Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Chairman I I really have to say I do n't I do n't really agree with the assertion that the policy is is essentially more restrictive than than er P P G seven will indicate and I would endorse what er Patrick Earle has said in in that regard . |
| 2 | Bad harvests , meanwhile , had once again forced wheat up to famine prices , and the ‘ outbreak of peace ’ after the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 was to herald what C. P. Hill has referred to as ‘ one of the grimmest periods in modern British History ’ . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , it was reported that the number of Palestinians in Kuwait had fallen to between 150,000 and 200,000 ( half the number resident before the Iraqi invasion ) following a mass exodus prompted by fears of continued harassment [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ] . |
| 4 | There were the ‘ Carry Ons ’ , a new radio series with Kenneth Horne — Beyond Our Ken had matured into Round The Horne and was better than anything he had done on air before . |
| 5 | ‘ Come on , ’ he murmured under his breath , glancing at his watch , wondering where the hell Carol had got to at nine-forty in the morning . |
| 6 | Simon had moved in at once . |
| 7 | It is what John Triseliotis has referred to as ‘ a family for life , with its network of support systems not only for them but also for their future children ’ . |
| 8 | Well , there 's nothing , as I understand it there is nothing in the Law Society guidelines but there are certainly references in the professional conduct guidelines which Mr has referred to in the course of this report er which referred to the extent of solicitors in the situation . |
| 9 | And I draw on the same manual of environmental appraisal that erm Mr has mentioned in in his evidence , the Department of Transport 's manual . |
| 10 | Everyone except Rogers and Delaforce had scored with at least part of a burst . |
| 11 | The reasons for Orchomenos ' special role were geographical : she controlled the northern plain and Thebes the southern ; and also historical : Mycenaean Orchomenos had counted for at least as much as Thebes , and Orchomenos still had pretensions to lead Boiotia in the eighth century . |
| 12 | Men Paddy had worked with at Smith 's trooped past ; so did the neighbours who had stood here before when he had buried Eileen . |
| 13 | She started crying , and within two minutes Aubrey had arrived from round the corner , with some others behind him . |
| 14 | Among those instruments were what Van Gelder had referred to as the spy-glass . |
| 15 | Eagle argued that Mr Ferriday had arranged for its money to be used to satisfy his obligations under the sub-underwriting arrangements that Savory Milln had entered into in circumstances in which Savory Milln ought to have known or been put on inquiry that the money had been misappropriated from Eagle . |
| 16 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 17 | He was told in detail of the fields Riddle had bought from under Sidney 's very nose and how Riddle then served him with notice to quit . |
| 18 | She saw the building that Adolph Brückner had looked at on his arrival that day , the pain in his head threatening like the thunder clouds that were drifting back over the mountain tops . |
| 19 | There is now a glimmer of hope … this is the first reasonable amount of water a pond in Blewberry has had for at least two years . |
| 20 | The pragmatism of political urgency must be allowed to sully the purity of intellectual thought ; what is needed , at least in the short term , is what Gayatri Spivak has referred to as a kind of ‘ strategic essentialism ’ . |
| 21 | And a curious coincidence — Livingstone Manor was the English country home of Franklin D. Hauser , President and Chief Executive of INCUBUS Inc. , the giant American organization Sandy had worked for until recently . |
| 22 | There were units that all fitted together like a continuous counter rather than the cupboards and tables of different sizes that Emily had lived with for twenty-five years . |
| 23 | UNESCO is the third such agency that the US has withdrawn from in less than a decade . |
| 24 | They were near the university , where the nice ones lived , the area which Mallachy had graduated to since embarking on the life theatrical . |
| 25 | The girl 's eyes were exactly like the turquoise blue marbles he and Peter Naulls had played with as children . |
| 26 | It sounded as if her plans had changed at the last minute and , embarrassed by all the trouble Andrew had gone to on her behalf , she had taken the easy way out by returning the keys without a message . |
| 27 | Mathers had pointed from behind the windshield . |
| 28 | On the Shankhill Road they saw by accident a person whom Joan had talked with during the WLAA campaign for legal justice . |
| 29 | The team found that the supply of fresh water for all purposes in Baghdad had fallen to between 5 and 20 litres per person per day compared with 500 litres before the war , and that diarrhoeal diseases among children had quadrupled . |
| 30 | In February 1855 Moscow 's gentry assembly chose the retired liberal general , A. P. Ermolov ( one-time ruler of the Caucasus ) , to raise the supplementary armed forces which Nicholas had called for at the end of the previous month . |