Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Playing against Celtic , however , is generally supposed to be difficult for someone who formerly captained the club and could not say that his regard for them ended on the day he was transferred . |
| 2 | A group apart , the links between them welded by the sheer weight of society pressing down upon them . |
| 3 | For this the British and French between them lost in the region of 600,000 men ; the Germans more than 440,000 . |
| 4 | Any fears , however , that Havel 's talent might be going off were for me resolved by the broadcast version of Redevelopment , given a dramatised reading by the RSC in February under the title Slum Clearance . |
| 5 | The letter she had left for me remained in the possession of the police as evidence . |
| 6 | Billie was fast asleep ; it had been a long and boring trip for someone crammed in the back . |
| 7 | The humid heat of the New Guinea forest had probably proven too much for someone used to the dank climate of south Wales , they reassured Joan . |
| 8 | ‘ This man Siward : how can he hope to hold Lothian , so far from York and from Durham , with a strength such as yours massed to the north of him ? |
| 9 | Yes , half way through I spoke to the environ environment officer |
| 10 | As Brown observes : ‘ 'What does he do ? ’ remains the most illuminating question to ask about someone met for the first time . ’ |
| 11 | After what happened to the poor idiot , Donny , at Sallins , just two miles down the road , an Arbuthnot would n't be a trouble to their consciences . |
| 12 | ‘ Would ye after what happened on the way up to Cajamarca ? ’ |
| 13 | Any issues affecting the relations of the Serbs with the imperial authorities or with their Muslim landlords and neighbours had to be dealt with by the Muslim authorities , most of whom operated from the cosmopolitan cities . |
| 14 | Other able practitioners of homoeopathy in America were Allen , Nash , Boenninghausen and Boericke — all of whom added to the homoeopathic literature and whose work is still used today by students of homoeopathy . |
| 15 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 16 | The Korean communists at Yenan probably numbered about 300 , some of whom fought with the CCF . |
| 17 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 18 | They found it hard to understand what he saw in the boys he now surrounded himself with , some of whom seemed to the girls stupid and callow and bad at drawing . |
| 19 | After all , the Lurgan outfit can boast the talents of Barry and Kevin O'Hagan as well as the mercurial skills of Diarmuid Marsden all of whom played for the Armagh Minor side last year . |
| 20 | More to the point , at that age , Auntie tells me , I saw no distinction between the two Fathers , both of whom lived in the sky . |
| 21 | In a very real sense , of course , the biographies of the Muftis in the following chapters illustrate the development of the hierarchy , but it seems not without point to concentrate attention on this particular aspect by placing side by side the biographies of two scholars , one of whom lived in the period before the hierarchy had become developed to any very great degree — before , perhaps , it is even possible to speak of a hierarchy-he other in a period when the development was fairly well advanced , though not complete . |
| 22 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 23 | The report showed that there were between 27,000,000 and 35,000,000 blind people in the world , over 90 per cent of whom lived in the developing world , mostly in rural areas . |
| 24 | They were to have three children ; Will junior , Gladys ( both of whom went on the stage ) , and Joan . |
| 25 | Despite relegation to the Third Division the club kept a playing staff of thirty-eight , twenty-five of whom came from the Barnsley area and were almost all miners or the sons of miners . |
| 26 | One other noteworthy source of support to franchise bidders , bringing resources less of money than talent ( though they often acquired shareholdings later ) were the experienced broadcasters , many of whom came from the BBC ( inevitably , in 1955 ) . |
| 27 | Others put the current figure for the Roman Catholics alone at about 1,500,000 , the majority of whom came from the Hungarian and German minorities . |
| 28 | Governments and organizations such as the European Communities ( EC ) and the Council of Europe sought steps to contain both the influx of migrants , many of whom came from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and the rise of racist sentiment . |
| 29 | The long pallid hospital morning passed with interruptions from the nursing , cleaning , and auxiliary stall , all of whom gravitated to the bed , where they were received by the nice-looking Mr Blake , who was in terrible pain , with grave correctness . |
| 30 | This ‘ poaching ’ by headhunters — criticised so often by employers on the receiving end — is recognised as a great facility by experienced users of search , one of whom wrote of the value of search consultants in ‘ winkling out talent which may not respond to advertisements ’ . |