Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wars that were to end abruptly and , ironically , for reasons that had nothing to do with internal musical divisions . |
| 2 | They came for glory and found themselves huddled together in the smallest of Whalley Range bedsits . |
| 3 | She looked at Travis for support and found him grim-faced . |
| 4 | The survey looked at which cities cater for cyclists and covered everything from parking facilities to potholes . |
| 5 | A man said he had breathed for ages and felt nothing . |
| 6 | Dmitri had been checking it for misprints and left it to get messed up like this . |
| 7 | There was something about Mortimer that made her uneasy . |
| 8 | On the moors O'Hara had endeavoured to summon up Heathcliff , and a gust of wind from beyond the grave had blown the cycle off course and toppled them both into a ditch . |
| 9 | These ‘ other ’ for signs that signalled its ‘ innate physical , mental and moral inferiority ’ ( David Green ‘ On Foucault ’ in Ten 8 No 14 ) . |
| 10 | Modigliani was pleased when Zbo responded quickly to his pleas for money and told his dealer he was going back to work : ‘ I must explain — though real explanations are impossible in letters — that there has been a ‘ vacuum ’ . |
| 11 | At the New Contemporaries Exhibition in 1961 he and his wife bought Hockney 's Doll Boy for £40 and invited him round to tea — ‘ black hair , crew-cut , frightfully shy , I arrived late . |
| 12 | A contingent headed for Plymouth and met their first serious resistance at Trematon Castle by Saltash , held for the King by Sir Richard Grenville . |
| 13 | Sun Alliance sold the majority of its 14.24% stake in Commercial Union for £280m and merged its Australian non-life operation with Royal Insurance 's to form the fourth largest general insurer in Australia . |
| 14 | UMWA women recently held a birthday party for Roberts and presented him with a plaque engraved with his now famous quote . |
| 15 | ‘ It will be said and believed that you lay in wait for Aldhelm and killed him , so that he could never point the finger at you . ’ |
| 16 | Barrow , the former Liphook all-rounder , wants to continue playing Minor Counties cricket for Berkshire and felt it was in his interests to join a division one side . |
| 17 | Rain thought this unusually malicious for Wainfleet and wondered what could possibly be behind it . |
| 18 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 19 | No-one had told him about schools or explained their purpose . |
| 20 | The others had potential , but I bathed and groomed her as if for Crufts and made my way to the hospital . |
| 21 | Hamish Hamilton and I went on search for survivors but found nothing , except sea marks of crashed aircraft . ’ |
| 22 | I have always remembered her as saying ‘ One came between brothers and shared their tutor ’ as an explanation of her knowledge of Greek . |
| 23 | Big-punching Wharton is also free of the agony in his right hand that plagued him for months and reduced him to a one-armed fighter when he was held to a draw by Londoner Lou Gent in November . |
| 24 | I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth . |
| 25 | She had searched for pictures and added them to her dreams , gypsies dancing , donkeys plodding through narrow streets , dazzling white houses and cool patios drenched in flowers . |
| 26 | I hovered over the sideboard pretending to be looking for cutlery and strained my ears to catch the conversation . |
| 27 | The crisis secured his reputation as President and earned him immense popularity with the American people . |
| 28 | She looked just too guilty for words and knew it , and Felipe 's dark eyes flashed to the tray and the still unused tablet . |
| 29 | They , they used to build wings for the , they had er all pop riveters and they used to b build wings for the planes that finally came up to the airport down there and erm it was very much a structural set-up as I say I used to have to take plates down there from the airport to be normalized , it was er a sort of softening treatment for aluminium and made them easier to shape and rivet them onto the main fuselage , but they , they used to make Harvard wings and cowls , engine cowls , for the Bostons and Havocs they were n't the one type of Boston was a fighter bomber and another one it had the front navigator 's position cut out and they used to have a search light put in there which they used to call |
| 30 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |