Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [pers pn] [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For them he edited and contributed to a series of books entitled Essays in Order . |
| 2 | Finding a junior nurse to assist , between them they cleaned and disinfected the arm , and applied a tight tourniquet above the wound . |
| 3 | After what we saw and felt last night , we can not be surprised that Sir Charles died of fright . |
| 4 | Accordingly , the insiders were under an obligation , inter alia , to disclose material matters about which they knew or had reason to believe the relevant shareholders had insufficient knowledge . |
| 5 | Baldwin 's modesty , about which he wrote and spoke frequently , was not excessive . |
| 6 | Thus in Ibrams ( 1982 ) there had been considerable ill-treatment and violence by the deceased towards D and his girlfriend , and this led them eventually to plan and carry out a night-time raid on the deceased 's flat , during which they attacked and killed him . |
| 7 | Through the long ride , through the noise and confusion when they reached their destination , through the hurried ceremony that followed almost immediately , during which she moved and spoke when so directed like one in a trance . |
| 8 | The Department 's courses accordingly aim to give an understanding of what German writers and thinkers have had to say in the past of the age and the society within which and for which they wrote and make students familiar with contemporary life and literature , art and film in the German-speaking countries . |
| 9 | This was really no more than a collage of bits and pieces of archive film , intercut with brief interviews , for which I wrote and narrated a restrained but admiring commentary . |
| 10 | Jamie Blandford admitted things were different for him than for his predecessors , most of whom he described as living in blissful ignorance of the world . |
| 11 | There were a great many people milling around , the cream of Spaxton society , indeed , many of whom she knew or recognised . |
| 12 | ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , written in 1927 , contains not only material quoted in Eliot 's 1926 survey , ‘ Lancelot Andrewes ’ , and recollections from Eliot 's own life ( some of which he catalogued when reminiscing in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ) . |
| 13 | She gained some 25lb ( 11kg ) in weight during pregnancy , half of which she lost whilst breast-feeding for six months . |
| 14 | This was a side of him she admired and liked , and as long as they could talk like this she was happy and open to chat , even to tease . |
| 15 | But once a job becomes a series of chances with restrictions built in , all of what we struggled for becomes a thing of the past . |
| 16 | Nothing at all of what we did or said ; that is , until the morning of my departure . |
| 17 | The evidence of actual bystanders of what they saw and felt is some evidence of what the hypothetical bystander would have been likely to feel . |
| 18 | " Then swear to me now , swear that you will never speak of what you saw or heard . |
| 19 | Just made a note of what I said and said thanks very much . |
| 20 | So I just kept on my way , letting then all come along for the ride , while I hunted for confirmation of what I suspected and feared about Gharr . |
| 21 | Like them she knew and feared the power of marriage and heterosexual passion to burn women up and out ( her image ) . |
| 22 | Against which it raged and charred |
| 23 | I can not express to you the enchanted effect produced by this Arabian scene of colour as the wind blew aside the great waterfall behind which we stood and hid . |
| 24 | Behind everything she loathed and despised . |
| 25 | She put everything into it , and Ivy simply lopped off everything she said and left it lying there , dead . |
| 26 | As always , he seemed to be apologizing for everything he said or did . |
| 27 | ‘ And when she noticed I had two other children with me she laughed and said she knew what a handful they could be . ’ |
| 28 | In 1868 he became chief chemist in a sugar refinery at the Victoria docks , owned by James Duncan , with whom he devised and patented several technical improvements . |
| 29 | So we are obliged to interpret calls as meaning ‘ phones ’ and her as referring to ‘ the beautiful girl with long black hair with whom he danced and had a good time ’ . |
| 30 | A great magnificent image that I did n't want to use as material for a silly magazine article , but which I just could n't resist sharing with everyone I knew and did n't know . |