Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The affiliated Hanbury bank in London merged in 1864 with another London bank of Quaker origins , Barnett , Hoare & Co. ; the new Barnetts , Hoares , Hanburys & Lloyd merged in turn with the main Lloyd bank of Birmingham in 1884 , bringing under one corporate roof connections that had their origins in the marriages more than a century before of the children of Sampson Lloyd II . |
| 32 | It appears that he stepped on one of those box mines placed in a gap in a hedgerow . |
| 33 | The Washington Redskins had more trouble than they should have with the injury-ridden Phoenix Cardinals before winning by two points while San Francisco relied on one of those Joe Montana come-from-behind specials to overcome New Orleans 24-20 . |
| 34 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 35 | Much of the energy at these wavelengths is absorbed by the atmosphere , which means that a remote sensing instrument such as the MSS or TM would , if it operated in one of these bands , be unable to see through the atmosphere and consequently would be unable to obtain any information about the surface of the Earth . |
| 36 | The efforts being made now to change these attitudes are seeking to reverse a trend which persisted for most of this century endorsed by official government attitudes to the care of the handicapped . |
| 37 | The outcome for Iraq and Syria was an effort at reconciliation , including the prospect of political union between the two , an elusive notion which collapsed in 1979 after many months of detailed and fruitless negotiation . |
| 38 | The two main underground opposition groups , the Front démocratique de libération de Djibouti ( FDLD ) , an Afar movement led by Mohamed Adoyta , and the Mouvement national djiboutien pour l'instauration de la démocratie ( MNDID ) , a group of Issas founded in 1986 by former Commerce Minister Aden Robleh Awale [ see p. 35180 ] , decided at a joint meeting in Brussels in February 1990 to form a common front , the Union des mouvements démocratiques ( UMD ) . |
| 39 | I worked on this for some time and extended , integrated and tried to twist it to my style . |
| 40 | She screamed for most of that night until at last she fell asleep . |
| 41 | I looked for one of those sandwich box things for Gerald in Sainsburys and they had n't got one . |
| 42 | In other cases , strong feelings have been aroused , and there has been one electronic punch-up. stated quite reasonably that Sheffield United are crap , and Julie Donnelly , a list member with Blade tendencies , told him what she thought of that in many words of few syllables . |
| 43 | It is unlikely that anyone thought of any of these possibilities when , in 1801 , a society was formed to investigate the nature and cure of cancer . |
| 44 | The second died of one of that class of terrible diseases which are the invariable consequences of habitual drinking ; and the third of apoplexy . |
| 45 | He felt like one of those astronomers who pumped radio waves out into the galaxies in the hope of finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe but never heard anything back . |
| 46 | By contrast , Shaw , communing with the computer and making a new friend , looked like one of those whiz-kids who , from their glass and concrete towers , manipulate the world 's money markets . |
| 47 | ‘ He looked like one of those gipsies your daddy sent away this morning , Angela . ’ |
| 48 | I looked like one of those peasant girls in the old folk-tales , the ones who never get to the ball . |
| 49 | The proportions whose answers fell into each of these categories were as follows : |
| 50 | Every time he went into one of those phone-booths , he had a mental image of something going wrong , of a faster-than-usual trace , of a plain-clothes policeman being only a few yards away , taking the alarm on his personal radio and walking up to the phone-booth . |
| 51 | The name ‘ Satis House ’ , however , CD took from that of another Rochester residence which stands on the site of the mansion of Richard Watts . |
| 52 | ‘ Soon afterwards I went to one of those Sunday auditions where agents used to sign up turns . |
| 53 | Do you know I actually listened to some of this tape and I do n't half sound different on the taped , the real me |
| 54 | ‘ Just because my daughter looked at one of these boys , they swore very loudly at her , ’ he said . |
| 55 | She looked at one of these pictures now , and smiled at it . |
| 56 | In the retail organisation looked at earlier in this chapter , this could start at the sales office , then to accounting , warehousing , production , buying and personnel . |
| 57 | You looked at some of those press releases this morning and time , place and date we touched on . |
| 58 | Therefore , if I just looked at some of those policy teams that I referred to in my presentation , I would expect , and it 's happening , that we would be taking on board , in each of those policy teams , the policy development work that 's applicable to Europe . |
| 59 | She surprised herself , the words came out , she had not thought about them or thought at all about this subject . |
| 60 | They also use a range of visual clues of the kind we spoke about earlier in this chapter . |