Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations .
2 At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations .
3 This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain .
4 Well we got through several toasters in a year .
5 And you know they ca n't go , this one ca n't go earlier than that one because we 've got the sequence and so if we got through these steps , I think that those steps are the same steps that we go through on any project .
6 Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal .
7 However , it 's impossible for anyone who lived through those times to settle down to cosy domesticity , the world without adventure that Marius Goring offers Shearer .
8 It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times .
9 Most of us who lived through those times will , I believe , never forget the impact made by their unique hair styles and the famous jackets with no collars .
10 An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years .
11 Sometimes I asked about these stories .
12 I said , Why do n't you just say , ‘ I asked about those records you ordered ? ’
13 He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them .
14 She lived for many years , and preserved a record that she had been treated with Penicillium .
15 Patients lived for many years , and some died from causes unrelated to their blood pressure .
16 For instance , this year there will be a film marking the centenary of Leo Walmsley , the novelist who lived for many years at Robin Hood 's Bay .
17 I lived for many years in the north of England .
18 Good Friday is about punks at Hastings , where I lived for many years , seen feeding a hot-cross bun to pigeons .
19 He lived for many years at Brockham , Betchworth , Surrey , and died there 10 April 1935 .
20 Never married , Lottie Dod lived for many years in London before moving to Milford-on-Sea .
21 It was almost a model village , with its Quality Street , where a future head of the Secret Service lived for many years .
22 Bottcher Strawalde is an artist who lived for several decades in the shadow of the Berlin Wall ( the film was discovered or rediscovered by Parisians a month ago at the Jeu de Paume ) .
23 In order to observe this and to try to understand something of what life in the movement was like at first hand — and , of course , to try to observe the operation of sociological variables such as social control — I lived for several periods of a week or so , over a span of six years , in Unification centres and participated in various of their functions .
24 Some lived for several days in this pitiful condition , their feet gnawed by dogs , until they died in agony .
25 Miguel joins us direct from BARCELONA , where he lived for several months .
26 And while Toff claims his techniques are very much part of the English slipware tradition , his pots often look like something out of Africa , where he lived for several years .
27 The late Miss Pepper , who lived for some years at The Bield , spoke of the ‘ throwing up ’ of fleeces during clipping to a helper on the gallery .
28 The story of Hereward was later popularised by the novelist Charles Kingsley ( 1819–1875 ) , who lived for some years at Barnack Rectory , about four miles to the south-east of Stamford .
29 And all the time you were n't really there , you were somewhere else entirely , and the funniest part of it was that you ended up looking like a pro , like a model who lived for these moments in the public eye .
30 She asked for some answers to specific points .
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