Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we were officially the London helpline , we got calls from all over Britain and from all over the world . |
| 2 | Janos Kadar , who led Hungary from then till 1988 , offered some cultural and economic freedom in return for obedience to Moscow . |
| 3 | Sheriff Donald Booker-Millburn , who deferred sentence until yesterday for background reports , said a prison term was the most appropriate sentence . |
| 4 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 5 | But she loved him enough to understand his silence and found courage from somewhere for both of them . |
| 6 | In Manchester the demand for tickets was so great that they changed hands for upwards of eighty pounds . |
| 7 | The school , for disturbed children , drew pupils from all over the country , at fees of forty thousand pounds a year each . |
| 8 | One of the most reputed single-site vineyards of this area is ‘ Le Leon ’ , named after Pope Leo the Magnificent , who drew supplies from here in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | ‘ Cardiff ! ’ shouted Jimmy from somewhere behind him . |
| 10 | The Great Exhibition lasted from May until October and attracted visitors from all over the world to see the various items of produce exhibited , and a Mr. Thomas Cook enlarged his business by arranging trips to that Exhibition from a great many places . |
| 11 | It 's been a good year for holly berries , and the crop on sale today attracted buyers from all over Britain . |
| 12 | In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the fair — for cattle , sheep and hardware as well as horses — attracted people from all over the country . |
| 13 | The event attracted people from all over the UK . |
| 14 | After news of the drawing was reported recently in the Italian press he received tips from all over Europe about other missing Leonardos . |
| 15 | Founded in the thirteenth century , Salamanca was the equal of Paris , Bologna and Oxford , became internationally famous and attracted students from all over the world . |
| 16 | With their extensive libraries , Irish monasteries attracted students from all over the world . |
| 17 | It was her canonisation that brought the town to prominence and attracted pilgrims from all over Europe to her shrine . |
| 18 | The treasures of a man who spent his life helping other people discover valuables in their own attics attracted interest from all over the world . |
| 19 | It attracted followers from all over the world . |
| 20 | She begged pardon at once for — being so free as to presume I will be read but then , ma'am , you must blame yourself for encouraging in me that letter-writing soul . |
| 21 | WITH no obvious metamorphosis , the Diary spent part of yesterday among an organisation called Teesside Women at a ‘ meet the politicians ’ lunch . |
| 22 | Psychometric tests which attempt to measure students ' ability to use the library have been developed and made use of primarily in the USA . |
| 23 | Samir grabbed Graham from behind as Al-Makesh unholstered his Beretta . |
| 24 | I also watched MotD over here on saturday . |
| 25 | It seems certain that this took place at least before the divergence with chimpanzee , and since multiple KOX2-hybridising bands are also present in other apes and monkeys , the duplication event may have been prior to the branch points of most simian primates . |
| 26 | By good fortune , however , another visitor arrived ; it was Willis , who took charge at once of the two girls . |
| 27 | Railways and steamships brought delegates from all over the country to the chosen centre each year , and also brought foreign visitors , giving an international flavour to the occasion . |
| 28 | She also stored food in there like a hamster , and sometimes , when least expected , her head would snake back inside her covering and the crunch of crisps or the slurp of a boiled sweet could be heard . |
| 29 | Di Gesu took photographs until just before his death . |
| 30 | I got letters from all over the country , from young mothers of all ages and circumstances . |