Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this application of standard formula upset Selby for reasons we heard this morning , and it upsel =set us because it did n't seem to be taking the real situation into account . |
| 2 | I suspected there was a mystery behind his banal description of a parchment-seller born and raised at Nantes in Brittany ; a stationer who knew how to work the new presses from Gutenberg and , for reasons he kept to himself , had moved both his family and business to England . |
| 3 | His father 's favouring of Chuck had forced him to turn to her increasingly for solace , and that some unimaginable selfishness should have driven her to commit her dreadful act of desertion baffled and disturbed him deeply for reasons he did n't begin to understand . |
| 4 | OK , so her date with O'Shea had n't turned out as he 'd imagined , but the fact remained she had chosen her old college buddy over him — a fact that rankled for reasons he did n't care to examine . |
| 5 | We are not happy with the Labour resolution for reasons I indicated earlier . |
| 6 | Her mother had her full permission to tell him so , for reasons she had bitterly and eloquently specified . |
| 7 | When I caddy for Matt he made loads of putts , it 's was well cool . |
| 8 | We talked about hair we talked about make-up . |
| 9 | I certainly learnt next to nothing at St Aubyn 's and when I took the Common Entrance examination for Eton I failed so ignominiously that the authorities wrote to my mother that it would be futile for me to try again . |
| 10 | And for Mum it had to be Tom or Englebert . |
| 11 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 12 | The most important challenge to the laissez faire mentality within Congregationalism came from Joseph Parker in 1901 when as Chairman he placed a cat among the pigeons with his usual dexterity . |
| 13 | Using the walls for support I made a slow tour of every inch of the building , stopping frequently to squeeze the dizziness from my skull . |
| 14 | Calling on Lenin for support he claimed that the interests of French colonies , including the Indochinese , were best served by a ‘ free , trusting and paternal union with France ’ . |
| 15 | When I took her to a school for admission they sent us to the Education department . |
| 16 | Herzen observed a " sharp and remarkable " difference between essays he received from Russia in 1856 and those that had arrived in 1855 . |
| 17 | Some doctors have even put their patients through operations they did n't need . |
| 18 | On his way home through Weatherbury he saw the coach from Bath . |
| 19 | Marlowe was charming , witty , and very , very funny , but there was something about Millet I did n't like . ) |
| 20 | For hours we searched the forests on the western slopes — nothing . |
| 21 | Then for hours we gutted the living , flapping fish and threw them into baskets to be carried below and put on ice . |
| 22 | He had also taken to haunting the Holborn offices of The Little Magazine : for hours he sat crouched in the coffee bars and sandwich nooks opposite , with the unsettled intention of springing out at Sixsmith — if he ever say him , which he never did . |
| 23 | For hours I strolled through the birch and Scots pinewoods with herds of roe deer only yards in front of me . |
| 24 | For hours I walked up and down in my flat . |
| 25 | Commissioner for Agriculture it became clear to him that the task ahead was not going to be easy . |
| 26 | Without waiting for Chuck he strode off in the direction taken by the herd , and halfway across the grassland he let out a roar and dropped to his knees . |
| 27 | The next time Jed drove through Westwood he looked for Failure , but he could n't find it . |
| 28 | The ISD programming team also did their bit by charging colleagues in ISD for calls they made to the Helpdesk , raising around £2OO . |
| 29 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 30 | The T'ang 's words were a harmless play on the name of the Longjing ch'a , but for Ben they seemed to hold a special meaning . |