Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] of [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have studied the sediment from the bottom of Loch Ness and Loch Morar to discover whether the sea entered either of them after the last ice age . |
| 2 | I do n't think we actually used any of them in the end but it has got that cinematic imagery to it . ’ |
| 3 | There was still some of the food in the bag , and I dropped some of it onto the ground . |
| 4 | At the stroke of a pen they removed hundreds of thousands of needy youngsters from the benefit system and condemned many of them to a life of mendicant poverty , many also slipped into prostitution . |
| 5 | A slim hand shook each of theirs in a powerful grip . |
| 6 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 7 | One morning Kalchu came up from the stable with a bowl of warm milk and poured half of it into a separate container for me . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , I just heard some of it on the radio . |
| 9 | Oliver spent all of his on the plastic ducks and collected ten prizes . |
| 10 | It so happens I spent most of mine at the cinema . |
| 11 | Not only that , it pulled some of them off the gate and threw them away . |
| 12 | Apart from joining us for the evening meal and when she ran short of pesetas , we saw little of her for the rest of the holiday . |
| 13 | Aye , Master Joe , you 'd suppose not if you saw some of them from the towns . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 15 | For it 's time they saw more of me in the south , Iago , where I shall not be expected . |
| 16 | Long afterwards neglect , culminating in damage and destruction , almost destroyed Painshill , until Elmbridge borough council acquired most of it for the Painshill Park Trust , which revived Hamilton 's original designs through a vigorous programme of renewal . |
| 17 | Nothing Ruth had ever imagined prepared her for the magnificence of that day 's scene on the Mersey , though she saw most of it through a mist of tears . |
| 18 | It is important to note that any of these items can occur with anybody , en when there is no addictive disease , and that some people may even eve experienced several of them over the years . |
| 19 | Nathan nodded his thanks as the waiter presented each of them with a leather-bound menu . |
| 20 | He was rehearsing Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night and the lines had fled ; what he hung on to was the physical business , and when he did some of it to the mirror it seemed poor stuff for the old Living Boomerang . |
| 21 | The harshness of the alcohol took his breath away and made him choke again , and Paul collapsed in a fit of laughter as he expelled half of it in a further bout of coughing . |
| 22 | I fetched more glasses and dealt some of them to the Lorrimores who were an oasis of silence in the chattering mob and paid me absolutely no attention : and from then on I felt I had indeed chosen the right role and could sustain it indefinitely . |
| 23 | Having taken better care of it than Besty , or more accurately Besty 's hangers on , he invested some of it in a Sydney sports shop a few months ago , which he 'll run when he retires . |
| 24 | He kept up an unrelenting gentle moral pressure on his authors or collaborators , and as a commentator , like Tolkien he selflessly put much of himself into the work of others . |
| 25 | Sam had been responsible for the departure of her mother 's lover , but Pam had not complained openly , since it put all of them in a bad light : her lover had been revealed as pusillanimous , Sam as a harridan and herself as a person of no control or strength of will . |
| 26 | Gloucester18 Bath27 BATH reached the final of the cup for the seventh time in nine years when they scored two tries in the last five minutes of extra-time at Kingsholm and Stuart Barnes converted both of them from the touchline . |
| 27 | But she gave most of it to a charity promoting adult literacy , living instead on the £115,000 presidential salary . |
| 28 | The procedure was that Private Boyd handed us each a belt complete with pistol holster and ammo pouches and then Sergeant Waters launched each of us through the door with a pat on the shoulder , telling us we had one minute 's start . |
| 29 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 30 | No matter how Boswell did it physically — and later it will transpire that he wrote some of it in a notebook Johnson gave him ; no matter how he proceeded editorially , whether through a combination of this abbreviated writing , then checking afterwards what was said , and finally choosing — or agreeing — how much of Johnson 's commentary and observation he should release , Boswell achieved something at least as important as a legally accurate record — he created , above everything , the feel of a full account . |