Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I said , Why do n't you just say , ‘ I asked about those records you ordered ? ’ |
| 32 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 33 | It was also probably a link that led through several species of hominids , some of which died out , to man . |
| 34 | He then wired through each hole a Christmas tree light bulb connected to a battery and a bell-push button . |
| 35 | So I got aboard this cab , and the guy said , Buddy where do you want to go to ? |
| 36 | For the media clamouring for every sensational scrap of information about Kylie — good or bad — the troubles she endured during this period were mass circulation manna from heaven . |
| 37 | It would n't be an exaggeration to say I lived for that owl during that very intense period of training . |
| 38 | ‘ They lived for each other , they leaned on each other , they helped each other , they worked for each other . |
| 39 | She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium . |
| 40 | Patients lived for many years , and some died from causes unrelated to their blood pressure . |
| 41 | For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay . |
| 42 | I lived for many years in the north of England . |
| 43 | Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons . |
| 44 | He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 . |
| 45 | Never married , Lottie Dod lived for many years in London before moving to Milford-on-Sea . |
| 46 | It was almost a model village , with its Quality Street , where a future head of the Secret Service lived for many years . |
| 47 | Bottcher Strawalde is an artist who lived for several decades in the shadow of the Berlin Wall ( the film was discovered or rediscovered by Parisians a month ago at the Jeu de Paume ) . |
| 48 | In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions . |
| 49 | Some lived for several days in this pitiful condition , their feet gnawed by dogs , until they died in agony . |
| 50 | Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months . |
| 51 | And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years . |
| 52 | He was a brilliant scholar , and lived for some time at ‘ Titeup Hall , ’ Dalton . |
| 53 | In addition to having worked in Germany and the USSR , and lived for some time before the war in France , I was brought up for the first five years of my life in India in a native state where I was the only white child . |
| 54 | But the fact remains that Panaetius lived for some time in Rome , as the Index Stoicorum Herculanensis , an excellent source , states ( 73 ) ; and there seems to be no reason to doubt the statement of Cicero in Pro Murena that he was the guest of Scipio ( 31.56 ) . |
| 55 | The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery . |
| 56 | The story of Hereward was later popularised by the novelist Charles Kingsley ( 1819–1875 ) , who lived for some years at Barnack Rectory , about four miles to the south-east of Stamford . |
| 57 | And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye . |
| 58 | yes that was at quarter past eight Saturday morning and at ten to eight my aunty came at night and went fucking mad she said I want a dressing and I want it now , twelve hours ago I asked for that dressing and were n't done then came |
| 59 | Commitment to a performance target is not assured because a boss asked for that commitment . |
| 60 | He asked for that camera for his birthday this year . ’ |