Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next move towards national organisation for seamen also arose on the north east coast , though as a result of a very different impetus . |
| 2 | Holding Seawitch on course with one hand , he pushed the other through hair already rumpled by previous displays of frustration . |
| 3 | A claim for money generally had to be substantiated by evidence of careful planning , identification of areas of shortfall , prioritising and cost-effective exercises . |
| 4 | The dimples she kept for emergencies suddenly appeared in Felicity 's cheeks . |
| 5 | Protests about professionalization also came in the 1960s from the prominenti of Oxford English . |
| 6 | Support for Scott again came from the Northampton Architectural Society . |
| 7 | The measures proposed in the first SCSE resolution seemed designed to gain popular support , and , according to a report in Le Monde of Aug. 22 , food unavailable for months suddenly appeared in Moscow 's shops during the coup . |
| 8 | In July 1960 , literally weeks after Baxter officially arrived at Ibrox the military moved in . |
| 9 | This desperate cry for help eventually arrived at the parson 's house in Emminster . |
| 10 | Letters and phone-calls of support also came from every corner of Britain . |
| 11 | In case anyone should question these financial allocations , can we point out that they only move the film and crafts sectors towards the level of support long enjoyed in England and Wales . |
| 12 | The range of products previously tried on the current leg ulcer demonstrated not only the unsuitability of one product through every stage of healing , but also the frustration experienced by some nurses desperate to find the right product for a particular patient . |
| 13 | A number of authorities also resorted to creative accountancy — technical accounting adjustments which maximize financial benefits in the authority 's favour-as a means of ‘ spending above the rate-capping spending level ’ . |
| 14 | Fujimori 's change of heart reportedly came after a visit to Peru on May 16 by the Uruguayan Foreign Minister Héctor Gros Espiell , as an OAS emissary . |
| 15 | We can not assume that such areas were unsettled , however , since areas of woodland often belonged to other places which are better documented . |
| 16 | ‘ Do you know that in the mythology of Earth the concept of freedom only came into existence after male and female ate of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil . |
| 17 | When he did , he made a gurgling kind of noise then rose to his full height in the pew and bellowed like a bull-calf , ‘ NOREEN ! ’ |
| 18 | Unsurprisingly , the treatment of roads here had to be different . |
| 19 | Debt is seen as Pilkington 's main difficulty with estimates of £840m at the end of March now said to be standing at £950m and likely to hit the £1bn figure . |
| 20 | It did not matter that I had rejected my father 's ways , that I had become a marine and was as poor as a church mouse while McIllvanney had become a rich man ; the stench of privilege still clung to me and McIllvanney loved to discomfort me because of it . |
| 21 | The science of physics really came to birth during the nineteenth century , though the process of convergence of separate physical sciences had perhaps begun when Galileo united celestial and terrestrial dynamics . |
| 22 | And that of course also accounted for the fact that there was no book in Webbs ' window . |
| 23 | Den suffered terribly from stage fright and had some real moments of crisis which of course never showed from the front . |
| 24 | Curiously enough , the same MPs who opposed the building of barracks never objected to the press-gang nor to the occasional use of conscription to keep the army up to strength . |
| 25 | He felt that the market reached its lowest point in the first half of last year and that a number of signs now pointed to returning confidence : a low unsold ( bi ) rate of 13% ( by value ) so far this year as compared to 21% for this time last year , together with stronger bidding in sales this year . |
| 26 | But success breeds replication and good examples of provision soon spread to other centres . |
| 27 | Two Nationalist members of Parliament recently defected to Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi 's Inkatha Freedom Party . |
| 28 | A unitary system , the sovereignty of Parliament usually wielded by a one-party majority , Treasury control of national finance , the absence of a written constitution or a Bill of Rights which courts can use to challenge the government , and the idea that extra-parliamentary party organs are merely ‘ handmaidens ’ of the parliamentary party all bear witness to this centralization . |
| 29 | St Teresa of Avila also spoke of the obscure type of revelation , which both Julian and Muhammad described as ‘ spiritual visions ’ : |
| 30 | The great spate of English translations of Paracelsus also belonged to the 1650s , confirming that the peak of his influence in England connected with what is arguably the unsurpassed golden age of British science and medicine , coinciding with the formative years of such figures as Boyle , Sydenham , and Willis , all of whom were affected by paracelsian influences . |