Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friction led to furious rows and the rows led to Willy demanding that he should be allowed to take a room where he could look after himself . |
| 2 | The queen asked how the groups got on coming from so many different backgrounds and cultures , and if they were making any new recruits . |
| 3 | In the seventeenth century none of the Russian peasants in any of the regions of mass settlement lived without fear . |
| 4 | Dan realised with growing dismay that at forty-six he was qualified for nothing . |
| 5 | As we have seen , in the past false biological views led to false reasoning . |
| 6 | His fierce anti-Common Market views led to a challenge to his candidacy for the South Edinburgh seat in 1973 which he successfully fought off . |
| 7 | As the final notes quivered into silence and he left the stage to tumultuous applause , she rose to her feet in spontaneous acclaim for his effort . |
| 8 | In addition to the services of every kind asked by the voters , effective management would also involve the politician in substantial expenses , for any major political figure owed it to his position in society to give generously for any public concern . |
| 9 | Moreover , imbalances arose within the economy as a whole , in particular between consumption goods and capital goods . |
| 10 | put the contrary view in the form of a dilemma when he said : ‘ Either they were performing this public duty in giving the protection asked for , in which case I think they can not charge , or , which no one suggests , they were at the request of an individual doing something which it was not their duty to do , in which case it seems to me both public policy and section 10 of the County Police Act 1839 , make the contract illegal and void . ’ |
| 11 | The split led to Sankara 's assassination in October 1987 . |
| 12 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |
| 13 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 14 | The British authorities argued at the time that the way to tackle this problem of falling competitiveness , far from being to allow the pound to devalue , was to maintain a rigid exchange rate for sterling and so through the resulting high interest rates and tight money ‘ to squeeze inflation out of the system ’ . |
| 15 | VETERAN rocker Rod Stewart got to grips with fatherhood at last yesterday . |
| 16 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 17 | I 've had a few copies made to be on the safe side : solicitors , banks … you know . |
| 18 | The East German won , the Frenchman came second and Allan qualified in third place . |
| 19 | He felt that such ‘ impersonal ’ coverage amounted to a propaganda victory for the IRA . |
| 20 | Fascinated Athelstan watched the strange hand signs which Philippa translated for him . |
| 21 | The settlement does not , however , protect E&Y from civil suits filed by former investors in S&Ls — the $63m it paid in connection with Lincoln arose from a civil suit . |
| 22 | Spontaneity was given organised form on 11 October when antislavery delegates from Bath , Bristol , Exeter , Gloucester , Taunton , Devizes and Westbury met at Bath and resolved to work for the end of apprenticeship by August 1838 . |
| 23 | His ginger beard came round and his teeth gleamed for a second . |
| 24 | Fifty or sixty perfect , pointed teeth gleamed between his parted lips . |
| 25 | She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen . |
| 26 | Lally gasped and coughed , she even spat , her teeth gleamed against the mud . |
| 27 | SHEILA lived in a cottage on the rocky shelf of a mountain . |
| 28 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 29 | Tarn Howe glowed beneath an unsuitably blue sky . |
| 30 | I mean , me and Will met in Carter Lane … ’ |