Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [verb] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happens now ? ’ she finally asked when the silence between them had become stretched to breaking-point . |
| 2 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 3 | Such women ( I include myself ) are probably a majority in the movement ( it was the sort of feeling that brought us into it in the first place , and anyway we have more time than mothers ) but not among women as a whole , most of whom appear to want to spend at least part of their lives having and raising children . |
| 4 | Its specialist , academic , authoritarian elements have been persistently criticized , partly because they ignored progressives ' demands for children 's activity , participation and development through discovery , and partly because of the perceived irrelevance of this education to the lives of working-class children , the majority of whom have failed to benefit from it . |
| 5 | I mean most of them had to go chaperoned to lectures and things . |
| 6 | Some of them had started to run towards the falling Ship . |
| 7 | She was now all amiability — a quality none of them had looked to discover in her . |
| 8 | Many of them had had to wrestle for years with their consciences and suffer agonies of anxiety and insecurity before they could finally convince themselves that they were included within the elect group of saints which was predestined for heaven . |
| 9 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 10 | We know the approximate age of eight English bishops who were in possession of their sees in 1153 : all of them seem to have lived to be over seventy . |
| 11 | Very few of them seem to have profited from their careers in anything but a short-term way . |
| 12 | The Secretary of State put before us a whole catalogue of countries that have ballistic missile capability , and a substantial number of them appear to have embarked on a nuclear weapons programme . |
| 13 | So many of them have come to look at it and gone away promising to let me know — and then , not another word . ’ |
| 14 | Prescott is right in restating old principles , some of which have become obscured in the rush for the political centre ground . |
| 15 | Reduced peripheral blood T lymphocyte counts , impaired macrophage function , and diminished cutaneous responses to a variety of antigenic stimuli have been reported , all of which have tended to return to normal after antibiotic treatment . |
| 16 | " No , do n't , leave it alone , " the irrepressible cry of one born knowing sprang from Lalage as she watched Nicandra 's efforts to control the blonde strands of hair blowing , light as ducks ' down , on the back of her neck . |
| 17 | Her image of herself tended to change according to which mirror she had last looked into or which person she had last spoken to . |
| 18 | Grunte , who had little time for the Third World , said that as far as he was concerned , most of it seemed to have moved to Birmingham . |
| 19 | But with the government forced , this week , to remove all reference to the parts of the treaty that deal with workers ' rights , the exact form of what gets ratified remains in doubt . |
| 20 | The design of the interface is based on its use of what have become known as ‘ real-world metaphors ’ . |
| 21 | THE appeal of what have become known as ‘ leisure vehicles ’ just seems to grow and grow . |
| 22 | Out of what 's left a bit more than half of what 's left goes on sweets and a bit less than half goes on stationery . |
| 23 | Paradoxically , in most years the outcome of the Defence budgetary process is under-rather than overspending , and this is not because the accounting officers fear the wrath of Parliament , but because of what has become known as the ‘ Bow-Wave Phenomenon ’ , illustrated in figure 3 . |
| 24 | The results of these and other experiments fit in well with the predictions of what has become known as the standard electroweak model . |
| 25 | This gives rise to the danger of what has become known as the two-thirds , one-third society in which the majority obtains secure well-paid full-time ‘ core ’ jobs and the minority become ‘ marginalised ’ , obtaining less well-paid , part-time , temporary , ‘ peripheral ’ jobs and hovering on the verge of poverty . |
| 26 | Any description of the service sector has to take into account the legacy of what has become known as the Fisher/Clark thesis or the ‘ three-sector , model of economic growth . |
| 27 | What is seldom revealed in the history books , though perfectly easy to verify , is that Darwin 's contribution was less a paper than a rambling series of notes which contained nothing novel , whereas Wallace 's " Ternate " paper was the first complete exposition in writing of " Descent and Divergence with modification through variation and Natural Selection " — which is the very kernel of what has become known as the " Darwinian " theory of evolution . |
| 28 | Willy-nilly one is thus forced to extend the reductivist argument and adopt the position of what has become known as the " redundancy theory of truth " . |
| 29 | Doonican , who rose to fame some 20 years ago with hits such as ‘ Elusive Butterfly ’ and ‘ Walk Tall ’ , suffered a drop in popularity when , at the height of what has become known as the ‘ swinging London ’ phenomenon , he revealed a fondness for rocking chairs and ‘ a cup of Typhoo ’ . |
| 30 | These days , however , far from being likely to ignore everyone at a party full of naked birds , Doonican has become king of what has become known as the ‘ light entertainment ’ circuit in the north-east of England . |