Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happens now ? ’ she finally asked when the silence between them had become stretched to breaking-point . |
| 2 | Erm I think Mr and and Mr between them have have covered most of what I wanted to say so I 'll I 'll just endorse those points but the the other matter . |
| 3 | It was kicked around like a football from family to family , none of whom seemed to have loved it or to have been able to hold on to it for long . |
| 4 | Obviously , the heroin use of their son or daughter came as a great shock to most parents , many of whom seem to have had little or no idea that their offspring was involved in any drug use whatsoever , let alone daily heroin use . |
| 5 | So for most of them strayed prayed stayed played you can just put E D. |
| 6 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 7 | It may well be that some of them regret having made the decision . |
| 8 | I mean most of them had to go chaperoned to lectures and things . |
| 9 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 10 | Half of them seemed to have met their partners at practice or come from bell-ringing families . |
| 11 | Both of them seem to have decided to become novelists with teeth gritted , by sheer force of will . |
| 12 | We know the approximate age of eight English bishops who were in possession of their sees in 1153 : all of them seem to have lived to be over seventy . |
| 13 | Very few of them seem to have profited from their careers in anything but a short-term way . |
| 14 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 15 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State put before us a whole catalogue of countries that have ballistic missile capability , and a substantial number of them appear to have embarked on a nuclear weapons programme . |
| 17 | I even heard one of them claiming to have booked the slipway . |
| 18 | But the other thing that you have to er be erm very clear about is er on on the monetary side is if there are two signatories to the cheque , right ? both of them need to have signed it . |
| 19 | All this is not to say that Gloucester faced no problems , but none of them seems to have threatened his tenure of the protectorship . |
| 20 | All this is not to say that Gloucester faced no problems , but none of them seems to have threatened his tenure of the protectorship . |
| 21 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 22 | Neither of them seems to have read any work of Latin poetry , though at least Polybius must have become fluent in the language : even their direct use of Latin historians is doubtful . |
| 23 | The 80,000,000 yen in bribes was part of a total of more than 500,000,000 yen allegedly given by Kyowa to Abe , some of which appeared to have found its way directly into the coffers of the Miyazawa faction without having been registered under the political funds control law . |
| 24 | Morris was to become his architectural collaborator , in effect succeeding Campbell in this role , the contact presumably having originated at Pembroke House , the building of which appears to have constituted Lord Herbert 's architectural apprenticeship . |
| 25 | In the general election , the incumbent , Brown had two strategies , neither of which seems to have worked very well . |
| 26 | This same guilloche also makes up the border of the saltire , thus enclosing the curved sides of the semi-roundels , all of which appear to have contained a seabeast . |
| 27 | Prescott is right in restating old principles , some of which have become obscured in the rush for the political centre ground . |
| 28 | That all of you managed to come meant the world to Daddy . ’ |
| 29 | Now then , do any of you happen to have learnt the two-times table already ? ’ |
| 30 | Sinead O'Connor : the ‘ rigorous autobiography ’ , the way both of you seem to have stopped living in order to document more completely your adolescence . |