Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Indeed , he was selected to carry up the bill of settlement to the Lords , and in 1702 piloted through Parliament a measure to attaint the pretender .
2 advertise for birth parents
3 Some versions of traps have a capped connector on the side , for connecting an overflow assembly , which can be unscrewed for cleaning .
4 Kate Spencer-Nairn has been in wheelchair for eight years since her treatment at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford.In a High Court damages case against Oxfordshire Health Authority , she 's claimed that her spine was n't properly shielded during radiation treatment for Hodgkin 's Disease .
5 After a year or so of disappointment , my Dad gently explained about air waves , and I reasoned that if Dick Barton could send his voice through the air waves , God certainly could .
6 Prof Eno took us aside and explained about mummy rabbits and daddy rabbits .
7 My solicitor and barrister came and saw me , and explained about parole and remission , and told me there was no point in appealing .
8 Of course some terms may be difficult to categorize as stop or non-stop .
9 Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure .
10 In his memoir of the 1960s Ali records how , following the review , Goodwin rang him , they met for lunch , and the literary agent explained that he wanted to start the new paper .
11 Representatives of the government of Papua New Guinea ( PNG ) and the secessionist Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) met for peace talks in Honiara , the capital of the Solomon Islands , on Jan. 22 .
12 On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia .
13 If you feel constantly anxious and frightened about food , if you can not take pleasure in eating or in your body , if you know deep down that something is wrong , then it is irrelevant what you weigh or whether your immediate health is at risk ; you should take yourself and your feelings seriously , and look for help .
14 ‘ Extending the range of visits to library and related establishments beyond the London area to which we are limited through lack of funds ’ …
15 One view central to the lawyer/economist is that , in a world where , on the one hand , resources ( all of which have alternative uses ) are limited through scarcity and where on the other hand , there exists the insatiable human desire to consume those resources , then inevitably , trade-offs and choices must somehow be made .
16 Walker , 52 who leaves widow and two children , had been out with his brother Graham when the pair got off route on steep , loose ground .
17 And do n't you recall the ribbing you got off Father when you were fifteen and were caught in there with a girl … or was it a woman ?
18 Somehow or other , the vicar got off stage , and disappeared behind the altar , perhaps off to hurl himself into the flames that would shortly be consuming Donald .
19 ‘ Our family got off light altogether , ’ Mrs Lennox said .
20 ‘ But you still got off cocaine ?
21 just talk to them , just so short staffed , I do n't know when Jim last got off duty on time
22 I thought I used to I used to say to her sometimes I 'll have to go off story .
23 BARNSLEY trainer Steve Norton ca n't wait to go off talent-hunting to America again in a fortnight 's time .
24 This gave excitement , the opportunity to go off duty early or at least to return to the warmth and relative conviviality of the police station , as well as prestige …
25 I was talking to this other lad across the road — we were due to go off duty at two and we were just hanging about before making our way down to the station — there was no relief for us on that shift .
26 " Always glad to see you , of course , though I must say that I 'd hoped to go off duty without any more trouble .
27 911 is the number you would dial for emergency in America hence the name of the program .
28 A car manufacturer does not design for failure because he believes that his cars will not fail .
29 In Ayr , the second most marginal seat in the United Kingdom , Phil Gallie , the successor to George Younger , held on by 85 votes seeing off Labour who were thought certain to seize the seat .
30 It was all wrong and back to front , but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage .
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