Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To Nigel 's disappointment , nothing ever came of these pick-ups . |
| 32 | I half disapproved of these costumes , they made me feel uncomfortable , but at the same time I admired and envied her , she was so original and unconcerned . |
| 33 | A merciful amnesia usually came with these comas and who could deny it was a blessing ? |
| 34 | Many traders , dockers and railwaymen came into these towns which grew rapidly at this time . |
| 35 | While I suffered from these dreams on my slab of rock , something woke me . |
| 36 | Another General Election in 1970 intervened before these proposals could be implemented . |
| 37 | Ferrari profited from these ground-effects catastrophes with a relatively conventional car , the 312T4 that gave Jody Scheckter the 1979 world championship . |
| 38 | Most of the stone for Victoria Station , Manchester , for example , came from these stone-mines above Hawes . |
| 39 | Much of Sir Charles Irving 's personal vote came from these areas , where many know of his extraordinary personal kindness . |
| 40 | Many of the graphite pits were in the Western and Southern Provinces , and a large proportion of miners who worked in other districts came from these areas . |
| 41 | Not much profit came from these transactions but friends were made and contacts kept up that were to prove useful in the peace . |
| 42 | The beginning of the poem came from these images but they in turn roused other images from his past reading . |
| 43 | His devotion to Essex cricket came from these roots , as he followed West Ham United Football Club and played cricket with Alf for the East Ham Corinthians . |
| 44 | His devotion to Essex cricket came from these roots , as he followed West Ham United Football Club and played cricket with Alf for the East Ham Corinthians . |
| 45 | Formerly the largest group of people to be housed by local authorities ( 64 per cent in 1975 ) came from these lists ; some of these people were council tenants hoping to move to better property . |
| 46 | When she turned from painting to writing , she added to these gifts and to this training , two principles which might well be carved above the entrance door of every School of Journalism . |
| 47 | Henry I shored up his doubtful claim by marrying a princess of the English royal line ; what Stephen has lost in warfare , Henry II recaptured owing to a series of successful marriages — those of his parents , which united a claim to all the territory of Henry I with Anjou , and his own , which added to these Aquitaine , that is to say , some title to most of southern France . |
| 48 | On the basis of the answers they received to these questions Goldthorpe and his colleagues concluded that monotony is a definite source of job dissatisfaction . |
| 49 | It was interesting to compare the performance of my tourer bike and the mountain bikes we hired on these roads . |
| 50 | Flax mills and handweavers — also useful generally because they helped at the harvest and other farm-intensive moments — came to these villages which were advertised as having little plots of land , enough to sustain a cow , and enough peat to keep a family fireplace burning , and enough life in general to support those married , or intending to marry . |
| 51 | It has no emotional effect upon the reader because it does n't show how the poet came to these conclusions . |
| 52 | When the Saxons came to these isles , a number of Britons fled across the Channel to Northern France in search of a more peaceful life — thus giving the region where they settled the name of Brittany . |
| 53 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 54 | So I came across these things you see when we were first married because I used to write out all Hector 's bills for him , by hand before we had a typewriter |
| 55 | Interestingly , in normal colonic lamina propria most cells ( 87% ) recognised by these reagents seem to be positive for all three markers and can apparently function both as phagocytes and antigen presenting cells . |
| 56 | But the discussion on Polybius provoked by these pamphlets went on at intervals at least until 1783 . |
| 57 | The majority of the other group of mainstream Protestants , so frequently castigated by these Puritans , held fast to an alternative religious outlook which , if perhaps more relaxed , was often no less valid or deeply felt . |
| 58 | He never saw the rope that would hang him for the noose was concealed in the hem of the white hood that the hangman drew over his head with the usual gentle suggestion that AIbert Pierrepoint reserved for these occasions . |
| 59 | Today 's cowboy ( ’ A sort of John Wayne PhD ’ ) tuned into these gadgets , Bentine vouchsafed , to identify animals and monitor their health and weight . |
| 60 | An Invective against France , probably written around 1347 , opened with these words : As Dr Barnie points out , such lampoons show how ancient and persistent are national stereotypes : the English accused the French of sexual promiscuity , while the French assiduously propagated the idea that the English were violent and gluttonous drunkards , and that they all had tails . |