Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 2 | After the death of her mother in 1691 Celia moved to London to live either with or near her sister 's family . |
| 3 | He moved to Australia to box professionally , and fought there successfully for ten years until his attempt at the Australian middleweight title in 1890 , when he was defeated by Jim Hall . |
| 4 | When the time came for Chloe to leave home , Pauline became unduly worried about her health and constantly clucked over her like a mother hen to make sure she was alright . |
| 5 | So , with this in mind , he borrowed his Father 's van and drove towards Gloucester looking forward to a relaxing afternoon in the steam . |
| 6 | The specimens of C. purpurea I received from Penang differ vastly from the C. griffithii I obtained from Malaya and Indonesia . |
| 7 | He remembered how the travellers and the seafarers who came to Tara had always told that at the centre of every whirlpool , at the heart of every tempest , is a great tranquillity , and he caught and held on to this thought . |
| 8 | When you came to London to audition finally was it your first visit here ? |
| 9 | He fell ill of a fever at Padua , left Italy , and arrived in England resolved never to go abroad again . |
| 10 | So you feel the same enlightenment that happened to Dylan has also befallen you ? |
| 11 | Lots of them came rushing over to me and started stroking my face and wetting my brow and making a sort of wailing noise , and then three of them turned on Matt looking really nasty . |
| 12 | You would have thought that what happened at Tottenham had never happened on a football pitch before . |
| 13 | The equality of treatment boasted by GATT worked only among equals and to the detriment of the small . |
| 14 | In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books . |
| 15 | He was , after all , not a passionate man , and the new Jenna who returned from France had rather alarmed him . |
| 16 | The ‘ epidemic delusion ’ of Pantisocratic brotherhood had perhaps never been more powerful than at that moment , life on the banks of the Susquehannah never a more siren prospect , and a conversation which began by Coleridge asking Sarah if she would write to him when he returned to Cambridge led quickly to a proposal of marriage , which she accepted . |
| 17 | Before returning to Denmark , he touched at Sandwich to put ashore hostages given to his father , having first cut off their hands , ears and noses . |
| 18 | However confident the mass of the population may have felt in the durability of Britain 's world role , those who ruled in Britain knew full well the kind of dangers the country faced and the need to take steps to meet them … |
| 19 | Although commissions of array continued to be used for major expeditions led by the king or the Prince of Wales , such as those of 1346 and 1359 , the armies which fought in France came increasingly to consist of volunteers rather than conscripts ; and this in itself goes some way towards explaining popular support for the war . |
| 20 | Every time we talked about Jamila running away from home , where she could go and how we could get money to help her survive , she said , ‘ What about my mother ? ’ |
| 21 | They called for Iraq to withdraw unconditionally from Kuwait and to pay reparations for damage done , while declaring that the Palestinian question was the " first issue for the Arab world " and incorporating in an eight-point " Doha declaration " a clear expression of " complete support " and " absolute help " for the " historic uprising of the Palestinian people " . |
| 22 | It called on Slovenia to comply fully with the ceasefire , to relinquish control of its international borders by noon on July 7 , to release all army prisoners and equipment , to withdraw its armed units by midnight on July 4 and to lift the blockade of army units by noon on July 5 . |
| 23 | He waved at Lee to go away , but Lee climbed from the fence on to the garage roof , something Philip 's Dad had forbidden him to do . |
| 24 | On April 13 the then Oil Minister , Rashid al Amiri , announced that the time needed to extinguish oil fires started by Iraq had recently been estimated to be seven months rather than 24 months [ see also p. 38119 ] . |
| 25 | ‘ I imagined if we agreed to Jennifer going somewhere that would be that and she would n't come home again . ’ |
| 26 | But she worried about Jarvis having practically nothing to live on , as she saw it , though he never worried . |
| 27 | The door was opened almost immediately by a tiny grey-haired woman , who looked past Collins to stare hard at the two strangers standing behind him . |
| 28 | I 've never ev er the only one I 've ever been on , I went round Dorman Longs once |
| 29 | Parker 's 42nd century was a mixture of flowing drives and some sketchy mistiming on a slow , low-bouncing wicket which resulted in Oxford losing only two matches last season and none the year before . |
| 30 | Another bout of excessive discretion in the 1980s resulted in Britain designating just 27 beaches as having to meet EC water-quality standards — a number raised after negotiation with Brussels to more than 600 . |