Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender . |
| 2 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 3 | In his memoir of the 1960s Ali records how , following the review , Goodwin rang him , they met for lunch , and the literary agent explained that he wanted to start the new paper . |
| 4 | Representatives of the government of Papua New Guinea ( PNG ) and the secessionist Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) met for peace talks in Honiara , the capital of the Solomon Islands , on Jan. 22 . |
| 5 | On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia . |
| 6 | Walker , 52 who leaves widow and two children , had been out with his brother Graham when the pair got off route on steep , loose ground . |
| 7 | And do n't you recall the ribbing you got off Father when you were fifteen and were caught in there with a girl … or was it a woman ? |
| 8 | Somehow or other , the vicar got off stage , and disappeared behind the altar , perhaps off to hurl himself into the flames that would shortly be consuming Donald . |
| 9 | ‘ Our family got off light altogether , ’ Mrs Lennox said . |
| 10 | ‘ But you still got off cocaine ? |
| 11 | just talk to them , just so short staffed , I do n't know when Jim last got off duty on time |
| 12 | It was all wrong and back to front , but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage . |
| 13 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 14 | In May Maureen registered for war work and was directed to a clerical job in an office near Sarah 's . |
| 15 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 16 | Eastern Airlines , the sixth-largest airline in the USA , also registered for Chapter 11 protection on Jan. 18 , and all its aircraft were grounded pending a possible sale . |
| 17 | The doughmen could tell by the feel of the dough , and by the sound that it made during mixing , if it was too dry or too wet , and add small amounts of required ingredients to compensate . |
| 18 | It lies within an area designated as planning permission since nineteen sixty four . |
| 19 | In Forres that morning , Johnson and Boswell argued about evil . |
| 20 | The volume of the utterance may be loud to express anger or whispered for secrecy . |
| 21 | I think that 's why I got through life as well as I did . |
| 22 | I thought he said he got through book one but is there some stuff in it he does n't understand yet ? |
| 23 | The problem of working out how adaptations arose through evolution was too complex to be combined with detailed study of how those adaptations worked in the present . |
| 24 | The accused would not be present , and misunderstandings sometimes arose between judge and counsel , or between counsel and client , resulting in the accused often receiving a sentence which they thought they had not bargained for . |
| 25 | Considerable differences later arose between Hall and Pennethorne as to what was agreed at their meetings about the larger scheme . |
| 26 | Usually , that duty was clear cut : it meant absolute obedience to her husband , and a rigid negation of her own wishes ; but there were occasions when a conflict of loyalty arose between husband and conscience , and the decision to visit her twin sister had been one of them . |
| 27 | It also meant that the police were immediately involved when serious disputes arose between labour and employers . |
| 28 | In fact the other day I just could n't face yet another day of taunts , kicks and bag-snatching so I skived off school . |
| 29 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 30 | They met through work and had an affair for five months until Mike , who was divorced , suggested Marianne should leave her husband . |