Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fought as a banneret in the first Welsh war of 1277–8 , visited Gascony and Paris on Edward 's business in 1278–9 , and fought again in the second Welsh war of 1282–3 . |
| 2 | He applied for a post in the service of the archduke : but Ferdinand was advised by his mother not to burden himself with such ‘ useless creatures who travel around all over the place , like beggars ’ . |
| 3 | After reading a letter about youths and unemployment , the gist of which was their unwillingness to work , I was incensed by the statement , ‘ Even if they applied for a job in the catering industry , it would be something ’ . |
| 4 | He was not accepted into the department of meteorology but registered as a student in the department of mathematics , where he wrote a doctoral thesis on ‘ The Theory of Development in Dynamical Meteorology ’ . |
| 5 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
| 6 | I believe that Unesco got the idea when he saw that TV series about some people.who lived for a year in a simulated stone-age Village , cut off from the world . |
| 7 | Finally we asked for a change in the wording of supplementary benefit law which would abolish the term ‘ cohabitation ’ , with its sexual connotations , and substitute what seemed the more decent and objective phrase , ‘ living together as husband and wife ’ . |
| 8 | The main union involved , the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , asked for a delay in the issue of the notices until a meeting of the workforce today , when it is understood the company plan will again be put to the workforce . |
| 9 | After the previous Armed Forces minister , Archie Hamilton , was replaced by Mr Hanley , Mr Brandreth asked for a meeting in the hope that a change of minister might mean a change of heart over the pay office . |
| 10 | By similar arrangement with the CPR next year I travelled to Montreal and , not knowing the city , asked for a room in the CPR hotel which turned out to be the St. Viger . |
| 11 | Vern made for a bench in a concrete space with trees and shrubs scattered around in pots , and sat down . |
| 12 | It provided for a cut in the top rate of income tax from 68 to 52 per cent , a cut in corporation tax from 50 to 35 per cent ( later amended to 40 per cent ) , and a range of cuts in excise duties on consumer goods . |
| 13 | One night when his parents were out David returned to the scene ; as expected everything was quiet not even a walker with a dog was passing through , David cautiously approached the old hut , he peered through a crack in the battens before going round to the door which to his surprise was ajar . |
| 14 | Hurrying to the window , he peered through a tear in the curtains just in time to see the Peugeot drive off , heading towards the city . |
| 15 | It is not , however , so extensive as is usual in courses which are ( unlike this one ) designed as a stage in the professional preparation of a teacher . |
| 16 | Or perhaps their own hair , waxed solid and stained , coiled through a hole in the cap . |
| 17 | On security issues Meckel maintained during a debate in the Volkskammer ( unicameral parliament ) on April 26 that membership of NATO was not the government 's aim , and would be conditional upon a change in the structures of the Western Alliance . |
| 18 | He was caught in a massive police hunt launched after the four fled through a hole in a fence around the jail playing field . |
| 19 | My heart and spirits sank like a stone in a lake . |
| 20 | Politically , he often behaved like a bull in a china shop . |
| 21 | And her face broke and she said , ‘ Oh Wyn , oh Wyn ’ , and he held her in his arms , and from where I crouched in the elbow of the stairs I saw his face and it was the face of the fox that Hywel killed , and the face of the stoat that he beat with a stick in the hen-yard , and the face of the dog that savaged the ewes . |
| 22 | Swearing as her dead left hand crashed into a chair in the dark , Jezrael made her way across the room , sat down facing him . |
| 23 | John D. Rockefeller rose from a clerk in a commission merchant 's house to become one of the world 's richest men . |
| 24 | When she got back to the kitchen , Finn was reading an old newspaper , seated on the table and eating dry chunks of bread gouged from a loaf in the crumb of which his fingers had left grey prints . |
| 25 | They journeyed through the Andes , the rocky landscape repelling the staff until it sank in a valley in the centre of the earth . |
| 26 | They fetched a lightly padded patchwork quilt from the Centaur Room , a pink candlewick from the Room Without a Name , two of white cotton from the Room of Astonishment and a counterpane of heavy yellow satin they found in a cupboard in the Pincushion Room . |
| 27 | They moved to a house in the same quiet village , and were just as happy . |
| 28 | Once they were a couple of miles from the Manor , where the woods were at their most impenetrable , she reined in Moonbeam and drew to a halt in a little glade . |
| 29 | He leaned forward , saying something to Jesus , and seconds later the car drew to a halt in a lay-by . |
| 30 | It rose to a peak in the latter years of the nineteenth century , the last survivor of ‘ crisis ’ mortality . |