Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The 1987 stock market debacle warned of and ultimately led to the worldwide slump of the 1990s .
2 He fumbled for and finally pounced on the right word , ‘ Of torihada in my legs . ’
3 Thus sign ; the membership demand curve is negatively sloped for and positively sloped for , as shown in Fig. 1 .
4 Brigadier and Mrs. Carter lived in a large house in Brown Street — he was fat , very pompous with a waxed moustache , having exceptionally long spikes ; Major Forbes from Fowlers Hill , who not only looked like but also dressed like King George V — whether by accident or design I do n't know , Mrs. Bowyer , the widow of an Australian Bishop who lived in Fowlers Road was very big and wore outsize hats which accentuated her size and finally the Headmaster , Mr. E.J. Russ .
5 A man she had never seen before or since came at night .
6 The injection of considerable sums of federal money into many American schools in the 1960s , together with the programmes and methodologies that resulted , arose from and sometimes led to the conclusion that change in education was primarily a matter of provision .
7 I was lucky in my tutors and my college , and like so many young men before and since fell in love with the place .
8 Though much scholastic research and numerous books were written on the subject , the attack was only uncomfortably alluded to and often circumscribed in Hollywood 's efforts to cinematically present the war .
9 When I went in , I carried on into the kitchen without taking my coat off , put the kettle on and then went into the living room .
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