Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd have gone there last year but for the shin splints ’ she added , before a note of irritation and frustration became evident as she went on to say ‘ This question haunted me for half of last year . |
| 2 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |
| 3 | He mentioned it to several of his male colleagues . |
| 4 | But then I got the ES295 and I used it through most of the Sun sessions . |
| 5 | She recognised them as some of the soldiers immediately . |
| 6 | Little Liz told me about some of them . |
| 7 | On another occasion , a lovely lady called Elsa who came to tidy my room , and who was from a South American country , took me into her confidence and told me about some of the problems she was facing . |
| 8 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 9 | It then grabbed the food and quickly ate it before any of the others could steal it . |
| 10 | Some historians have argued that , once the Indians had become part of the Christian community , their cause was championed by the church who protected them from some of the worst excesses of colonial power ( Poblete 1970 ) . |
| 11 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 12 | He certainly talked about such things , defended them against some of their critics ; but his business , what engrossed him and what he knew well , was the school . |
| 13 | Marion refilled it for each of them . |
| 14 | In addition , the commission claimed that García removed US$50,000,000 from the BCCI accounts and dispersed it in several of his own private bank accounts . |
| 15 | ‘ I showed it to some of my friends and they have had a good laugh about it . |
| 16 | Harold Evans clearly had seen the List and regaled me with some of its more unlikely names . |
| 17 | Wally Smott 's mediocrity raised him above many of the managers who guided the club over the years , but Athletico reserved a bottom six position from 1951 to 1955 and Ken Mentle 's dream of League football became a nightmare . |
| 18 | I just thought I 'd tell you that in case you needed it in any of your essays . |
| 19 | Then I took some smaller bombs and planted them inside some of the rabbit holes , stamping down the roofs of the tunnel entrances so that they caved in and left only the straw fuses sticking out . |
| 20 | They sent me on some of the better stories . |
| 21 | David Quarmby helped her in choosing these topics and assisted her with some of her coursework . |
| 22 | His spare time took him to many of Yorkshire 's fixtures . |
| 23 | While much of the journeying was in Britain and Ireland , his half-dozen ventures abroad took him across much of continental Europe . |
| 24 | We both altered so much that when we went back to Middleton , Dave Fielding saw it in both of us , ’ she says . |
| 25 | This talk/slide show took us to many of the stations forming part of the former Cambrian system . |
| 26 | It was during these anxious weeks of searching that Halim , our grave-robbing friend , took us to another of his Ming-porcelain burial-grounds , located several hours from Makassar and about half an hour 's march from the nearest hamlet . |
| 27 | She took up the piano and , according to her headmistress Ruth Rudge , ‘ made phenomenal progress for someone who started late ’ ; and although she never made it into any of the school teams , she loved tennis . |
| 28 | His work reminded me of that of Kyffin Williams , the Artist of Anglesey . |
| 29 | Their neat bottoms reminded me of those of failed bullfighters . |
| 30 | The frame around them is extremely heavy , but I chose it because it reminded me of some of the heavier framed Victorian pictures that have a botanical feel . |