Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pockets were emptied of loose change , parcels scanned as if for a malignant tumour and handbags rifled for evidence of evil intent . |
| 2 | Thrown up to the surface , diced as if by an ace Chinese chef ready for stir fry . |
| 3 | The white marble squares on the pavement glowed as if on a phantom chessboard . |
| 4 | He rose as if in a daze , found a space on the floor and sat down . |
| 5 | But in winter , ‘ As the darkness thickened the wind increased , and each blast raked the iron railings before the houses till they hummed as if in a song of derision ’ . |
| 6 | Athelstan had talked to another friar who had seen Wallingford 's ingenious clock , the wheels within it fixed as if by magic , which not only measured the hours but indicated the states and signs , the phases of the moon , the position of the sun , the planets and the heavens . |
| 7 | The stranger peered between and beyond the silent , uneasy company , but he could not glimpse the boy . |
| 8 | ‘ Run and fetch Tremayne , ’ Mackie told him , and he sprang instantly to his feet and sprinted away along the road to the right , his feet impelled as if by demons . |
| 9 | The charge is void whether or not the event which gave rise to its voidness occurred during or after the end of the 21-day period . |
| 10 | Baldwin , in the Coalition Government , was a moon who moved with and around the leader of the Conservative Party . |
| 11 | My sister moved from cos of that . |
| 12 | The first law says that if the process communicates , the environment is not interested in whether this occurred before or after a SKIP guard . |
| 13 | The frequency of fluent restorations is thus an indication of whether mispronunciations occurred before or after the recognition point of a word , and thus an indication of where in a word the recognition point actually occurred . |
| 14 | ‘ I laugh but not like I used to and at times like birthdays and anniversaries I have such a lonely feeling . |
| 15 | The muscles are absolutely rigid , proof that the grasp occurred at or about the moment of death . |
| 16 | They include the Authority 's discharge and trasnfer policies , most of the deaths occurred at or around the time when patients were moved . |
| 17 | Most Greek religious festivals occurred at or near full moon , but since they were associated with agricultural activities they had to take place at the appropriate times of the year . |
| 18 | And there were dark rings under his eyes , which burned as if with a fever . |
| 19 | She watched as he narrowed his eyes and squinted as if against the brightness of the sun . |
| 20 | Sometimes , although she chided herself for the thought , it seemed as if in trying to be unselfish and giving him what he wanted , she had allowed herself to be turned into a sacrifice . |
| 21 | And there came with him thirty and six Kings , and one Moorish Queen , who was a negress , and she brought with her two hundred horsewomen , all negresses like herself , all having their hair shorn save a tuft on the top , and this was in token that they came as if upon a pilgrimage , and to obtain the remission of their sins ; and they were all armed in coats of mail and with Turkish bows . |
| 22 | We turned to the shore and paddled as if for our lives . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) An appeal under this section shall be lodged with the sheriff clerk within 14 days from the date of the decision appealed against or in a case where reasons for a decision have been given under section 18(2) of this Act , within 14 days from the date of receipt of those reasons , which shall be presumed to have been received on the day after the date on which they were posted , except that in the case of reasons posted on a Friday or Saturday , they shall be presumed to have been received on the Monday next following . |
| 24 | Credit assessment — judging the profitable amount of credit to give , in what form and who to give it to — acquired new significance with the social changes that came with and after the First World War , and the even greater upheaval with the much bigger population after the Second . |
| 25 | Initially young pupils were asked to decide whether one thing came before or after another , without reference to precise dates . |
| 26 | The causal sequence is unimportant , that is , whether the elation or depression came before or after the rise or fall , as the importance of the behaviour would be that ‘ he should stay down quietly and not try to make a comeback for some considerable time ’ ! |
| 27 | The unspoken subtext of Barley 's amusing odyssey in search of Raffles is this : was all western imperialism really so bad , and were not men like Raffles far better rulers than the exploiters , white and brown , who came before and after them ? |
| 28 | Each time he set off , it was obvious to those of us who loved him that he was wildly out of control and a danger to those who came before and after him . |
| 29 | Yet Hunt could not say what station the broadcast came from nor upon which date it was transmitted . |
| 30 | The first turkeys were shipped to Europe in the 17th Century when ‘ Turkish ’ was a blanket term for anything which came from or through Arab lands . |