Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [conj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The besieger had become the besieged , and Matilda had only escaped because of the gallant rearguard action of her half-brother , Robert , Earl of Gloucester , as they fought their way out of their castle before they were starved out . |
| 2 | But she knew that Lizzy appreciated her turning up , and that her reputation as a DI had not suffered because of her being a mother . |
| 3 | Thus in Weiner v. Gill ( 1906 C.A. ) although jewellery sold on approval was subsequently re-sold by the buyer , the court held that property had not passed because of an express statement in the original contract that property was not to pass until the seller was paid . |
| 4 | Ivan Masek , chairman of the Screening Commission of the Czech National Council , emphasised on Jan. 3 that Richter had not resigned because of collaboration with the former secret police ( StB ) . |
| 5 | Toby had partly under-performed because of nerves and lack of examination technique . |
| 6 | Miss Malabedeely had looked embarrassed , discovered on her knees like that , but it had n't mattered because of her niceness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Eleven of 36 male CLO patients had never smoked and of those who had smoked the median pack years accumulated was 15 ( mean 20.3 , range 5–60 pack years ) . |
| 9 | She had been relieved when he first appeared in it ; it was bright blue striped with red , expensive , obviously new , a reassuring sign that the mother she had never met and of whom he never spoke , tried to take good care of him . |