Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is noteworthy that more than half did equivalent or higher level courses than those they applied for at the institutions we covered . |
| 2 | Wigs were out of the question because of the cost , and most of the changes John asked for in the designs were for simplicity in making and comfort in wearing . |
| 3 | It oozed from under the rugs and the thatches of Grecian 2000 ; made atlases of blouses and bulging summerweight suits ; flowed in fan-shaped alluvial deltas down barer , pocky/downy carcinogenically tanned backs . |
| 4 | She surfaced from under the sheets and her father saw that her hair was wound on huge electrically heated rollers . |
| 5 | The nature of the cleavages identified and capitalized upon by the parties reflects the structure of the society although if certain cleavages are ignored by parties ( thereby ‘ organizing out ’ certain biases ) the party system need not faithfully represent all the divisions within a society . |
| 6 | The ‘ organisation man ’ picture is largely that referred to by the novelists we reviewed in Chapter 1 . |
| 7 | ‘ Girl , never doubt but he 'll come back to you whole and hungry , as he always used to from the butts or the wrestling when you were fretting over his lateness . ’ |
| 8 | If the latter , they probably came from across the seas . |
| 9 | He was the outsider , he came from beyond the corrals of the big camp , from beyond the wire of the little camp . |
| 10 | who had an estate and there were St Trinian 's incidentally er , inciden that 's where the name came from for the books and friend of theirs and relation of his wrote the book I do n't know , something like that , and anyhow eventually I got |
| 11 | Finn came from between the curtains , tense and preoccupied . |
| 12 | Then a stomping noise came from behind the kids and I saw some massive black rubber boots coming slowly down the stairs . |
| 13 | The outer door to the estate office slammed and the inner one opened with its uneasy stick and snuffle past the strips of draught-excluders worn down and added to over the years . |
| 14 | Defeat for the Welsh All Blacks , particularly at the fortress that is The Gnoll , is a rare occurrence , hated by the players , frowned upon by the coaches and detested by the increasing army of fans who continue to pack the ground . |
| 15 | Only the clock tower on the stables showed from behind the trees . |
| 16 | Nuadu thought that a glitter of amusement showed from within the folds of the hood . |
| 17 | Out of the front window he saw the ‘ For Sale ’ sign , the white paint of the board showing up in the light that shone from between the curtains of Tom 's cottage . |
| 18 | Yet this has not been the only old law turned to by the police . |
| 19 | Girouard mentions that the Duke of Portland sacked any housemaid he met with in the corridors , and that a certain Lord M in Wiltshire never spoke to a servant unless to give an order . |
| 20 | Central 's Village Earth series , which began with in the footsteps of the Incas ( ITV , 7 March ) , bids fair to be an exception . |
| 21 | She took a deep breath and stepped from behind the curtains . |
| 22 | Lee 's hid some gunpowder he swiped from under the Arches and I 'm gon na pinch it off him . ’ |
| 23 | Thus deceived , lied to by the leaders they had trusted , in the chill , grey dawn on Friday 6 December 1745 the unbeaten Jacobite army turned its back on its objective and the long and pointless retreat — pointless because they could never hope for a better opportunity than this — began . |
| 24 | One had a recurrence of an old back injury involving a disc which bulged from between the vertebrae from time to time , causing intense pain , and the other was a young secretary with period pains . |
| 25 | In Brewster ( 1979 ) 69 Cr App R 375 ( CA ) , an insurance agent was guilty of theft of the premiums because the money had to be handed over to the companies he worked for under the terms of his contract . |
| 26 | The jury at his trial at Bristol Crown Court has been told that Hagans watched the offices where Mrs McGurk worked from behind the bars of his prison cell before he was granted bail.The court has been told that after the murder , he tried to sell the victim 's wedding ring . |
| 27 | Stella watched from behind the poplars as the comedian 's limousine bumped up the path to where Vernon lay . |
| 28 | CAMERAMAN Sean Colborn got more than he bargained for at a police auction — he bought a do-it-yourself BURGLARY kit . |
| 29 | The analysis which follows in the succeeding five chapters attempts to show that they are irksome ; and indeed many are immovable without other deep-seated changes in society ; and that these can not be advocated or struggled for on the grounds of soil conservation alone . |
| 30 | There were different nuances in terms of what people thought of as the barriers and how they thought they could be overcome . |