Example sentences of "of [noun] they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Schools were asked to indicate the kind of support they requested from the various agencies . |
| 2 | Up and down and over and over , again and again and I 'd marvel at the bulk of prayer they made in any one day . |
| 3 | the most salient and persistent attitude to work and families was the overriding sense of responsibility they felt to parents , brothers and children . |
| 4 | In the nineteenth century , however , those who conducted the research did not really believe that their subjects would tell them the truth reliably if they asked them for information directly , and so they drew inferences about people 's ideas , religious beliefs , political commitments and so on from the type of literature they had on their shelf or the pictures they had on their walls . |
| 5 | Yeah , but of course they went to the right |
| 6 | They also had to survive the effect of a highly corrosive atmosphere at red heat and a hundred times the atmospheric pressure on Earth , and of course they had to be transparent to infrared radiation . |
| 7 | Of course they died from time to time , so there was a light at the end of the tunnel . |
| 8 | There was little room for lesbians to be out in the first half of this century , unless of course they moved in the right literary or aristocratic circles . |
| 9 | The first form talked about it more than any one else , of course they squealed with laughter when they saw the poor Mary Lou Manselle and Gwendoline , all falling victims to the same spider , jolly clever spider said Irene , it means the only three people in the form that it that would be scared of it , I take my hat off to that spider , ca n't think why it chose my desk said Mary Lou , no , that was a shame said Gwendoline , poor Mary Lou it must of been an awful shock for you when you saw it , I wonder who put it there ? |
| 10 | Ah lovely I saw saw them live a couple of times they appeared on T V shows as well . |
| 11 | After a moment of hesitation they walked towards Timothy Gedge . |
| 12 | He claimed players applying for reinstatement should not be prejudiced by the amount of money they received from rugby league . |
| 13 | However , the labour movement was divided as to the extent and type of provision they desired from the state . |
| 14 | National associations , like the British Boxing Board of Control , were fed up with the mobsters — so fed up that they were willing to pay an affiliation fee to one or both of these new bodies to gain the right to submit the names of boxers they licensed for title fights sanctioned by the WBA and the WBC . |
| 15 | What were these Acts of Parliament they spoke of , to do with factories and labour ? |
| 16 | I hope that the BBC will make more effort in the future to bring more coverage of major tennis events , for example Grand Slams like the French Open , on the scale of coverage they had for Wimbledon because I am sure that there are many people who are in the same situation as me and would like more tennis on TV . |
| 17 | Moreover , by providing a sustained source of recruits they brought into being the radical subculture which revolved around discussion circles , experimental communes , and avant-garde journals . |
| 18 | After he had made a pot of tea they sat near the range and surveyed each other . |
| 19 | The high quality of the Gulf pearls and the fact that the fisheries were controlled by Arabs ensured that from the market at Bandar e Lengeh on the Iranian coast not far west of the Gulf of Hormuz they entered into the trade network of the Indian Ocean and adjacent areas . |
| 20 | When the topographical artists displayed their work in the south of England they served as most effective tourist publicity . |
| 21 | When the ironing was being done , if he came in , holding out a shirt or a collar for special attention before he put it on , he caught , sometimes , among the warm bread-like goodness of pressed linen and cotton , fragrant from soap and water , the stab of pungent humanity , a momentary trace as the heavy iron stamped the armpit of one of his daughters ' blouses , the ferrous , lively whiff of blood lingering around the soft white squares of cotton they wore during their time of the month . |
| 22 | Michael said it were there at erm five to twelve , when he erm quarter past twelve when he come out of work they got in it . |
| 23 | When they reached the safety of the pile of sand they sat on top of it and watched their brothers . |
| 24 | Less than twenty miles out of Aberdeen they ran into a blizzard . |
| 25 | With lean production , they say , Japanese manufacturers more of less doubled the number of models they offered between 1982 and the '90s , at the same time replacing them every four years . |
| 26 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 27 | They took along a box of wine they bought between them , and were drinking the red vin de table from plastic half-pint glasses . |
| 28 | Detailed files were kept on every student which could help determine what sort of assignment they received upon graduation . |
| 29 | This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 . |
| 30 | Thirty-six of the forty women said ‘ yes ’ to the question ‘ Do you find you can think about other things while you 're working ? ’ , and most of the women then went on to offer examples of topics they thought about . |