Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had n't scattered monogrammed handkerchiefs about or faked alibis or carelessly dropped dated train tickets or shown knowledge he should n't have had . |
| 2 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 3 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 4 | The first boy says he 's never had vegge burgers before and thought it would be a good idea to try them . |
| 5 | In the end , all the Arab states dug their heels in and demanded refugee repatriation as an essential element to peace , thereby joining Israel in linking the refugee issue to an overall peace . |
| 6 | She dug her heels in and stopped . |
| 7 | We sang all the most common songs and our Christmas carol of our own , which we wrote the words to and illustrated our own booklet to give out to people . |
| 8 | Philip put his brakes on and skidded . |
| 9 | ‘ She develops this grandiose theory of herself as being important , and makes Truth Or Dare which I saw a couple of minutes of but had to stop watching because it was so unpleasant and embarrassing and awful . |
| 10 | Generally in rational expectations models in macroeconomics the policy rule generating the prediction for a variable comprises an equation whose determining variables typically comprise both lagged endogenous variables ( e.g. values of and lagged exogenous variables ( e.g. ) . |
| 11 | He then put the shoes on and laced them up . |
| 12 | We had thrown grenades before and used the LRAC rocket launcher so we were accustomed to the noise and strength of high-impact explosion . |
| 13 | They had never been on Scottish waters before and planned to go round Skye . |
| 14 | Upstairs , they switched taps on and flooded the bathroom and vandalised bedrooms . |
| 15 | He put his reading glasses on and looked more closely at it ; there were , he knew , dozens of different kinds of wood-lice , all classified , all named , distinguished by minute anatomical refinements , small but significant differences in the antennae or the genitalia . |
| 16 | Philip put his glasses on and stared at the boy . |
| 17 | ‘ We have suffered setbacks before and bounced back . ’ |
| 18 | But still she could not use it until she spent an accumulation of 2 ½ years filling out Ridiculous Redundant Forms from the Grand Canyon 's Department of Ridiculous Redundant Forms Redundancy Department , spent $4,967 in stamps mailing the forms in and had to get a skin graph on her tongue from licking stamps . |
| 19 | starting just past the river and continuing farther than the places I had names for or had ever seen . |
| 20 | This modified approach may only be employed where the client has agreed to the terms of and countersigned a corporate finance engagement letter issued to him by the firm . |
| 21 | Any client ( corporate or otherwise ) in relation to whom the firm performs services amounting to corporate finance activities provided he has agreed to the terms of and signed a corporate finance engagement letter issued to him by the firm . |
| 22 | She turned her thumb- and fingernails in and pinched , probing for painful pulses between the bones . |
| 23 | He wept , his head upon her knee , and presently his hand crept up between her knees and she did n't even pull away with a ‘ Sweet Jesus , what do you think you 're doing ? ’ but drew the curtains to and lit the gas fire to warm them both . |
| 24 | I got the drinks in and discovered that Dosh and Freddie were flat-sharing in Willesden and were both typists up from darkest Bedfordshire a mere three months before in search of bright lights , word-processor experience and more than six grand a year . |
| 25 | In 1897 Mr and Mrs Currer Briggs bought the most idyllic site they could lay their hands on and wrote to Mr Voysey the architect . |
| 26 | The men , Ronald Maine and Ronald Johnson , headed an international operation , smuggling drugs worth and estimated fifty eight million pounds . |
| 27 | We had time for a couple of runs through and set up the tape recorders ( I took two in case of trouble ! ) and by 10 a.m. we were all standing in our place s — white skirts dazzling and hearts beating fast — waiting for the signal to start . |
| 28 | ‘ Sam had brought a couple of trucks of water melons in and stacked them on the sidewalk . |
| 29 | The technical services representative for International Paint *Gulf ) is based in Bahrain and when an ice rink opened there last year Russell got his skates on and went along . |
| 30 | Yes , the atmosphere was outstanding as we put our clothes on and went downstairs to have something to eat . |