Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although flying is officially banned within a radius of one nautical mile and below 2,000 feet around the station , Dr Ray Seymour , a research physicist from Somerset County Council , produced Ministry of Defence figures which showed that roughly 2,400 flights each year from the nearby Yeovilton air base pass over or adjacent to Hinkley Point . |
| 2 | A member of the Spooner family , connected to Wilberforce by his marriage to Barbara Spooner , became Archdeacon of Coventry with responsibility for Birmingham and had close links to the evangelical Calthorpes , landowners and philanthropists in the city . |
| 3 | A Tractarian , whose work for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel attracted national attention , he became archdeacon of Dorset in 1862 but resigned , through ill health , nine months later . |
| 4 | Malaysia sought support for its initiative in various forums and in November 1971 succeeded in gaining a cautious endorsement for it from ASEAN in the form of a declaration issued by a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Kuala Lumpur . |
| 5 | Baker also sought support for the USA 's opposition to a Malaysian proposal for an East Asian trade grouping which excluded the USA [ see p. 38535 ] . |
| 6 | The HCIMA sought support from all of the relevant industry and education groupings to determine whether this would be supported by all concerned . |
| 7 | But the Euro-sceptics got support from an unexpected source on Monday evening . |
| 8 | Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact . |
| 9 | I got support from my sister , but I did miss them . |
| 10 | I also got support from er Labour Labour Party in Leith who sent down two volunteers to help me . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean if I got kind of aroused right now , I should n't fight it or flounder , or try to control it , but just be it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There are some really good women writers around at the moment ; Shawn Colvin 's excellent , and so 's a woman called Ferron , although she got kind of pigeonholed into ‘ women 's music ’ , and I think that 's limited her audience . |
| 13 | sort of got kind of an odd relationship between the friends |
| 14 | I 'll bet it got kind of cosy at night ! |
| 15 | BONG : Then foreign correspondent Brent Sadler , 41 , who quit ITN for CNN at Christmas , split with his second wife . |
| 16 | She got the ceiling decorated and made improvements to the entrance to make it more welcoming . |
| 17 | The other species , more technologically adept , sought sanctuary for their decaying bodies by encasing them in survival suits . |
| 18 | After a few hundred yards , he sought sanctuary in a nearby house . |
| 19 | This incident proved the danger to Special Forces when they sought sanctuary in a neutral country , for Graham Hayes was shot in a Paris prison in the summer of 1943 . |
| 20 | Later thousands of Kurdish refugees sought sanctuary in Turkey and Iran . |
| 21 | It is a familiar case of one of the basic contradictions of modern capitalism , in which increasingly socialized forms of production are defined and limited by privately appropriated forms of ownership and control . |
| 22 | On Viola 's approach down the hall , Hilda turned up the gas and made preparation for a hasty departure , but this , it seemed , was not the idea . |
| 23 | A second Expeditionary Force was despatched across the Channel to France , but it WAS forced to return to Britain almost immediately because the French government asked Germany for an armistice , on 17th . |
| 24 | However in line with KPMG publicised policies on corporate finance services activities , MAS partners ( along with other partners ) should not commit either themselves or the firm to sponsor issues . |
| 25 | ‘ Did your grandfather have any favourite hymns ? ’ the priest asked William before the service . |
| 26 | His career had gone into an ignominious period following his deposition and he had spent time in prison in Kansas , fought bulls in Barcelona , performed stunts in circuses , played ‘ Othello ’ across the country and even boxed all-comers in exhibitions at the age of 68 years . |
| 27 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 28 | And so me brother and I , who was a twin , were put into the choir as probationers , like today 's police force , and after twelve months we 'd passed all the necessary tests for the vicar and became chororists with the choir and graduated through it . |
| 29 | His defects were that he lacked subtlety , was vehemently anti-communist to the point where any unrest or dissent might be regarded as a sign of communist activity , and that he lacked preparation for the tasks he faced . |
| 30 | ‘ Well ? ’ asked Morse at long last . |