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

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31 Us v Roveres got about 1 min
32 We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans .
33 We got about twenty minutes away from the house and the phone starts ringing
34 So I got about twenty records , ten packets of tea , Tropic of Cancer and On the Road , and the plays of Tennessee Williams , and off I went to live with Eva .
35 We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one .
36 And he got about 30 inquiries a day .
37 Now the mix-up we had yesterday , er on a lot of aggro when I got about this dust extract system one line three .
38 You got about seven hours tonight I 'll tell you about it .
39 These usually arose through personal contact :
40 They were considered so remarkable that many people , biologists among them , were unable to believe that they arose through natural selection .
41 Episcopal elections were not always peaceful , especially if tension arose between influential families or groups .
42 Disputes often arose between various parishes and during the reign of Henry VIII there was a dispute between Henry Johnson , Vicar of Halling 1534–45 and John Wildbore Master of Strood hospital , concerning the proportion of tithes each should receive .
43 For England and Scotland , it was decided that the agency for purchasing development land should be local government ( thus avoiding the inter-agency conflict situation which arose between local authorities and the Land Commission ) .
44 In 1988 , disputes arose between British shipowners , who proposed to introduce changes to existing terms and conditions of work for their employees , and the National Union of Seamen .
45 Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal .
46 Words that are longer than ten characters are shown in inverse video and then percentaged for that sentence .
47 The two met through mutual friends four years ago , but it was only in March when they decided to get married .
48 After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers .
49 I remember once thinking my mother was stark raving bonkers as she regaled me with a tale of the time she scrimped for six months to buy a pair of elbow length , white kid evening gloves , which set her back the equivalent of two weeks ' wages .
50 We fought as one nation during the war and of course those Englishmen here today old enough to remember the period will recall , I 'm sure , the young American G Is who were part of our community .
51 Thus containment can effect rather than defeat change ( and this does not presuppose the desirability or otherwise of that change ; it might be reaction or progress or , as in this play , complex elements of both with each differently appropriated for different audience positions ) .
52 In the meantime she applied for other jobs too , but it was the one with G Vasey Ltd that she wanted .
53 In March 1886 Joseph Chamberlain , as President of the Local Government Board , responded by issuing a circular to local authorities urging them to schedule necessary public works for periods of depression , and to co-operate with the Poor Law by providing paid , non-pauperizing work for those who applied for poor relief due to temporary unemployment .
54 It is rather like something that I used to do as a young groundsman coming up through the ranks , when I applied for vacant jobs all over the place , the bigger and more prestigious the place the better , and more often than not without the slightest intention of taking the job if it had been offered !
55 I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job .
56 And I applied for that job , and I got it .
57 Tower Hamlets declined to make the repayment and Chetnik applied for judicial review of the adverse decision , unsuccessfully at first instance but successfully in the Court of Appeal and in your Lordships ' House .
58 They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession .
59 By notice of motion dated 13 November 1990 Mr. Pegg applied for judicial review of those decisions but on 18 January the Divisional Court ( Mann L.J .
60 By notice of motion dated 23 March 1990 Mr. Pierson applied for judicial review of that decision but on 18 January 1991 the Divisional Court ( Mann L.J .
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