Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people here would be very worried if information about them turned up in Greece , or in other European Community countries , based upon suspicion . |
| 2 | ‘ But after what went on in the first leg , I hope we get a referee who will be strong enough to stamp out any foul play . |
| 3 | Whereas make focusses on the mere producing of an effect , get evokes something which precedes the effect — prolonged efforts in ( 170b ) , persuasion winning out over unwillingness in ( 171b ) — and so to must be used before the infinitive to represent the latter 's event as a result coming after what led up to it . |
| 4 | Around him clustered lively and innovatory young administrators , many of whom went on to be Directors of Education themselves — including Alan Chorlton , who spoke to me on the stairs after being totally silent throughout my Banbury interview . |
| 5 | In the course of ten years , some fifty students were trained , about half of whom went on to ordination and a few of the others were ordained after my time . |
| 6 | It was not a well-attended affair — perhaps fifteen people , mainly old women , at the church , few of whom came on to the cemetery . |
| 7 | Two recent cases of young Arabs dying while in police custody ( one of whom fell out of a window while being interrogated ) have added to this impression . |
| 8 | which I think there were four competitors , one of whom got through to the district final and eventually to the national final that John is going to on Saturday . |
| 9 | To make sure that these components met the quality standards needed by the main plant , the company despatched , at its own expense , what they described to us with only mild exaggeration as ‘ a regiment of engineers ’ from Detroit , some of whom stayed down in Brazil for months advising the subcontractors on how to meet the company 's standards . |
| 10 | At least forty-eight loyalists were arrested , two of whom turned out to be full-time members of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 11 | Ralph also heard and both of them rushed over to rows and rows of clothes rails , all knocked down . |
| 12 | Now the plays are dying and Father 's got the memory of them locked up in his head and no one to pass them to . |
| 13 | Two of them looked down at me . |
| 14 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 15 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 16 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 17 | Out of the school , how many of them got in at Sound of Music out of those hundred kids ? |
| 18 | But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park . |
| 19 | Few of them got back to their own country . |
| 20 | I saw Changez 's eyes fall caressingly on his wife 's form and then rest on his prostitute 's grooving hips as the two of them got down to Martha Reeves and the Vandellas . |
| 21 | Four of them hung on to her . |
| 22 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 23 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 24 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 25 | Nkrumah dealt with the rebels by expelling 81 CPP members ; many of them drifted over to the NPP . |
| 26 | The lectures in 1871 were from E. J. Reed ( chief constructor of the navy ) on 10 February , on the stability of ironclads following the loss of HMS Captain ; then on 3 March Captain Noble , FRS , late of the Royal Artillery , reported on experiments on the power of gunpowder , some of them carried out with William Armstrong , the armaments manufacturer ; and on 12 May Colonel Drummond Jervois of the Royal Engineers spoke on the defence policy of Great Britain . |
| 27 | ‘ Like Bogart , Steve brought himself to each part he played and something of each of them rubbed off on his personality . |
| 28 | Then came more accidents — we seemed to have a large number of accidents in the 1950s and early 1960s and many of them finished up as public inquiries . |
| 29 | The rest of them wriggled down in their seats , not wanting to be seen , not daring to say anything . |
| 30 | When a group of them walked up to a bar , they would reach into their clothes , and the last one to catch a louse had to buy . |