
| 13 | When the children worked individually or in smaller groups he acted as adviser/supervisor to " wander round , look over shoulders , give encouragement , ask pertinent questions , look at folders of work , help on slow groups , etc. " ( ibid . ) |
| 14 | They all like a dryish soil in full sun ; in rich conditions or in shady spots they tend to grow too lush and produce too few flowers . |
| 15 | The hotel 's restaurant enjoys a good reputation , with a lovely first-floor terrace where on fine days you dine overlooking the lake . |
| 16 | This meant that for long periods they were uncomfortably silent because they could think of nothing to say . |
| 17 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |
| 18 | I started it basically on my own initiative and I said that for six months I would use it on people that I was going to sentence just to maintain a one judge control over the project and see how it was going . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , he realised that for political reasons it would be very difficult to do less than had been proposed in the Bill introduced in 1938 . |
| 20 | We regret that for practical reasons we can not accept cheques less than 7 days prior to date of departure . |
| 21 | ‘ After the tent blew down we renegotiated the situation so that for 11 performances they would receive the same fee . |
| 22 | He also became President of the Royal Society , so that for 5 years he led its activities in nurturing British science and ripening its fruits . |
| 23 | As my vouchers are used up in about four months each year this means that for eight months I 'm out of pocket using our stores for the weekly shop . |
| 24 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 25 | I should perhaps explain that for many years it had been a regulation in UK registered public transport aircraft that when flying below 15 000 feet hand operated microphones were prohibited . |
| 26 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 27 | The driver wound down his window and cursed him , adding that for two pins he 'd tell the police . |
| 28 | The procedure is often of great value , but it 's suggested that for two reasons it should only be used in urgent cases — both out of consideration for Land Registry staff , and to avoid the possibility of their being swamped by too many such applications , resulting in delay , which would defeat the whole purpose of the operation . |
| 29 | At the outset , a ‘ capital repayment holiday ’ of up to two years can be arranged — this means that for two years you only repay interest , reducing pressure on your cashflow . |
| 30 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |