Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1872 , the Glasgow Mission for the Deaf was properly reorganised , and Strathern was secretary for them then acted as treasurer for many years until he resigned due to differences with the then committee . |
| 2 | What an awful confusion of overwhelming feeling for someone well advanced in years to be coping with . |
| 3 | Then Paul Weller formed a group with the extraordinarily hopeless name of The Paul Weller Movement ( for someone so fascinated by Englishness , you 'd think he 'd have noticed the national Jokes About Bowels obsession ) , started performing Jam songs and left Polydor . |
| 4 | Not a partnership — strangely for someone so set in his own ways , Ken would be willing to do as he was told , as far as work was concerned . |
| 5 | Of course , apocryphal stories only proliferate about someone widely held in great affection ; and in Runcorn 's case the reason for the affection is not hard to find . |
| 6 | That track might have been the boundary of the world for some villagers , most of whom rarely ventured beyond their nearest market town . |
| 7 | Eventually perhaps , but a Senate hearing on June 22 on the proposal drew only two Senators , one of whom quickly departed for another engagement . |
| 8 | ‘ The first and the last of Mr Dickens 's works were aptly set here in Rochester , ’ she informed the party , all of whom then turned to her under the impression she was leading the party , earning another glare from Samuel . |
| 9 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
| 10 | He could think of nothing less suited to him , and the job went instead to his colleague at the Home Office , David Mellor , who subsequently pipped him to the Cabinet . |
| 11 | TESTING for a short list of illicit drugs has been labelled as myopic , since the working population as a whole tends to abuse a vast pharmacopoeia of legal but impairing substances , many of them heavily promoted by distilleries and pharmaceutical firms . |
| 12 | It now has 680 pages , many of them richly illuminated with a flamboyant exuberance unique in Irish and Insular manuscript art . |
| 13 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
| 14 | However , it is worth noting two significant variants of this account , both of them closely associated with communist party intellectuals of various shades : state monopoly capitalist theory , and the various movements and arguments described as Eurocommunist . |
| 15 | France has 40 resorts and Spain 31 , most of them little known over here but none the worse for that , provided you can speak the appropriate language . |
| 16 | As a result , some of them even behaved like schoolchildren ; it was not uncommon , apparently , for students at A to throw paper aeroplanes in lectures — a rather immature ( but possibly understandable ) response to the frustration of endless listening and note-taking . |
| 17 | In 1982 electricity utilities cancelled 18 nuclear power stations , some of them well advanced in construction . |
| 18 | The evacuees filled most of the small hotels and the Savoy , many of them financially supported by the British Government . |
| 19 | Seriously enough that is , to attempt a genetic transplant of a high concentration of Dutchness in the form of a complete theme-city , with canals , windmills , gabled houses and monuments such as the 112 metre high late Gothic Dom-tower of Utrecht , all of them exactly reproduced with an astonishing attention to detail and accuracy . |
| 20 | He may also wish to take in such oddities as the Bible in shorthand and , if he can find them , the portions published in the dialects : of Cornwall , Cumberland , Dorset , Durham , Devonshire , etc. , most of them privately printed for Prince Lucien Bonaparte , who included the Song of Solomon in twenty-four dialects among his list of nearly eighty publications , his English agent being Bernard Quaritch of 15 Piccadilly . |
| 21 | Eventually , one of them tactfully suggested to Philip V that the perpetual alliance should simply be sworn , and also a mutual oath not to harbour enemies or those banished from either kingdom . |
| 22 | As a consequence of this research historians know very well the variety of factors which led to the dispute — many of them already outlined in the earlier sections of this chapter . |
| 23 | There have been better hold-down devices of a home-made nature in Woodworker in the past — the best of them doubtless designed after some careful thoughts about an acceptable specification . |
| 24 | However , the contract will doubtless contain other terms , some of them expressly agreed between the parties ( e.g. the date of delivery ) and some of them implied ( often by other sections of the Sale of Goods Act — e.g. as to the place of delivery , section 29(2) ) . |
| 25 | Hundreds of thousands of them simply abandoned in so called orphanages . |
| 26 | While I was sitting waiting for Jenny , a number of well-dressed women of about my age filed past me , some of them evidently wearied by their afternoon of serious picture-watching . |
| 27 | As we went to press , DEC was getting ready to set up nine new business units as part of its reorganization struggle , some of them reportedly headed by leaders brought in from the outside and others have yet to be chosen . |
| 28 | In exchange , many goods came into the country — some of them never seen in Britain before . |
| 29 | The nightmare vision is : down to three or four , with one of them still held by Sir Nicholas Fairbairn — try staffing the Scottish Office with that . |
| 30 | None of them ever knocked on Father Barnes 's door . |