Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Basquiat estate is after twenty or so paintings , which Baghoomian says he sold for cash immediately after Basquiat 's death . |
| 2 | Because we , we had this when , when we carried out a political fund ballot erm and we asked for time off for stewards to go and talk to members and we asked for time off for a seminar , for a one day seminar . |
| 3 | Because we , we had this when , when we carried out a political fund ballot erm and we asked for time off for stewards to go and talk to members and we asked for time off for a seminar , for a one day seminar . |
| 4 | ‘ First , are we to accept that a man waded through water up to his neck to tie a noose to hang himself ? |
| 5 | Heavy and hoping , Lee moved through air inland towards the building she was now to walk away from . |
| 6 | and erm the reorganizing of erm secondary education which all stemmed of course really from the nineteen forty four Act |
| 7 | Totten , peeved at being dropped to the bench , bounced into action late on too to set up the masterpiece . |
| 8 | Maxim turned his red-rimmed eyes at George winced with pain even at the feeble car light and shut them again . |
| 9 | The decree , which entered into force later in June , entitled Albanian citizens in principle to a passport for travelling abroad and re-entering the country , and made it possible for visitors to obtain entry visas at crossing points on the Albanian border . |
| 10 | PEOPLE fled in terror yesterday as a crashed petrol tanker exploded in a fireball , sending 7,000 gallons of blazing fuel roaring up the street . |
| 11 | It 's er unfortunately the case that relations between the partners broke down and this led in due course to proceedings being commenced by the plaintiffs against the defendant in relation to the dissolution of the partners , those proceedings were commenced in nineteen eighty nine , , er in the High Court Chancery Division , there were a number of issues raised in the litigation , one of the matters was a preliminary issue , er concerning the terms of the partnership and that came before er Mr Justice on the eighteenth of February nineteen ninety one , whereby he found in favour effectively of the defendant on that preliminary issue er the plaintiffs it seems were then claiming that partnership , the partnership at will , but Mr Justice held that they were part of the terms of the particular er partnership deed , so the defendants succeeded on that issue , the trial of the action then followed on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one and er Mr Justice made an order for dissolution of the partnership , he then give various directions for accountant enquiries concerning the partnership and he made orders for payments of costs , now the orders for costs were this , that effectively the defendant was entitled to some costs of the preliminary issue and that the plaintiffs were entitled to costs of the er ma if I may put it this way , the main action , and there was then the provision for , set off for the defendant 's costs against the costs ordered to be paid by the defendant , perfectly normal form of order . |
| 12 | He rose to power deep in the Badlands where his tribe , the Ironclaws , held the fortress known as the Iron Rock . |
| 13 | TERRY Denison may quit as chief coach after Britain 's swimmers sank without trace here in Barcelona . |
| 14 | It was occupied by the Fry family — the eldest son was Sergeant Major of St. Martin 's Church Lads Brigade who used to camp out in bell tents at Shady Bower during the summer months . |
| 15 | I was obsessed with being flat-chested and unglamorous and I used to harp on about how he must be hankering for someone more glamorous . ’ |
| 16 | I tried to inch away from him but there was n't another seat to move to . |
| 17 | I did two rabbit sculptures for an exhibition in Yorkshire made of cow much on a metal frame . |
| 18 | A DISTRESSED father appealed for help yesterday in finding the ‘ animals ’ who had gunned down his daughter and her husband . |
| 19 | They stirred into life just before half-time , when Mickey Lewis came as close as anyone could to scoring |
| 20 | The RFC machines — mainly BE2s , Bleriots and Henri Farmans — operated individually and came under attack not by enemy aircraft but by artillery , and even by rifle fire from their own troops . |
| 21 | President François Mitterrand came under attack both from the opposition and from within his own Socialist Party ( PS ) early in September for his ambivalent initial reaction to the Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev ( although he had swiftly reversed this impression in a television appearance two days later ) . |
| 22 | Crews came under attack twice in Bootle and once in Kirkby . |
| 23 | THE traditional British breakfast of eggs , bacon and bangers came under attack yesterday on health grounds . |
| 24 | PLANNERS came under attack yesterday for allegedly being inconsistent in the way they deal with applications . |
| 25 | During 1990-91 the question of Irish neutrality came under discussion both in connection with the possible extension of EC competence to cover defence issues [ see p. 38022 ] and during the Gulf crisis , after the government announcement on Jan. 14 , 1991 , that it would allow US planes to refuel at Shannon airport en route for the Gulf [ see p. 37942 ] . |
| 26 | UMPIRE Steve Bucknor came under fire yesterday for refusing to view a TV replay in a run-out incident which could have a bearing on the second Test between South Africa and India . |
| 27 | However , the TCCB itself came under fire yesterday for allowing a similar attack by former England captain David Gower on India 's bowlers to be published in a new book — Gower : The Autobiography . |
| 28 | Once , when I was hand-feeding peanuts to six badgers at a sett in the east of England that had been watched and provisioned with food regularly for more than 30 years , the badgers were scared off merely by a distant snapping twig and the far-off murmur of voices . |
| 29 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 30 | They came into existence along with democracy — with the development of parliaments and elections — after the American and French Revolutions , and were at first ‘ parties of notables ’ , that is to say , relatively small electoral committees composed of individuals who had prestige and wealth in their own constituency or electoral district . |