Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you rub backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , and I ground like this for several hours every night , after I came home , for three months . |
| 2 | It has been suggested that Chaucer had come across and drew upon all of these sources for his Shipman 's Tale . |
| 3 | Forms one of the postgraduate degree streams in Ecology and Resource Management described in general on this page . |
| 4 | oh I trained in all of these things yes |
| 5 | In the event , however , the project occurred in neither of these areas : not in Barnet because the psychogeriatric service was still in the process of development ; nor in Southwark because , although there was an enormous amount of goodwill and enthusiasm for the project , the social services unions ( particularly the joint Home Helps Shop Stewards Committee ) decided that they could not endorse cooperation with the project , the main reason being that they felt — mistakenly in our view — that a project which employed its own carers might be a threat to the employment of local authority home helps , and that ‘ to endorse such a service is not helping the elderly in the long term , it is only carrying out this Government 's stratagem in closing Homes and hospitals ’ . |
| 6 | This not only entitled the State which manufactured and certified the aircraft type to participate formally in an investigation by means of an officially accredited representative , and so make their very considerable resources and knowledge available to the investigators , but it also ensured that when an accident occurred in one of those States which did not possess a well developed aviation industry , all the necessary expertise would be forthcoming and available to the investigation . |
| 7 | Minton also tried in some of these designs to do too much . |
| 8 | Erm do you think the fact that you did n't have a job , er contributed to that in any way ? |
| 9 | This is precisely what the student referred to earlier in this paper identified while working in residential care . |
| 10 | ‘ Nothing above the belly or below the knee tonight ! ’ he exclaimed on one of these evenings , savouring the rowdy songs and bawdy rhymes which resulted . |
| 11 | The King 's Bench Prison was a sad refuge as a reward for nineteen years of intense devotion to painting and having his works received with enthusiasm in England and Scotland , and visited by thousands in both countries . |
| 12 | ‘ You were limping as you came across Ana 's room and I would think you probably came off worst in this adventure . ’ |
| 13 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
| 14 | Nothing came of any of these suggestions . |
| 15 | We identified with all of these women , because none of them had anything to do with Being Beautiful . |
| 16 | While she scored above eight on several factors , the judge was particularly concerned with her score of around six-years-old on the ability to answer questions . |
| 17 | Not that Henry believed in any of that rubbish about possession or reliving history or the power of the myth . |
| 18 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
| 19 | The long black flying car came in low for another run along An Alleyway called Death . |
| 20 | He received from one of those organisations , the Board of Guardians , food , clothing , a little money to tide him over the worst first weeks , and the address of a family who would provide a room and warmth . |
| 21 | Mahmoud came to one of these alleyways and hesitated . |
| 22 | Next time he came on one of these recces he would bring a bag for these trophies , but the chinagraph pencil had worked well in noting on his slate the depths of water and the position of that false beach . |
| 23 | Only one investigation took into account the patient 's alcohol history ; interestingly this showed a shorter duration of intake in cirrhotic patients with HLA-B8/DR3 compated with those without this haplotype . |
| 24 | I removed as much as I could with my fingers , turned off the lights , added more plants and threw in one of those Nitrasafe bags . |
| 25 | Border , who scored 20 not out at No. 8 , declared at 367 for 6 : although India 's target was 441 , memories of Adelaide suggested an exciting final day , especially after Sidhu ( 24 ) and Srikkanth ( 26 ) knocked off 55 of those runs by stumps . |
| 26 | I bet if you walked into any of those apartment houses or office blocks , you 'd find zero . |
| 27 | Interestingly , a later internal annual review of Birmingham 's Partnership concurred with some of these findings and also identified other positive outcomes ( Birmingham City Council , 1987a ) . |
| 28 | Oleg Gordievsky , who defected in 15 after several years as an in-place MI6 agent , was head of the KGB mission in London and as such enjoyed a very privileged lifestyle both abroad and in Russia . |
| 29 | Modernity began in earnest with this industrialism — like the starting up of a great steam-driven machine , straining and clanking at the mechanical bit and snorting with impatience to be off . |
| 30 | Once luncheon was over , the afternoon began in earnest for both groups of devoted toilers . |