Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then we got about another half an hour and we had another call . |
| 2 | Halfway round the ring when he asked for little more collection she offered no resistance and they moved as one into an easy working trot rising . |
| 3 | At my urging , he asked for some more photographs as I was keen on the idea of this spotlessly clean , ruthlessly attractive family in their Nordic pine kitchen . |
| 4 | The road from Hanover to Nordhausen passed through all that was best in West Germany and all that was worst in the East . |
| 5 | They passed through several more doors . |
| 6 | They payed for all this with their sweat and their lives , just like the Garrimperos today . |
| 7 | It 's what I used for all that weird Eno-esque synth stuff over Morrissey 's Last Of The Famous International Playboys single . |
| 8 | Against that consider the following despicable episode which occurred during that same visit . |
| 9 | Without ceremony , we headed past all these busy people and knocked on the half-open door of the secretary 's office . |
| 10 | Yet when you bumped into that same person , they would always talk about him in the most loving way . ’ |
| 11 | If it is too thick , beat in some more hot milk . |
| 12 | Sheldon Krimsky 's book stems from this study , but in the light of the other books devoted to this same goal that have appeared over the past five years , it is worth considering what Genetic Alchemy adds to previous efforts . |
| 13 | Reacting to him physically , just as she used to all those years ago . |
| 14 | And if if this was covered up here I E this this black dot was say made white let's say , we 'd only have two matching and if that was made white we 'd have one and then if we changed at all that top row we 'd have zero matching . |
| 15 | But I came through all that and thought , I 'm never going to feel guilty about how I feel again , or what I want to do . |
| 16 | Well , we got through it all , I can scarcely believe that I came through all that and thoroughly enjoyed the excitement of it , and was not in the least bit sea-sick . |
| 17 | How on earth I came through all those perils unscathed , unarrested , is one of the miracles of my early life . |
| 18 | But I do n't know how it was , but it came about that this confiscation business was dropped just as soon as we Labour got into power . |
| 19 | According to Foujita , the dealer 's ‘ method ’ was ‘ to sit reading a paper on the esplanade or to go into hotels , presumably with a rendezvous with a duke or some important person , but nothing came of all this ’ . |
| 20 | The confrontation involved in sex seemed of all those available to me for that purpose the most powerful , the most open , the most personal . |
| 21 | Both Himmler and Hitler disapproved of all this dangerous activity — they needed him — and Heydrich often had to sneak back to Berlin on late-night transport planes to cover the fact that he had been battling with the RAF instead of with the enemies of the State at RHSA headquarters . |
| 22 | Maybe he ate like that all the time . |
| 23 | It was this nouveaux riches strategy which so jarred with those such as Veblen who had been raised on the more general American ethic that work itself was a highly moral activity in which pride should be taken , as in the case of Weber 's Protestant ethic which valued utility and austerity . |
| 24 | For , in the act of creativity , struggle and conflict are necessary elements instilled in all that is created . |
| 25 | And news came in that all local service personnel in cinemas , pubs and dance-halls had been ordered back to their units . |
| 26 | Harbour improvements continued alongside the thriving coastal trade , but the biggest investment necessarily came in those few ports which dominated overseas trade . |
| 27 | If he held his own with other boys in the struggle for power he could hardly help behaving in ways which were unlikely to be lovable — a fact which assumed a definite importance when the only hope of affection came from those same boys . |
| 28 | ‘ I will remind you only that , added to all this , my employer is not likely to live very long , and I am therefore already at the necessity of seeking another post . |
| 29 | Discussing this later at one of the Observations planning meetings , the idea of sharing ‘ inspirational works ’ appealed to all those present as complementing a tendency in review columns to focus on new titles and ‘ how to do it ’ guides . |
| 30 | He had been accused of clinging to Office , but he appealed to all those present to say whether such a charge was justifiable . |