Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halfway round the ring when he asked for little more collection she offered no resistance and they moved as one into an easy working trot rising . |
| 2 | At my urging , he asked for some more photographs as I was keen on the idea of this spotlessly clean , ruthlessly attractive family in their Nordic pine kitchen . |
| 3 | They passed through several more doors . |
| 4 | Against that consider the following despicable episode which occurred during that same visit . |
| 5 | Yet when you bumped into that same person , they would always talk about him in the most loving way . ’ |
| 6 | Sheldon Krimsky 's book stems from this study , but in the light of the other books devoted to this same goal that have appeared over the past five years , it is worth considering what Genetic Alchemy adds to previous efforts . |
| 7 | Reacting to him physically , just as she used to all those years ago . |
| 8 | And if if this was covered up here I E this this black dot was say made white let's say , we 'd only have two matching and if that was made white we 'd have one and then if we changed at all that top row we 'd have zero matching . |
| 9 | How on earth I came through all those perils unscathed , unarrested , is one of the miracles of my early life . |
| 10 | But I do n't know how it was , but it came about that this confiscation business was dropped just as soon as we Labour got into power . |
| 11 | Harbour improvements continued alongside the thriving coastal trade , but the biggest investment necessarily came in those few ports which dominated overseas trade . |
| 12 | If he held his own with other boys in the struggle for power he could hardly help behaving in ways which were unlikely to be lovable — a fact which assumed a definite importance when the only hope of affection came from those same boys . |
| 13 | And that was hid for many many years it had generations . |
| 14 | ‘ Better if they paid for some more staff . |
| 15 | Vinyl required greater temperatures in the press , and the molten material flowed with much less viscosity . |
| 16 | All this , of course , happened in much less time than it takes to explain . |
| 17 | The eye-witness accounts of what happened in those few minutes naturally vary in many details , but one of the most reliable descriptions of the actual eruption of the cloud was that of Monsieur Roger Arnoux , a member of the Astronomical Society of France , who was observing from a vantage point well above and away from the town . |
| 18 | Furthermore , the findings conflicted in that some studies did not show an age related decline in acid secretion . |
| 19 | What happened to all these girlfriends and this person that had phoned up on Stephen phoned up er it 's Wednesday right , and Stephen phoned up Tuesday and twenty five to eleven and says can I talk to Stephen , says hang on a minute who is it ? |
| 20 | so what happened to all this Yeltsin thing right , has has it been so much build up , speculation of the West , you say thirty years of build up on our part is being wasted , we 've really got nothing to fear of the Russians ? |
| 21 | What happened to all those people concerned about the continuing destruction of our countryside , the increasing level of traffic , noise , pollution . |
| 22 | And Lucier followed with that same loping , economical , elegant stride , and now as grey-haired , too , as a wolf . |
| 23 | The contras , demoralized beyond any more fighting resumed their preferred occupation of lounging in the camps in Honduras , and in June 1990 the war was officially ended . |
| 24 | She do n't keep her house up , she goes I 'm not gon na like get old , grey and old in a house surrounded by all these antiques that like all these memorabilia around me she said I 'm just gon na go out and see the world . |
| 25 | Staring at her , as though trying to make up his mind , he asked in that same flat , hard tone , ‘ Not blackmail ? ’ |
| 26 | Now Darwin got from this this idea that somehow sudden things are miraculous , are natural , erm but admittedly they may happen but I mean there is a miraculous element about sudden things , whereas things that are natural should happen gradually , and he retained this view in spite of changing his ideas about all sorts of other things , and let us now see why the gradualism was so important a component of his theory of evolution . |
| 27 | He survived about half that time before Ambrose got him , finishing with 8 for 45 ; all out 191 meant a win by 164 runs . |
| 28 | She called for much more effort to be made to provide an aesthetic environment where some sense of personal identity and dignity is preserved . |
| 29 | How they coped with all that armour … |
| 30 | In Hamburg and elsewhere I talked to several former U-boat captains and instead of the brash abrasive characters I had expected , I found them on the whole to be men of sensibility and humour . |