Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far we 've been concentrating on Meryl 's reasons for hanging round on the gallery in the middle of the night ; all well and good , but what was Gladys doing there ? ’ |
| 2 | Doubtless he had his own reasons for stopping off at the island — my own were to attend a workshop aimed at formulating a scientific plan for the development of the archipelago over the next two decades . |
| 3 | South Korea 's foreign ministry said : ‘ The North 's professed reasons for pulling out of the NPT convince no one . |
| 4 | There may even be some good reasons for keeping out of this no-man's-land . |
| 5 | For once her interest was not centred on the Grand Prix , but on her father , and his reasons for coming out to Spain to find her . |
| 6 | From 84 patients ( 37 suffering from ulcerative colitis and 47 from Crohn 's disease ) sera were collected at different timepoints for follow up of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody reactivity in relation to clinical parameters . |
| 7 | In the two months since the right 's crushing victory at the polls , Mr Mitterrand has only twice expressed ‘ reservations ’ about the government 's plans ( on its proposals for tightening up on law and order , and on its latest privatisation ideas ) . |
| 8 | In general , taxes remained largely unchanged , although the budget revived proposals for phasing in by 1993 a sliding-scale reduction in capital gains tax on long-term investment , according to the period for which the investment had been made . |
| 9 | The number of frauds has led to calls for tightening up of audits of investment businesses , and particularly a reduction in the number of many thousands of auditors who examine investment firms so that the ones left can develop greater expertise . |
| 10 | One Olympic athlete broke a world record only an hour after intercourse and a British athlete ran a four-minute mile just ninety minutes after getting down to it . |
| 11 | Kids ' stuff : Kevin Thomas , Hearts ' 17-year-old debutant , acclaims his goal , scored minutes after coming on at Tynecastle on Saturday . |
| 12 | Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition |
| 13 | Kidsgrove Athletic 2 Skelmersdale United 2 : Luckless Skem were denied a deserved victory in the last two minutes after coming back from behind . |
| 14 | Once , 24 hours after getting back to the office , I fell ill — with symptoms very like scrub typhus , a tick-borne disease — felt rotten , lost two and a half stone in the next fortnight , could n't eat , had hallucinations . |
| 15 | There are lots of mountains I still want to climb , ’ Ms Stephens said , just hours after arriving back in Britain . |
| 16 | She was found dead hours after walking out of the unit in a suicidal state after her family had been told it was secure . |
| 17 | He began to have slight doubts about going back with Eleanor . |
| 18 | IN A culture and a century that have doubts about matching up to Prince Hamlet , feeling fitted at best to the role of attendant lord , it 's astonishing that Shakespeare 's Henry V should become , except at a time of national emergency , a resonant figure of any sort . |
| 19 | it does n't sound as if people had much inhibitions about coming up to you and asking you . |
| 20 | There are halls for banqueting up to 3,000 , for small exhibitions , industrial theatre and simultaneous translation . |
| 21 | There are flashing units for flashing up to abutments or , if desired , these can be reversed to run into gutters . |
| 22 | ‘ Thanks for sticking up for me , ’ he snapped at last , an unmistakable sneer in his tone . |
| 23 | Okay Ron there are , thanks for coming over for a start , there are you 've got all the er the brochure and the er obviously the application form . |
| 24 | Steel sand channels for getting out of soft ground , water containers , jerrycans , spare drums of Vickers ammunition , camouflage nets and the crew 's personal kit and weapons had to be stowed . |
| 25 | But Horton , determined to make amends for missing out by such a narrow margin last year , moved to the front with an excellent 68 but with Coles so close to him , nothing can be taken for granted over the final two rounds . |
| 26 | A yachtsman has been reunited with his wife — five months after setting off on a voyage which should have lasted just four weeks . |
| 27 | Nine months after splitting up with Crawford , Gabrielle began a relationship with Chelsea footballer Tommy Baldwin , who had also parted from his wife . |
| 28 | After all the criticism of the Tory campaign it was a remarkable achievement for Mr Major 16 months after taking over from Mrs Thatcher when the Tories were 20 points behind in the polls following the poll tax debacle . |
| 29 | The French goal ace had feared being out of the game for two months after hobbling out of the 3-0 first leg defeat with a damaged hamstring . |
| 30 | Just 22 months after walking out on the Merseyside club , the 41-year-old Scot received a warm reception from the Kop as he took his place on the Blackburn Rovers bench . |