Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back at her flat , though , she made herself a cup of tea and was able to give her thoughts free rein — all of them centred on Naylor Massingham . |
| 2 | Badger gassing , the infallible and humane method of killing them recommended by Lord Zuckerman was stopped on the grounds that it was fallible and inhumane . |
| 3 | An average ant colony might use around 12 different types of signal , most of them conveyed by means of chemical ‘ pheromones ’ secreted on to the ground by various glands and then sniffed in the air by other ants . |
| 4 | Each one of them exterminated in Sobibor , the photograph fluttering into a pile of a thousand personal papers and documents with tens of thousands of spectacles and hundreds of thousands of shoes and boots — to be salvaged or burnt and either way lost for ever . |
| 5 | Conservationists have expressed concern over the future of Britain 's peatlands because a deal aimed at preserving them agreed in January 1992 [ see ED 55 ] has still not been signed and could be abandoned . |
| 6 | Five new in on 6th .. two of them piloted by Plt.Off . |
| 7 | They refused to leave on request and attempts to eject them failed on account of the sudden arrival of reinforcements from the local station . |
| 8 | His conversations with me centred on Heidegger and death " . |
| 9 | They made little impact and at the end of the decade some of them resorted to terrorist attacks on senior officials in an effort to destabilize the government . |
| 10 | They erm well apparently he said a few of them got in trouble he said , and heads had to roll and one of them was his ! |
| 11 | How many of them led to changes in classroom practice ? |
| 12 | This convention retained something of the laconic style of drafting of its Latin American predecessors , and like them applied in principle to both the service of documents and the taking of evidence . |
| 13 | After some years the designs from the Empire influenced fashionable people in their taste , and Roman style bronze brooches and bangles , some of them made in Britain , were worn by the men and women of prosperous families . |
| 14 | Newman , what was the weather like when me met in Lübeck ? ’ |
| 15 | The look she gave me changed from fear to disgust . |
| 16 | Three of them charged towards Gallagher . |
| 17 | Most wore white masks and all of them bristled with equipment : fly whisks , cameras , binoculars , Walkmans , water bottles . |
| 18 | Through reading the Bible we discover fundamental truths about God , and see them demonstrated by events in the lives of his people which illuminate his character and illustrate his will for all men at all times . |
| 19 | Constitutions there have certain essential characteristics , none of them found in Britain . |
| 20 | Waist exercise 1 : keep your legs apart and raise both arms above your head , keeping them bent at 90° . |
| 21 | On the other hand , for all his ferocity in matters of principle , the archbishop was an aged and a sick man who had suffered too many humiliations and had offended too many of his fellow prelates in the 1290s and since to command strong support from them ; he was still unsure of papal backing for his measures , and indeed found them countermanded by Clement . |
| 22 | She kneaded me , all right , she wanted me transformed into puff pastry just like Daddy . |
| 23 | Lake Okeechobee is so full of nutrients , most of them traced to cow manure , that algae have all but suffocated it . |
| 24 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 25 | Much as the work fascinated me , and fonder each day as I became of Edward , there was nevertheless a growing sense of frustration . |
| 26 | The application was renewed to the full court ( Taylor L.J. , Waterhouse and Kennedy JJ. ) on 5 March 1992 and was granted , the grounds of appeal being , that conversations between the undercover police officers and the appellant were interviews and , therefore , the rules in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( s. 66 ) Codes of Practice ( ‘ the PACE Codes ’ ) ought to have been but were not observed , that the effect of the police operation had been to trick the appellant and his co-accused into self-incrimination , and that pursuant to Reg. v. Sang [ 1980 ] A.C. 402 the court ought to have excluded the evidence under section 78 of the Act of 1984 . |
| 27 | ‘ I did not ask them about you , I asked about Jeopardy . ’ |
| 28 | can you think of an remember when I asked about introductions and things of that nature ? |
| 29 | About four years ago , while negotiating a new house insurance , I asked about coverage of my wife 's knitting machines while in transit to and from evening classes . |
| 30 | I asked about side effects and was told all drugs have side effects , even paracetemol . |