Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the 47 cases decided , Mr Platt ruled wholly in favour of the complainant in 18 and partly in four . |
| 2 | By 1558 the Portuguese voyages around Africa and into the Indian Ocean , and the Spanish voyages to America which led on by way of the Philippines to the circumnavigation of the globe had made it possible to draw maps which , though they were wrong in important details , showed what the world was really like . |
| 3 | What to do , how to do it and when to do it are instructions passed on by word of mouth from one generation to the next . |
| 4 | They had been observed by the disciples and passed on by word of mouth . |
| 5 | John got down in front of Dad and looked up into his face and said , ‘ It 's our flight . ’ |
| 6 | In redrawing boundaries the commissions are guided by rules laid down by act of Parliament . |
| 7 | Out of the school , how many of them got in at Sound of Music out of those hundred kids ? |
| 8 | His small , glistening secretary plunged along in front of him like a dolphin under the bowsprit . |
| 9 | It was their tree ; although distant from Nana 's house , it was one of several passed down as part of the family 's inheritance . |
| 10 | The second was a law enforcement action brought by the Crown ; he referred in particular to such an action brought under a statute which provided expressly for enforcement of a provision of the statute by civil proceedings by the Crown , which was the position in the Hoffmann-La Roche case [ 1975 ] A.C. 295 where the Crown was proceeding pursuant to a provision of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices ( Inquiry and Control ) Act 1948 . |
| 11 | Joyce , frustrated , moved on to consideration of yesterday 's weather , complaints about the new trainee and an attempt to enlist Helen 's support in resisting the county librarian 's enthusiasm for a local history section at Spaxton . |
| 12 | Her eyes flickered nervously in anticipation of the eruption of that anger . |
| 13 | For some reason , he disliked it when she behaved badly in front of Marjorie . |
| 14 | Kragan knelt down in front of Adam and looked at him as a butcher would appraise a cut of meat . |
| 15 | Stony-faced Lucenzo seated her in an opulently covered settle and knelt down in front of her , holding her hands and looking thunderous . |
| 16 | He knelt down in front of her stereo system . |
| 17 | Most off the shelf PCs these days come equipped with a graphics controller card which is either a card fitted into a vacant expansion slot or built in as part of the motherboard . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , the Employment Appeal Tribunal held that the termination date occurred only upon expiry of the 12-week notice period . |
| 19 | The girl 's parents had arranged a surprise pre-wedding party for friends and relatives , with the vicar who was to marry them invited along as guest of honour . |
| 20 | In 1926 would be the General Strike when Welsh miners marched the two hundred miles to London , their trail easy to follow by the black-blood spat along the road , while back at home the troops moved in for fear of revolution . |
| 21 | Colin Harbury moved elsewhere as Professor of Economics . |
| 22 | And then it moved over to sort of VAXes as well . |
| 23 | She moved away in front of them . |
| 24 | With another little smile , she moved away in search of her future , if temporary guide . |
| 25 | She charged off in search of her mother . |
| 26 | Figure 1.1 shows the three types of text , listed left-to-right in order of their recognition complexity . |
| 27 | Dr Ali , suddenly submissive , moved quickly in front of him and opened it . |
| 28 | A huge curtain of grey cliff rose up in front of him , the lie of the ground making its appearance seem instant and magical , like scenery in a theatre . |
| 29 | The clouds rose up in front of God 's throne . |
| 30 | As the car drew up in front of the Lodge with a crunch of gravel , Detective Sergeant Allen strode out to meet them . |