Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curious thing is that though the facts are the same as they were in the Fifties and the risks are higher , the level of anxiety about them has markedly fallen . |
| 2 | Franklin had once written a letter to Sir Ralph which the Member thought highly offensive and relations between them had since remained frigid . |
| 3 | I do n't deserve that forgiveness , but the God who loves me who has actually died on the cross for me has actually taken all of that away and more than that has made me new , has actually raised me as a new life with him . |
| 4 | But you got into the Soviet Union and it 's difficult at first for me to get emotionally connected to the story . |
| 5 | It was an otter such as I had never seen before , with this all-over fawn coat . |
| 6 | In some elusive way , here before me was the representative of something , some enormous sphere of sensations and transcendent values such as I had only read about , something my Maker had withheld from me which I desperately needed . |
| 7 | In my mind 's beady eye it was white with just a soupçon ( had I known the word soupçon ) of scarlet such as I 'd once seen June Allyson sport in a skating sequence in some Saturday morning picture . |
| 8 | An analogy such as I have just drawn in this three act drama of salvation can be dangerously misleading . |
| 9 | ‘ If you found someone such as I have just described it would let you off the hook . ’ |
| 10 | After the reception , we all went in to the ballroom for a five-course Scottish dinner such as I have not seen for years ! |
| 11 | There was a fluency and an edification and upbuilding such as I have seldom seen . |
| 12 | A feeling , wrote Harsnet , such as I have never experienced before , not so much of wishing I had never been born , as never been born as me . |
| 13 | At that moment , and perhaps for an hour afterwards , I was on Cloud Nine — in a state of happiness , contentment , euphoria , joy and utter peace such as I have never experienced before or since : everything is all right , an inner voice said , and everything from now on will always be all right ; how wonderful to know that life can be like this . |
| 14 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 15 | No I do n't a flat top what you on about I have n't got |
| 16 | That he might die , he did not much care , not , as he lay , and without protest , after what had already happened . |
| 17 | He asked to switch her mind to something else , and because it was essential to leave the autobahn after what had just happened . |
| 18 | Not after what has just happened between us . ’ |
| 19 | As regards the salaries of the U S A we 've read and seen about so many companies that pay sky-high for v various salaries and other schemes , we do n't want that in this country but we do want a degree of evenness and I would repeat as somebody has already said , that your salary has gone up fifty six percent which is very , very high . |
| 20 | Couples noisy with their love ( for nobody has ever loved before — not properly — have they ? ) may irritate , but ca n't be mocked . |
| 21 | Chile and Argentina were both offered barter deals , involving the exchange of Chilean nitrates ( demand for which had recently collapsed because of German development of synthetic substitutes ) and Argentine agricultural products for Soviet crude oil , along with assistance in the setting up of their own national refineries . |
| 22 | The big horses shouldered passers-by aside , for which Murtach courteously apologised , and the wounded ‘ Wares , bloodstained and tired , drew stares from everywhere . |
| 23 | There is in my view a close analogy to the right to recover money paid under a contract the consideration for which has wholly failed . |
| 24 | The implementation programme for which has now begun . |
| 25 | This failed to meet the demand for the forcible removal of the barricades , as advanced by the 7,000 white residents of the Chateauguay suburb adjacent to the Mercier bridge ( some of whom had regularly assembled during the siege to burn Mohawk effigies , and had participated in attacks on Indians fleeing the adjoining Kahnawake reservation ) . |
| 26 | The 200-strong rebel army which had in December 1989 infiltrated from neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire was now thought to number some 5,000 men and boys , a small proportion of whom had reportedly received training in Libya and Burkina . |
| 27 | This meant actually producing and maintaining a series of questions directed at the CEGB 's expert witnesses , most of whom had clearly spent many hours going through every conceivable pitfall . |
| 28 | HAVING had a summer of fair-weather golf , competitors in the British Women 's Stroke-Play Championship at Southerness , many of whom had not had to don a sweater in months , were faced with the foulest of conditions over the first two days . |
| 29 | There were 229 new referrals from general practice , most of whom had previously received one or more courses of antibiotic treatment ; 155 existing patients who showed little or no clinical improvement after at least three months ' antibiotic treatment ; and 84 patients sampled for other reasons ( mainly anxiety and screening after treatment with isotretinoin ) . |
| 30 | At national level , Adamu M. Fika and Stephen B Agodo , both of whom had previously held senior posts in the Cabinet office , were named as the administrative secretaries ; a further 44 secretaries were appointed at state level . |