Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Stan called me and we met for a chat at his home .
2 NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars .
3 Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America .
4 I got to , I got about a pound on me .
5 Damian asked during a lull in their lovemaking on the second day .
6 Twoflower hung on as best he could as Ninereeds swooped through a succession of caverns and soared around a spiral staircase that could easily have accommodated a retreating army .
7 Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans .
8 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 .
9 Lewis 's connection with Scotland in general ( he fought as an amateur during the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh ) and the city of Glasgow in particular may soon be strengthened beyond the use of a fax machine .
10 Without Coleman 's knowledge , and without consulting the DIA ( on this basis , they had no reason to do so ) , either Hurley or Dany Habib had subsequently used those papers — in particular , the copy they had taken of Coleman 's Thomas Leavy birth certificate — to obtain a passport for one of their own people in Egypt , thus cocking the trigger for a possible violation alert when Coleman also applied for a passport in that name two years later .
11 Not all the crew was impressed with the wild beauty however , although Dave Scadding , my number one really fell in love with Scotland , so much so that he applied for a transfer to Kirkwall on our return to Southampton .
12 He applied for a grant of land and this was sold to him for a nominal sum .
13 We applied for a grant from the National Heritage Memorial Fund on the basis that its support alone could save the church .
14 In the Federal Court in Sydney yesterday , a banking syndicate headed by HongkongBank Australia applied for a trustee to be appointed after Mr Bond , 53 , failed to repay about £110 million arising from a personal guarantee he gave on a loan to his former Greenvale nickel project .
15 The details of the case were outlined by prosecuting solicitor , Huw Evans , who applied for a remand in custody until next Monday .
16 At the suggestion of the Delta Commander he applied for a post at UNACO and was finally accepted six weeks later after a succession of exhaustive interviews .
17 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 ’ .
18 He applied for a patent for his design on 26 July 1907 .
19 In the 1650s Howard evidently also developed an interest in industrial practices , and on 27 October 1660 he applied for a patent for a new method of tanning , the subject of a printed broadsheet , Brief directions how to Tanne Leather according to a new Invention ( n.d . ) .
20 In 1678 he applied for a patent for a new way of processing flax , which may have been related to investigations of this topic made under the society 's auspices in the 1660s .
21 Connolly was sentenced to one day 's imprisonment , after which he applied for a summons against the labour master for alleged assault .
22 I applied for a place at the Methodist Institution training college in London — and have heard I have been accepted . ’
23 No because , I applied for a lot of jobs
24 It is also alleged under the name Garawand he applied for a loan of more than £40,000 to buy the house in Southfield Crescent , Stockton , where he was living .
25 And under the name of Garawand he also applied for a loan of £43,225 to buy the house in Norton , Stockton , in which he lived .
26 I applied for a job on Query and got it .
27 I applied for a job at Anglia as a news reporter .
28 His confidence grew and he applied for a job at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford upon Avon .
29 The act of conception , staring at a typewriter for much of 1985 in a flat in Notting Hill Gate so depressed me that I immediately thereafter applied for a job as doctor for Amoco , who were then exploring for oil near Morondava .
30 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 ’ .
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