Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] and [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people in shops sent their regards to her aunt through Melanie and asked how she was keeping , as they had asked after Melanie 's mother and also after Mrs Rundle when Melanie had gone shopping in the village . |
| 2 | They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits . |
| 3 | Fashioned from smoky green glass , tightly corked and wired , they would be packed with straw for protection and carried on wooden poles slotted through their individual baskets of woven metal . |
| 4 | The survivors returned to Alexandria to refit as cavalry and received replacements from the County . |
| 5 | In 1885 Brunner became Liberal MP for Northwich and held the seat , with one short break , until he resigned in 1909 . |
| 6 | She fumbled for change and pressed the button for black coffee . |
| 7 | The British electorate — we have rolled forward to Friday — has opted for change and made a job of it , sweeping the Natural Law Party into power . |
| 8 | Where some have attempted to ignore international structural changes , others , perhaps grudgingly , have accepted the need for change and grasped the nettle of internal adjustment . |
| 9 | Birches Green Infant School in Birmingham approached the undertaker and betting office for support and received a bottle of whisky and some new ties for their efforts . |
| 10 | He let go of the door he was clutching for support and tested the muscles in his legs . |
| 11 | She looked at Travis for support and found him grim-faced . |
| 12 | Next morning she went and reported him to the foreman , who sent for Jim and asked ‘ What 's this woman on about ? ’ . |
| 13 | I held the staircase door open for Lisabeth and said : ‘ You first . ’ |
| 14 | We are inundated with rabbits , so we fenced off a rabbit-proof area for vegetables and netted the top — the pigeons , caterpillars and slugs ate the lot . |
| 15 | Simon Brown hit 59 for Rainhill , while Peter Hodgson scored 45 for Ainsdale and took 4–53 . |
| 16 | In some quarters it was suggested that the best solution would be to set up a government of ‘ national trustees ’ , headed by McKenna , who had deserted politics for banking and had not sat in ; Parliament since 1918 . |
| 17 | Ironic compliments were paid to Pierre , Donna and Raoul for the potency and effect of their acting and Raoul played for sympathy and looked nobly forgiving , holding a handkerchief to his nose and peering at it for blood , of which there seemed to be not much . |
| 18 | The survey looked at which cities cater for cyclists and covered everything from parking facilities to potholes . |
| 19 | much fuller use can be made … of the machinery for joint consultation and negotiation between employers and employed … . |
| 20 | When they were out of sight , Mungo touched the golden glass ball for luck and went down to the yard . |
| 21 | I ought to add , perhaps , that gay men do not regard this film with nothing but sad , solemn recognition — the characteristically gay male urge to mock and undercut what one genuinely and deeply feels , what Dyer brilliantly calls ‘ the knife edge between camp and hurt ’ , can be evidenced by pointing out that one of London 's most crowded and cruisy gay bars is called ‘ Brief Encounter ’ , though one is , alas , unlikely to meet anyone resembling Trevor Howard therein . |
| 22 | Athelstan silently prayed for patience and sat down on the stool opposite Sir John . |
| 23 | Mr Gordon accused GFP of being ‘ fundamentalists ’ about roads and said : ‘ It is a myth that other cities are spending nothing on roads . |
| 24 | Apparently , the girl was an attractive woman and she no doubt knew how to present herself as temptingly as possible , They exchanged what Miller describes as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ about money and walked on together up the by now rapidly dusking street . |
| 25 | The conference was held at Elderslie during March and included factory tours , during which the latest manufacturing development at both Douglas Reyburn in Kilmarnock and at Glenpatrick Works were on view . |
| 26 | He established collotype printing for illustrations and created the nucleus of a bindery . |
| 27 | Apparently , an old oak chest had been part of the family 's possessions for generations and bore an inscription inside the lid which said in effect , ‘ Whoever removes this chest from Appleby Hall , ill luck will befall them . ’ |
| 28 | In these photographs , one feels there is some real communion between photographer and photographed . |
| 29 | EIGHTY years ago tomorrow , on the night of 14/15 April 1912 , the ‘ unsinkable ’ passenger liner Titanic , steaming at high speed on her maiden transatlantic voyage , ran headlong into an iceberg off Newfoundland and plunged to the bottom of the ocean , taking more than 1,500 souls with her . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State accepted the TGAT report as a basis for progress and commissioned further reports from the Group including one on the problems of practical implementation which gave a glimpse of the elaborate machinery that would be necessary . |