Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [coord] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Roman world it was probably responsible for any expansions which occurred in trade and equally for any constraints that existed . |
| 2 | With his mother he moved to Cronberry and then to Crofthead , near Ayr . |
| 3 | This marks the site of the Chapel of St Matthew built by Kaňka but only in existence until the 1790s . |
| 4 | Cecil urged Asquith to do the same , but , Chamberlain said , Asquith ‘ would not allow ( him ) to develop this idea , which he rejected with indignation and even with scorn . ’ |
| 5 | Other American relatives came in August and then at the beginning of September he went to Switzerland again . |
| 6 | It the impetus came I think largely from feminism and it was perhaps a way of of y'know kind of erm because there was a great deal of interest , particularly in the seventies , in cataloguing and understanding the various ways in which women were oppressed and this is one of the things came to light and often through things like consciousness raising groups . |
| 7 | Circumstance cc , we take it , consisted in C and also in c " , C " , … |
| 8 | The suspicion in Graham 's voice turned to puzzlement and then to excitement . |
| 9 | He replied at length and almost at once . |
| 10 | In Tables 6.2 and 6.3 the differences between the two groups are all in the expected direction , with the scale of the difference between the less costly and more costly being very similar for both variables ; some of the differences are large enough to be statistically significant , for example that between those who lived with others or alone in Newham at second assessment ( significant at the one per cent level ) . |
| 11 | His large family lived on the floor above and scampered between hotel and home by climbing through a window and up a fire escape . |
| 12 | Had it not been for the First World War I might have been sent to school in England , separated indefinitely from my parents , as was the fate of so many English children whose fathers served in India or elsewhere in the East . |
| 13 | In a reference to Iceland , Norway and Turkey , which belonged to NATO but neither to the EC nor to the WEU [ see p. 38216 ] , ministers said that " Allies that are not participating in the development of a European defence identity … should be adequately involved in decisions that affect their security " . |
| 14 | In Canto 74 for instance , there are lines which allude to the Magdalenian cave-paintings discovered at Lascaux and elsewhere in this region of Perigord and Limousin : |
| 15 | The Muzak played ‘ Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head ’ and they talked about Italy and then about nothing very much . |
| 16 | He talked to Tuathal and then to the toisechs as he put on his mail shirt again and took up his helmet . |
| 17 | Although his yearly stipend only amounted to £6.00 or so in today 's values , he was soon witnessed to be spending the equivalent of thousands of pounds on various good works for his village . |
| 18 | She thought of Nick and then of Stephen . |
| 19 | Pathological dendrite formation in neurons of the substantia nigra has been found in brains of infants who died of SIDS and also in infants with intrauterine growth retardation . |
| 20 | Such women went to doctors but rarely on their own account , largely because they could not afford to do so . |
| 21 | To illustrate , let us eavesdrop on Mrs Smith : ‘ I went to that little shop on the corner , you know the one , bought by Miss Thingambob when poor old Mr Whatshisname went to Australia or somewhere with his asthma . |
| 22 | Professor Plop and the Timemachine , he made a timemachine , went to Egypt and instead of having Tuten Khamoun in headdress he had Tuten Khamoun in headphones . |
| 23 | But we now realize the extent to which these scientists looked to France and later to Germany for a lead . |
| 24 | In 1370 he was with Sir John Chandos [ q.v. ] when he fell at Lussac and subsequently with Sir Robert Knollys [ q.v. ] in Picardy . |
| 25 | He looked at Rilla and then at Kiah . |
| 26 | Zadak looked at Kiah and then at Rilla with his blue eyes . |
| 27 | Let me put this to Geoffrey Hoskin , Professor Hoskin we 've heard of a people ruled by Tsars and then by , is there going to be any thing but anarchy now ? |
| 28 | Poor men in towns travelled for necessity but rarely for pleasure , except on foot — the autobiographies of self-improving Victorian artisans are full of titanic country walks — and for short periods . |
| 29 | He was educated at Westminster School , where he specialized in classics and then in science , which he continued at King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 30 | After Fortunatus left the Austrasian kingdom he travelled to Tours and ultimately to Poitiers , where he became bishop in the last years of his life . |