Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty-seven veterans of the summer campaign to Argentina ( minus centre Christian Coeurville who is involved in exams ) , along with the ‘ tired trio ’ — Sella , Mesnel and LaFond — and the ‘ banned trio ’ of Gimbert , Benazzi and Roumat , and Sebastian Conchy ( the Begles and French students flanker ) met for a squad session in Leon in South West France . |
| 2 | In the first week of January 1979 , President Giscard d'Estaing expounded his view when he met for a summit conference with Jimmy Carter , Hemut Schmidt , the West German chancellor , and James Callaghan , the British prime minister , on the French West Indian island of Guadeloupe . |
| 3 | Two years ago the 41year-old received a similar amount when his former teams of Liverpool and Arsenal met for a testimonial match . |
| 4 | you see , so er anyway when we got off the phone Mike said yeah but what about bloody power you see |
| 5 | I got off the Air India jet spitting betel nut and nursing a swollen hand . |
| 6 | ‘ I saw you there when I got off the airport bus . ’ |
| 7 | But the older men — forty and upwards — they got off the side walk and paced up and down the road — deferential . |
| 8 | Even more gripping than this documentary feature is Apted 's fictional movie based on the same incident , Thunderheart , a tight , concentrated political drama which the director got off the ground thanks to the backing of Robert De Niro . |
| 9 | The nursing staff said she got off the delivery table herself , and could not understand why she was ordered back to bed . |
| 10 | UNION leaders called for High Street banks to be taxed on the £500 million profit they made during the sterling crisis . |
| 11 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 12 | Two years ago I got through the guilt obstacle . |
| 13 | and I just got through the traffic lights first thing in the morning and there was two light |
| 14 | Time- asymmetry thus implies that while the terrain was undergoing upheaval new types of animal arose through a feedback process , because they needed the land for further food , and because the waxing and waning ice-ages together with ( or as a result of ) the early breakup and reformation of the continents often had major and fatal consequences for marine and land faunas . |
| 15 | Numerous disputes arose between the Forest officers and the owners of lands and woods they had re-afforested . |
| 16 | I tried several places before they tumbled through the ballroom doors . |
| 17 | ‘ If it 's not his jokes , he is constantly relating how he fought as a moss trooper on the northern march . ’ |
| 18 | This Meeting consider that the sum appropriated for the Steam Boat last year would be best disposed of by carrying on works of utility to the Island … " |
| 19 | When they acquired holes he applied for a clothing grant . |
| 20 | MSF applied for a possession order , which was postponed pending the outcome of the application for an order for sale . |
| 21 | A woman who caused a row when she applied for a teaching job under a false identity has now joined the debate over children 's reading . |
| 22 | Annis Garfield , caused a major row 2 years ago when she applied for a teaching post under a false name and was offered an interview , despite her application being littered with spelling mistakes . |
| 23 | He alleged that inquiry officers had lied about seeing a flickering light in a bedroom window of his home when they applied for a search warrant . |
| 24 | I applied for a research fellowship at Gonville and Caius College ( pronounced Keys ) . |
| 25 | Encouraged by Drew , Daisy applied for a Pony Club scholarship for Perdita , and they were duly summoned to Kirtlington to meet the Committee in early July . |
| 26 | By the time Bomberg applied for a war artist 's commission in 1939 he was a sadly neglected figure . |
| 27 | When she followed the instructions and applied for a job interview she was told : ‘ Sorry , we are only recruiting staff from Ireland . ’ |
| 28 | Worktwice , the rival firm which now has the fax number , say it merely applied for the fax number because it was told it had become available and are confident British Telecom acted in a right and proper manner . |
| 29 | It was a big disappointment to me that when I applied for the news editor 's job , I did n't get it . |
| 30 | It would be a mistake , however , to dismiss this aspect of the Liberal reform programme as being of no legislative or historical significance , at least in so far as the preceding details have revealed that the different schemes were the result of much thought and argument on the part of a number of interest groups , each of which cared about the transition process , believing it to be critical for the economic and moral welfare of working-class youth . |