Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought he said he got through book one but is there some stuff in it he does n't understand yet ? |
| 2 | When parents applied for assistance they were asked to provide general information about the family , including occupations , earnings , rent , and size of accommodation . |
| 3 | When the firm applied for consent it was refused . |
| 4 | If he cared about orphans he could find plenty of them over here . |
| 5 | When she qualified for Barcelona we gave her a nice bit of sirloin and two turkey drumsticks . ’ |
| 6 | The golden circle and the golden cap which form the basis of Stephen 's Crown became for Hungary something more than the mere symbol of royalty . |
| 7 | Dunvegan became for Johnson his most successful visit of the Tour so far . |
| 8 | And now William was the last surviving friend of his childhood and they met as dissidents who have escaped the Gulag but left their roots behind and need each other to share the memories . |
| 9 | But er I was saying to Mrs the other day , asked about Scott what the heck ! |
| 10 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 11 | He claimed that customers were appalled by the players ' language and that when he asked for order they threatened to punch out his lights . |
| 12 | Mahmoud came in again later on and when we asked for books he said that we could have encyclopedias . |
| 13 | But Jim says the Minister asked for extras which added nearly £20,000 to the bill . |
| 14 | She asked for explanations which she received without comment , as if listening to someone who had just incriminated herself . |
| 15 | The outspoken Mrs Clinton , an assertive Leftish lawyer , has already become a campaign issue because of a scathing remark she made about women who ‘ stay at home and bake cookies ’ and because Mr Clinton says he will consider her for a job in his Cabinet once he wins the White House . |
| 16 | As we passed through Yorkshire I was terrified — and a little homesick . |
| 17 | She fought for the working class she fought for education she fought for everything to benefit the community she was a wonderful person ! |
| 18 | He fought for things we 'd disagree with , like wives staying at home . |
| 19 | It 's expensive though is n't it ? something like , we got for Emma you know , a bit , but not quite so expensive maybe . |
| 20 | ‘ The lads ’ , it was said , ‘ were in the habit of attending a cheap place of amusement at Sadler 's Wells , and quarrels arose about girls who accompanied them . |
| 21 | In some areas technical and central schools also provided for children who stayed on beyond the leaving age of fourteen . |
| 22 | Secondly she said there must be a change from the habit of dualism to , what she described as interconnectialism We must see a relationship between things . |
| 23 | The landowner , a former state and federal congressman , fenced off property which included part of the Truka land . |
| 24 | But when I when I when I trained as recruit I trained with a lot of other er lot of other people . |
| 25 | Well I can I can remember when I was a child and kids had a lot of time to do hobbies and a favourite hobby was to make a a garden and I never made one , but a friend of mine was ooh forever making these things and giving them away as presents you got the lid of a biscuit tin or something of that sort and you I do n't know what they used for grass they used to model little ducks and things and he had a piece of mirror to make a pond have you ever seen this done ? |
| 26 | The range of his talk was beyond me — even when not particularly profound , it was salted with allusions , and the connections he drew between things I had hitherto regarded as unconnected were startling . |
| 27 | And then they were put they were er put er in the fire wire brushed and all that and looked and inspected for cracks you see . |
| 28 | Natalie Merchant 's voice — so emotive it could make you like a song about King Of The Gits Jack Kerouac and feel sorry for the little bunny rabbits that we cruelly kill for a laugh — rose through songs which flew and were simultaneously ecstatic and melancholy . |
| 29 | In this respect , it behaved as others who have political power , money , or status do : it manipulated the media in order to create favourable impressions and images . |
| 30 | Stirling , Cooper and Seekings headed for Benina which they knew from past experience was a major repair base . |