Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Karen last weekend , after you were sitting for them suddenly took ill on the Saturday I think , and Sheila was n't in any great shape , so he went back home er , from the office an over his lunch hour to see if he could just go and lend a hand , ge generally help out over his lunch hour . |
| 2 | If the same duty was owed to those from within as to those from without the area , the adoption of criteria for selection which distinguished between them plainly conflicted with the express statutory duty laid down by section 6(5) . |
| 3 | The battle of wits between them again featured prominently in the proceedings of the Macmillan Committee under the second Labour government . |
| 4 | The two environmentalist parties ( the Greens led by Antoine Waechter and Génération Ecologie led by Environment Minister Brice Lalonde ) between them also polled 13.9 per cent of the vote . |
| 5 | It often used to be said that Britain had a two-party political system , meaning by this not merely that the electoral system favoured the two major parties , but , less contentiously , that these two parties between them nearly monopolized the votes cast . |
| 6 | There was little demand from local trade unions and the Divisional Committee appears to have been only modestly active , probably because where well-established trade union organisations had members interested in educational opportunities , links between them already existed through the WEA branch organisation and were especially effective in Northamptonshire , Bedford , Luton and Ipswich . |
| 7 | Because of the regular placement of the chairs around the fire , they were quite close together — and yet the small spaces between them quickly became boundaries . |
| 8 | He saw Balfour and Lloyd George in such different lights that , the issue of the Admiralty apart , the idea of an alliance between them hardly entered his head . |
| 9 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 10 | The 1982 and 1984 BCS between them only uncovered two cases of attempted rape and 17 and 18 sexual assaults respectively ( Jones et al . |
| 11 | In 1806 a handful of major companies — the Sun Fire Office ( 1710 ) , the Royal Exchange Assurance ( 1721 ) and the Phoenix Fire Office ( 1782 ) — between them still transacted 60 per cent of fire insurance . |
| 12 | The air between them suddenly seemed static , as she fought for the words to justify her decision . |
| 13 | Bill : The gay movement for me really started with the South London GLF in 1972 . |
| 14 | So I could always go up there and I used there little drill for one thing and another in the first place and er built that premise for me there did and I did er |
| 15 | Aboard his recently acquired Aprilia , the Whitehall rider gave the best expert class performance in the Waterlooville Club trial , which was contested on a very difficult course at Budden 's Bank , near Chalton on Saturday . |
| 16 | The contrary relation will therefore show up in a sentential context that specifies , or at least implies , that a single event is being referred to , such as I only met Mary once , and that was today/yesterday or ( somewhat less convincingly ) It was today/yesterday that I met Mary . |
| 17 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 18 | He wanted to know whether they would be prepared to take payment for what they produced after everyone else had taken a cut . |
| 19 | President Assad visited Mubarak in Alexandria on Aug. 28 , after which both called for an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal and a " restoration of legitimacy " in Kuwait . |
| 20 | Often at this time of day , when he felt the day 's journey should be ending or reaching a destination , but knowing that it was not , knowing that what he was looking for probably happened after everybody else had gone home , he wished that he could end his days walking at the edge of a sea or a lake so big that you could n't see its other shore . |
| 21 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 22 | Some interesting pink Champagnes are made in this village which was once known for its long lived red wines . |
| 23 | A possibility originally considered by Lubow and Moore ( 1959 ) as an explanation for their newly discovered latent inhibition effect was that during pre-exposure the subject might come to perform some response to the stimulus that interfered with the response monitored during conditioning . |
| 24 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 25 | During their holidays the two men investigated the glacial deposits and Old Red Sandstone of Caithness , Orkney , and Shetland , publishing papers ( 1879–84 ) for which both received awards from the Geological Society . |
| 26 | It was indeed rice crispies , a substance for which Amiss had always felt a dislike verging on contempt . |
| 27 | In the end , it worked out very much better than expected , essentially because the two companies had outstanding chief executives , both of whom eventually succeeded me as chairman . |
| 28 | He had links with the rulers purged by the king in 1258 , some of whom likewise emerged as Montfortians in 1263 . |
| 29 | In addition , he had to mould a group of individuals , some of whom barely knew each other , into a team . |
| 30 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |