Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 2 | Back at her flat , though , she made herself a cup of tea and was able to give her thoughts free rein — all of them centred on Naylor Massingham . |
| 3 | Badger gassing , the infallible and humane method of killing them recommended by Lord Zuckerman was stopped on the grounds that it was fallible and inhumane . |
| 4 | Take a drive in the country during the hedgehog season and you will see the remains of thousands of them splattered across the roads . |
| 5 | Corbett thought it was mere drunken bravado when one of them lunged across the table and uproar ensued as food , cups and flagons of wine and ale were sent sprawling . |
| 6 | For five months , the two of them lived with her mother in Brighton . |
| 7 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 8 | The four of them lived in one house with the father of the two men . |
| 9 | The huge majority of them lived in rented houses in North Oxford . |
| 10 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 11 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 12 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 13 | This figure declined slightly for older children , a growing proportion of whom lived with a natural parent and a step-parent . |
| 14 | They were most likely to be men , aged 20 to 24 , many of whom lived in Scotland . |
| 15 | The Malays were an urban community many of whom lived in Colombo and Hambantota . |
| 16 | Similarly , 4414 West Ham residents worked at Tate & Lyle 's sugar refineries , 4171 ( 94.5 per cent ) of whom lived in Canning Town or Plaistow , while of the 3880 employed at the LNER locomotive works , 3444 ( 88.8 per cent ) lived in Stratford or Forest Gate . |
| 17 | By devising an oral rehydration solution made from home ingredients , the problem of cost was ( partially at least ) solved , as was the problem of supplying pre-packaged Oral Rehydration Salts to a population 92% of whom lived in rural areas where transportation was generally very poor . |
| 18 | More to the point , at that age , Auntie tells me , I saw no distinction between the two Fathers , both of whom lived in the sky . |
| 19 | In a very real sense , of course , the biographies of the Muftis in the following chapters illustrate the development of the hierarchy , but it seems not without point to concentrate attention on this particular aspect by placing side by side the biographies of two scholars , one of whom lived in the period before the hierarchy had become developed to any very great degree — before , perhaps , it is even possible to speak of a hierarchy-he other in a period when the development was fairly well advanced , though not complete . |
| 20 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 21 | The report showed that there were between 27,000,000 and 35,000,000 blind people in the world , over 90 per cent of whom lived in the developing world , mostly in rural areas . |
| 22 | There were three of them seated in the wardroom , Talbot , Van Gelder and Grierson . |
| 23 | Matilda took the knife she had been eating with , and all four of them crept towards the dining-room door , the father keeping well behind the others . |
| 24 | The three of them rode to the bank of the river , dismounted , then slipped quickly through the underbrush . |
| 25 | ‘ There are no provisions for new ideas , so I keep them posted in my office until I need them , ’ he said . |
| 26 | An average ant colony might use around 12 different types of signal , most of them conveyed by means of chemical ‘ pheromones ’ secreted on to the ground by various glands and then sniffed in the air by other ants . |
| 27 | Although nothing became of this beyond an agreement that there were widely different views on the matter , that same year the Government of Australia proposed that the so called cull grenade should be banned . |
| 28 | Consider , for example , the case of two owners of agricultural land on the periphery of a town , both of whom applied for planning permission to develop for housing purposes — the first being given permission and the second refused on the ground that the site in question was to form part of a green belt . |
| 29 | Is the Minister aware that there are now thousands of people waiting for home improvement grants , some of whom applied before 1984 ? |
| 30 | Everyone argued about the jury . |