Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over and over the events of the day I go , vainly searching for where I went wrong … |
| 2 | Patsy turned to them , unmarked except for where he had been stained by his brother 's blood . |
| 3 | He assumed , however , that rather than evolving over the ages to suit their environment , they had been ‘ ready-made ’ by God to the perfect design needed for where He placed them . |
| 4 | Of course , for about two years you know after and everybody went to something or other . |
| 5 | So I says , oh I says , saying what they were and she said , oh , she said , and I 've got some mugs Auntie Elsie bought you and a bit after and she said , she said , there 's them four mugs for Angela . |
| 6 | And he knew that Marama , because of her title , would always be looked after if she stayed on Koraloona , so it would be wrong of him to be selfish and expect her to live in semi-starvation on a strange island . |
| 7 | Well then Fred said she is after but you got another girl . |
| 8 | The comedian Spike Milligan held forth about God , Diana gave a priceless diamond and pearl necklace to a friend to look after while she danced ; while the Queen was observed looking through the programme and saying in bemused tones : ‘ It says here they have live music ’ , as though it had just been invented . |
| 9 | But with a brother and sister whom she must look after for they had nothing left but her . |
| 10 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |
| 11 | I 'm not saying we all had it together but you say you can er say that about four of 'em would then as that as that they got rid of it the other the others 'd get it you know eventually and th we 'd all have it in the end . |
| 12 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 13 | Melanie knew what she was waiting for although she had not told her . |
| 14 | But for that I got described as ‘ professionally nice ’ . ’ |
| 15 | generally speaking the nation had good ears , they knew what was what and they listened quite well , hear you deaf ones he 's describing them and look forth to see you blind once verse twenty it was a case of seeing many things , but you did not cheat watching and Daniel , verse twenty five , look it says there a little phrase near , half way through that he took no note , the nation took no note of what was happening at that time , but we know what happened to them , many of them , thousands , a million of them lost their lives did n't they ? |
| 16 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 17 | This is particularly noticeable in Between ; indeed she herself says ‘ it 's really with Between that I discovered what I could do with language ’ ( 1989e:83 ) . |
| 18 | They allied themselves with Western influenced opponents of the Qajar and were influential in the revolution of 1906 which further weaken the authority of the Shah by creating a constitutional monarchs , similar to that of Belgium-and which remained nominally in force until 1979 . |
| 19 | He was n't just pontificating , he was n't just starting out things he thought about , he and and , ideas that had come into his head , he spoke as one who had authority and because of that they heard him . |
| 20 | Jesus , Saint Peter and James and John had just been on the mountain top at the site of the transfiguration , a high point in the gospel story , and right on the heels of that they descended into the valley below and there was a crowd with Jesus ' others disciples . |
| 21 | Perhaps , perhaps , perhaps it was because of that we did n't have it , and the treasurer and the secretary are officially erm , and we do have constitution do n't we now of course , so we can look at the constitution and see what it says |
| 22 | And out of that we paid half a crown ou in every guinea to the association because they got the jobs for us . |
| 23 | Er no we do n't not really because at this stage now as you said there 's so many good standards out there you we would every year we would start off with about a hundred titles , work our way down to maybe fifty down to thirty and we 'd end up recording about in fact this year we recorded thirty six songs and out of that we picked twenty two for the |
| 24 | And er she just sort of that it happened so quickly . |
| 25 | So you 'd say that as a b er as a result of that it did it did er so it did When you say it served its purpose , it did improve the image ? |
| 26 | Which is the the one that you 're sort of that you came across first of all the trig functions ? |
| 27 | ‘ All I could do was lie on the bed ’ , she says , ‘ it made me feel very ill and because of that I felt slightly depressed . |
| 28 | Out of that I had to find , threepence a day erm bus fare . |
| 29 | When I read the first six words of that I thought , good Lord , we 're going to get a bit of policy here and but no , no , none of it . |
| 30 | You know when I when I first thought of that I thought you know I 'd let us keep it . |