Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was against her knees ; the parcels lay about them still wrapped , being easier to pack . |
| 2 | In 1872 , the Glasgow Mission for the Deaf was properly reorganised , and Strathern was secretary for them then acted as treasurer for many years until he resigned due to differences with the then committee . |
| 3 | He was Arthur Wharton , a Jamaican about whom little recorded evidence exists apart from his sprinting achievements . |
| 4 | Broadly expressed , variable analysis is the disposition to see and describe social life as a collection of variables which , potentially , can be quantified and the relationships between them also measured and described in quantitative terms . |
| 5 | Negotiators from the two countries agreed in Geneva , at the end of the 15th round of bilateral talks which closed on April 26 , to cut their chemical weapons stocks to 5,000 tonnes each , and in June a summit accord between them formally endorsed a ban on the production of chemical weapons [ see p. 37518 ] . |
| 6 | So I did really enjoy reading this report , a well written report , and for me well received , and I offer my congratulations for it . |
| 7 | Receiving for me always contained a degree of embarrassment that I am only now beginning to come to terms with . |
| 8 | The catalogue raisonné which the German collector Dieter Blume has been compiling since the late 1970s has now reached its ninth volume , and has a general index listing well over 2000 unique sculptures , from Caro 's schoolboy efforts under the tutelage of Charles Wheeler , through his heavily modelled ‘ geometry of fear ’ period when he was Moore 's assistant , to the more distinctive Caro of the welded steel constructions which began in the 1960s . |
| 9 | Having carefully observed the moon through his newly invented telescope , Galileo was able to report that the moon was not a smooth sphere but that its surface abounded in mountains and craters . |
| 10 | Jo Gross assesses the career of one of the finest post-war portraitists , a man whose love of humanity shone through his classically constructed shots |
| 11 | What an awful confusion of overwhelming feeling for someone well advanced in years to be coping with . |
| 12 | It must have done , Leith realised , for Rosemary was still taking the greatest pains that not so much as a whiff of the fact that she might care for someone else got out . |
| 13 | Indeed , it is not unusual for someone recently retired ( and perhaps looking forward to it ) to find themselves coping with sharply increasing dependency of their parents and unable to enjoy the period of active leisure which they were anticipating . |
| 14 | Then Paul Weller formed a group with the extraordinarily hopeless name of The Paul Weller Movement ( for someone so fascinated by Englishness , you 'd think he 'd have noticed the national Jokes About Bowels obsession ) , started performing Jam songs and left Polydor . |
| 15 | Not a partnership — strangely for someone so set in his own ways , Ken would be willing to do as he was told , as far as work was concerned . |
| 16 | He leaned back , savouring the cigar , letting the smoke drift slowly from between his slightly parted lips . |
| 17 | But a new wall in that particular place spelt trouble for my carefully nurtured hypothesis . |
| 18 | But the expectation would not be driven out … and yet Harrison was a fine man and there was something about his miserably presented directness which made her want to scoop him up . |
| 19 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 20 | Of course , apocryphal stories only proliferate about someone widely held in great affection ; and in Runcorn 's case the reason for the affection is not hard to find . |
| 21 | Einstein licked his wounds after his long drawn out battle with Bohr about the uncertainty principle . |
| 22 | When the war broke out , Anna was commissioned into the Army , where she did her service for her newly adopted country . |
| 23 | RTS trainees from Eastern area practise their team building and raft building skills during their Outward Bound course at Llanberis in North Wales |
| 24 | Garrick Investments Ltd ( ‘ Garrick ’ ) holds its interest through its wholly owned subsidiaries , Tygon Investments Ltd and Jaguar Investments Ltd . |
| 25 | The disposal of the group 's interest in Tanaka Matthey KK does not constitute the discontinuation of a business under FRS3 since the group is continuing operations in Japan through its wholly owned subsidiary , Johnson Matthey Japan Limited . |
| 26 | ‘ The Republic can only pursue legal action through its duly appointed executive , namely the interim government which instructs me . |
| 27 | It went this conference believes , that the role of trade union councils at local level , whose value is clearly acknowledged , must be strengthened by being given the right to express a view through its democratically elected delegates at annual conference within the framework of the T U C. |
| 28 | Moreover , through their well directed efforts , that vast resource of past literature and scriptures , every item of which is capable of innumerable interpretations , could be saved from that ultimate oblivion and loss to humanity which could result from its sheer overwhelming quantity and complexity . |
| 29 | In all these publications , Sony — through their recently formed Sony Electronic Publishing Company — control technical specification of the products , their packaging and distribution . |
| 30 | Outside the central parsec , stars ( other than supernovae ) primarily influence nuclear activity through their collectively generated , barred gravitational potential . |