Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For the members of Britian 's first Tall Persons ' Club , this inaugural gathering was a chance for some to have to look up to other people for a change .
2 Yet not all instances of theory replacement are quite so straightforward , for some have rumbled on for decades .
3 Mew modes of working have grown up round word processors , Apple Macs , data banks ( and now ) electronic cuttings services .
4 ‘ If word of this had got back to Connelly there 'd be gang war , ’ Hitch told him .
5 Much of this had come about as a direct result of the introduction of the GCSE , as these comments from the Head of Art at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ reveal :
6 So first of all enter to get out of help , and remember that you want
7 There was to be no repetition of the disaster two years previously in 1896 , when a crowd in excess of 60,000 had spilled on to the pitch .
8 But the evidence suggests that the fragile though real co-operation between liberals and workers of 1905 had broken down by the pre-war years .
9 How did people like that come to finish up in the holocaust that happened here ?
10 Er also feel that the people the companies are not making services actually got because they were against these making go out in the evenings because the last bus leaves the town centre at six thirty .
11 So great is the traffic between those striving to clamber down to the sea and those who , having spawned , are attempting to get back again , that many can not reach the water .
12 Forty-eight of the firms listed in 1984 had dropped out by 1986 ; the real increase in new firms between 1984 and 1986 — fuelled by the Big Bang — was thus 160 .
13 Henry Robb had arrived in Leith in 1913 as yard manager for Ramage & Ferguson but in 1918 decided to branch out on his own as a ship repairer .
14 The cost of a similar outing to Waringstown in 1902 had gone up to over £10-0-0 .
15 The Sino-British talks on Patten 's plan to broaden democracy in Hong Kong before it reverts to Chinese rule in 1997 have dragged on since April with little hint of progress .
16 But the building of the Berlin wall in 1961 cut Pischel off from his livelihood .
17 And Notts who were two down in twenty have battled back to two apiece .
18 About the only thing that will keep the Chancellor singing in his bath is that three in four want to stay out of the exchange rate mechanism .
19 Otherwise it was something to be put across in demonstration-lectures to those wanting to keep up with what was going on , but not to bother with too much detail .
20 In fact he sold the tapestry to an innocent purchaser without first having referred back to his principal .
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