Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the same duty was owed to those from within as to those from without the area , the adoption of criteria for selection which distinguished between them plainly conflicted with the express statutory duty laid down by section 6(5) . |
| 2 | There was little demand from local trade unions and the Divisional Committee appears to have been only modestly active , probably because where well-established trade union organisations had members interested in educational opportunities , links between them already existed through the WEA branch organisation and were especially effective in Northamptonshire , Bedford , Luton and Ipswich . |
| 3 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 4 | Bill : The gay movement for me really started with the South London GLF in 1972 . |
| 5 | President Assad visited Mubarak in Alexandria on Aug. 28 , after which both called for an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal and a " restoration of legitimacy " in Kuwait . |
| 6 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 7 | To develop his system , the idea for which probably came to him during a passing involvement with cable trams , Holroyd Smith built three experimental miniature lines in Halifax during 1883–4 . |
| 8 | He had links with the rulers purged by the king in 1258 , some of whom likewise emerged as Montfortians in 1263 . |
| 9 | To the amazement of suburbanites ( many of whom once lived in the city ) , Detroiters continue to re-elect politicians who are less than squeaky clean . |
| 10 | Now an acting sergeant , he had a platoon of forty men to prepare for battle , all of whom still came under the overall command of Captain Trentham , who had n't been seen since the day Tommy had been released . |
| 11 | Josh was still bewildered by the sudden change in living standard from California sun and the constant care of cheerful Kathy ( now working for another family in nearby Markham Square ) to the stuffy flat in Pimlico where his babysitter , Mrs Gooden , a retired cook , watched over Josh and her other six little charges , one of whom always seemed to be bare-bottomed and on the potty . |
| 12 | One of them even slept in the same room as her , but heard nothing . |
| 13 | In her interesting and vivid description of the first wave Marjorie Cosens quoted numerous testimonies by teachers to this effect , and some of them even wrote to the Board of Education . |
| 14 | Some of them even came from within the nuclear fold , concerned that the truth should be told from the inside out . |
| 15 | Some of them helped , but most of them just stood in their doorways and watched . |
| 16 | The flowers were mainly chosen to accentuate the overall silvery effect , but some of them also came from the ‘ bride 's ’ garden , as I felt this would give the picture additional meaning for her . |
| 17 | All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function . |
| 18 | A minority of them never went to B at all , but went straight to A and searched , like the others , at a visibly empty space . |
| 19 | The two of them still gazed at me with resentful misunderstanding . |
| 20 | There 's millions of junkies and not one of them ever wanted to be a junkie . ’ |
| 21 | About 60 of them actually appeared in print and not necessarily in the order of context I had written them . |
| 22 | It was one thing to be opposed to discrimination ( and many of them now began for the first time to say that they did , indeed , oppose it ) , but it was quite another thing to talk openly about equal validity of sexuality . |
| 23 | Some of them indeed seemed to be at the service , looking somehow different from the ‘ office workers ’ for whom the services had been arranged . |
| 24 | But I knew straight away that you and that handsome husband of yours just had to be Leos ! ’ |
| 25 | No messenger of his ever went to Rome in the early years of Henry I 's reign without pressing for a papal confirmation of Canterbury 's primacy . |
| 26 | His father was running a small lock-shop in Bolton Gedge worked in the room above writing songs , many of which later appeared on the début album . |
| 27 | From the Newfoundland and Labrador collections of Joseph Banks , he painted twenty-three plants , five of which later appeared in Aiton 's Hortus Kewensis . |
| 28 | Around 150 works , many of which previously hung in the bedrooms and bathrooms of the Thyssen homes , and have not been exhibited previously , will be hung in galleries whose pre-war Germanic museum style has been replaced by modern tones of grey . |
| 29 | The antique and classic park included much to interest the enthusiast , with bucket loads of Stearmen and Staggerwings , all manner of Ryan , Waco , Stinson and Cessna variants , oddest of which just had to be the Waco ZVN–8 N1937S , a 1938 built biplane with tricycle undercarriage ! |
| 30 | Over the next hundred years a motley collection of military servicemen ( voennosluzhilie lyudi , fur-hunters , merchants , government officials , Orthodox clergymen , fugitive serfs , entrepreneurs and tradesmen ( promyshlenniki ) , convicts , religious dissidents , foreign prisoners-of-war ( generically known as Litva , ‘ Lithuanians ’ ) , cossacks , artisans , adventurers and vagrants ( gulyashchie lyudi ) steadily overwhelmed the indigenous Siberian native population and established a strongly defended network of wooden fortresses , outposts and stockaded population points , several of which swiftly grew from small military and administrative settlements into substantial , bustling frontier towns , a process described in more detail by David Collins in Chapter 2 of this book . |