Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | It sought to provide for workers ' retirement by broad , diversified investment in the American economy , that is , in equities . |
| 2 | Trouble was with old miners , they tended to exaggerate — a gleam of mineral seen decades previously often became transmogrified in mens ' minds to a wonderful thickness , be it lead , copper , tin , gold , or whatever . |
| 3 | He did n't always win , and occasionally he came a cropper — just as he 'd done at Masons ' gates a few days before . |
| 4 | The NVQ system allowed learning at students ' own speeds compared with the three-year registration period of the Institute , which might have to change to an annual registration period and fee as a consequence . |
| 5 | Something with the consistency of cement began to splatter from Peters ' ripped torso , but still he clung on to it in the renewed savagery of his hunger . |
| 6 | She visited Durham to see a friend and fell in love with the city and began to help with girls ' clubs in Durham and Sunderland . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , during October of 1756 , Anthony Tissington of Alfreton in Derbyshire , set men to work at Coniston on the westerly edge of the sett , that part which became known as Paddies ' End . |
| 8 | At 2.45 the car park started overflowing into neighbours ' drives . |
| 9 | He started talking about individuals ' opinion poll ratings . |
| 10 | They ‘ had a motor car placed at their disposal … and planned to arrive at Dennis ' home [ at Ancaster , near Sleaford ] at 9.30 , so as to have a glass that cheers , and then talk until midnight , the earliest time for signing . |
| 11 | In effect , it chose to pay for workers ' deferred consumption by staking a claim on America 's corporate profits . |
| 12 | The ‘ believer at second hand ’ , the one who believes through having heard the witness of those who believed ‘ at first hand ’ , i.e. the original disciples , must make the same leap of faith as they did to break through Jesus ' incognito : they have no advantage over him of the kind that a purely historical approach to Jesus might suggest . |
| 13 | The accident put paid to Blues ' thoughts of racing , but also rekindled his interest in the guitar . |
| 14 | On Tuesday night they easily put paid to Newtownards ' slight remaining hopes , by beating them 3.5–1.5 . |
| 15 | An independent inquiry carried out for the DTI by Sir Godfrey le Quesne QC in 1989 emphasised the reliance the DTI had placed on Spicers ' opinion in granting BC a licence in 1985 . |
| 16 | the months of winter which had added to Tullivers ' dereliction had kept buyers away , now gave way to spring . |
| 17 | Waiting while my partner continued grappling with Whillans ' finest , we chatted about the nature of climbing and discovered the stunning truth that climbers are pretty much the same in Sweden as they are in Britain or anywhere else . |
| 18 | Overseas branches had to conform to LDCs ' central bank requirements . |
| 19 | It is true that the problem of the balance of power between social classes and organs represented a more vital problem in modern Europe than it had done in Polybius ' Rome . |
| 20 | But their immediate occasion was as a response to the use that Sartre himself had made of Lévi-Strauss ' The Elementary Structures of kinship ( 1949 ) in the first Critique . |
| 21 | As Home Secretary , it was Ede who had written on Evans ' papers when considering whether there were any circumstances to justify a reprieve : ‘ The Law must take its course ’ . |
| 22 | Walking towards the station , having promised to bring back with her all sorts of expensive food items Tina had requested from Selfridges ' Food Hall , Cecilia thought how much she liked living on her own and that at seventy-six she was too old to have Jasper and Bienvida running around her , fond of them as she was , not to mention Tina 's boyfriends and the odd hours she kept and her lying in bed till noon . |
| 23 | In June 1990 the Lubbers government presented to parliament a revised National Environmental Plan replacing that which had brought down Lubbers ' previous centre-right coalition [ see pp. 36666-67 ; 36900 ] . |
| 24 | Her face was red from the steam and her hair had gone into rats ' tails . |
| 25 | Budd Hopkins delivered what they wanted — and endless stream of stories about abductions , accompanied by sketches of the aliens and bizarre slides of the tiny wounds their probings had left on victims ' bodies . |
| 26 | He had only known Heather for a few weeks , after all , and may well have been deceived by the impression she had created in Rhodes ' alien environment . |
| 27 | Instead an intelligence officer had ploughed through Mills ' personal effects and leafed through a random selection of files . |
| 28 | Also , she wondered if the taxi firms kept any kind of record of their more regular late-night destinations ; if she had to rely on drivers ' memories then there would n't be much hope , since on the evidence of the previous night they 'd mostly be part-timers with a high turnover . |
| 29 | Only in retrospect , after our detailed research , did it become clear to anyone what had transpired in GPs ' surgeries throughout Wirral in 1982–4 . |
| 30 | FEARS of an all-out fish war rose last night after European fisheries ministers refused to bow to catchers ' demands for a ban on imports . |