Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [prep] these [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many people only laughed at these stories . |
| 2 | The Wilson committee largely concurred with these views , and pointed out the specific problems of small firms in raising long term finance , whether loan or equity . |
| 3 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |
| 4 | I just went past these fellows and one of them shouted , ‘ Hey , speccy four-eyes , ’ and I ignored them like you told me and then they came and took them off and stamped on them . ’ |
| 5 | Then they 'll be put on show in what we call habitat displays ' so that all the people of America who wo n't ever come here will be able to see them iii our nation 's capital just as they once lived in these jungles . |
| 6 | Lady Selvedge then rose and made her little speech — the one she always made on these occasions , for the ‘ cause ’ , whether Church , Conservative Party or District Nursing Association , was always a good one and it was safe to urge her hearers to spend just a little more than they thought they could afford , however relative the amount might be . |
| 7 | A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man . |
| 8 | A merciful amnesia usually came with these comas and who could deny it was a blessing ? |
| 9 | To Nigel 's disappointment , nothing ever came of these pick-ups . |
| 10 | Is there anything more peculiar , more idiosyncratic , more circumscribed in these expectations than in those of Pip , or of Dickens himself , towards being a gentleman ? |
| 11 | Other commentators , much more discomfited by these details than their colleagues , have suggested that the storyteller means the birds were flying three feet above the ground when they were caught ! |
| 12 | Right now he was groping Joanna who had taken her top off , as she always did on these occasions . |
| 13 | Even as he was preparing to uproot millions of peasants and to destroy their homes , Ceauşescu praised their patriotism in terms ringing with irony : ‘ In the toughest times , their forefathers did not desert the land where they were born , but in brotherhood with it , with the mountains , fields , rivers and great woods , they unflinchingly remained in these parts , defending their being , their right to free existence . ’ |
| 14 | In order to broaden interests he also invited to these courses experts from other disciplines : musicians , historians , gallery owners and poets . |
| 15 | The results for British , Japanese , Finnish , Australian and Hong Kong index futures , which allowed for transactions costs , suggest that arbitrage opportunities also existed in these markets . |
| 16 | The Romans also followed on these lines but adapted the construction to suit their more complex needs . |
| 17 | Animals also benefited from these operations : gravel pits have allowed many birds , including the Great Crested Grebe and the Little Ringed Plover , to increase in number or extend their range . |
| 18 | Other commentators also remarked on these changes . |
| 19 | One other conspicuous feature of the modern scene also appeared in these years . |
| 20 | Tyndall also lectured in these years on radiant heat , and on acoustics . |
| 21 | The majority of the other group of mainstream Protestants , so frequently castigated by these Puritans , held fast to an alternative religious outlook which , if perhaps more relaxed , was often no less valid or deeply felt . |
| 22 | According to Plutarch , writing in highly refined Greek circles in the early second century AD : ‘ Before this , Rome neither had nor even knew of these exqusite and refined things , nor was there in the city any love of what was charming and elegant ; rather , it was full of barbaric weapons and bloody spoils . ’ |
| 23 | The MRA international assembly held in Salisbury a couple of weeks ago dealt with these things . |
| 24 | She then looked for these citations in the databases . |
| 25 | She then looked for these citations in the databases . |
| 26 | The company still remains wholly comitted to these principles today and ensures they are shared by its franchisees . |
| 27 | No one else knew of these records , they were just another among the many secrets the two shared . |
| 28 | £ Well , I think I really had better stop there , and then if you want to ask any questions erm we can go into them , but perhaps I could just mention two things that I would like to have said more about , one was , that you probably know , there were three or two major epidemics in Oxford , of what they call plague , but it was probably a form of typhus , in 1643 and 44 , and a good deal of sickness , I think , still in 1645 , and the other was that there was a very serious fire , which almost certainly arose from these kind of living conditions , because Anthony Wood says it was a soldier roasting pig , erm and I think a lot of cooking went on in very unsuitable situations . |
| 29 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 30 | There are conflicting accounts of what actually transpired during these interviews . |