Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Playing against Celtic , however , is generally supposed to be difficult for someone who formerly captained the club and could not say that his regard for them ended on the day he was transferred . |
| 2 | A group apart , the links between them welded by the sheer weight of society pressing down upon them . |
| 3 | The patter that passed between them spoke of an easy familiarity , and was so fast and allusive that I could hardly follow it . |
| 4 | For this the British and French between them lost in the region of 600,000 men ; the Germans more than 440,000 . |
| 5 | Any fears , however , that Havel 's talent might be going off were for me resolved by the broadcast version of Redevelopment , given a dramatised reading by the RSC in February under the title Slum Clearance . |
| 6 | The letter she had left for me remained in the possession of the police as evidence . |
| 7 | Billie was fast asleep ; it had been a long and boring trip for someone crammed in the back . |
| 8 | The humid heat of the New Guinea forest had probably proven too much for someone used to the dank climate of south Wales , they reassured Joan . |
| 9 | ‘ This man Siward : how can he hope to hold Lothian , so far from York and from Durham , with a strength such as yours massed to the north of him ? |
| 10 | Yes , half way through I spoke to the environ environment officer |
| 11 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 12 | After what seemed like a good twenty minutes of this he took a handful of rice from a gourd at his belt and scattered it over the waters . |
| 13 | After what seemed like a couple of hours , but was actually about twenty seconds , she began to rise involuntarily , and something bumped her shoulder painfully . |
| 14 | After What seemed like a shattering day , I sat on the bus but this time the journey was much more jovial as relief sunk in . |
| 15 | After what seemed like an age , he heard the metal window catch being released . |
| 16 | After what seemed like an eternity of fearsome noise and choking dust caused by the rockfall , John took stock of his situation . |
| 17 | We had arrived in San Francisco on Monday , after what seemed like an extremely long flight . |
| 18 | Play eventually restarted , after what seemed like an age , and meandered to an early finish , but the freak accident served to relegate other matters — the remaining overs , a protracted row involving the England players and team manager and a cameraman attempting to capture the stretcher scene on film , and even the imminence of both countries announcing their World Cup squads — to items of secondary importance . |
| 19 | And after what seemed like an eternity the door opened — and she stared in surprise and disbelief at the tall black-haired man with the blue , blue eyes . |
| 20 | At last , after what seemed like an eternity of waiting , his mouth took possession of hers and she whimpered deep in her throat , pressing closer to him , her breasts flattening against the solid wall of his chest . |
| 21 | After what happened to the poor idiot , Donny , at Sallins , just two miles down the road , an Arbuthnot would n't be a trouble to their consciences . |
| 22 | ‘ Would ye after what happened on the way up to Cajamarca ? ’ |
| 23 | Another , more startling , departure was the introduction of regular team talks , the idea for which came on a train travelling back from an away match . |
| 24 | In 1987 there were 3,500 new recruits , each of whom passed through a formal selection process . |
| 25 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 26 | Other able practitioners of homoeopathy in America were Allen , Nash , Boenninghausen and Boericke — all of whom added to the homoeopathic literature and whose work is still used today by students of homoeopathy . |
| 27 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 28 | The Korean communists at Yenan probably numbered about 300 , some of whom fought with the CCF . |
| 29 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 30 | They found it hard to understand what he saw in the boys he now surrounded himself with , some of whom seemed to the girls stupid and callow and bad at drawing . |