Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might surmise that the separations John experienced between the ages of two and seven years resulted in the development of an internal blueprint predicting that close relationships were unlikely to be sustained , and cautioning against becoming involved with others . |
| 2 | To what extent were politicians responsible for the high unemployment which Britain experienced between the wars ? |
| 3 | Tom Slack 's sense of fun effectively camouflages the dramas and dangers he endured as a pilot , as an escaper and ultimately as a POW . |
| 4 | He wrote a book which we bought , all about the discrimination he endured as a Methodist living in Ireland . |
| 5 | In fact , working women were more independent and less likely to marry early ; and the real significance of this controversy was what it revealed about the ideological assumptions of ruling-class men . |
| 6 | ‘ Stan called me and we met for a chat at his home . |
| 7 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We met for a drink . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | FOUR months after attending a weekend course on team building and sales training , staff from Treasury and Capital Markets , Scotland met for a day-long follow-up session in the conference room at Drummond House . |
| 14 | The overnight snooze [ all of one-and-a-half hours ] on the ferry was hardly over when it was time to drive onto Reims , where crews from Oslo , Berlin and Edinburgh met for a deserved rest . |
| 15 | An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " . |
| 16 | US Secretary of State James Baker and Israel 's ambassador to the USA Zalman Shoval met for a third round of talks in Washington on Feb. 21 but failed to arrange a compromise agreement on the terms of Israel 's request for loan guarantees worth US$10,000 million to be used for the absorption of new Jewish immigrants . |
| 17 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 18 | Two years ago the 41year-old received a similar amount when his former teams of Liverpool and Arsenal met for a testimonial match . |
| 19 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 20 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 21 | On Wednesday 13 February , we met for the second time with pensions as the agenda item . |
| 22 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
| 23 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
| 24 | Why can I read you like a book , when we only met for the first time four days ago ? |
| 25 | It met for the first time on 25 February 1986 and includes representatives from the Departments of Transport , Environment , Employment , and Trade and Industry ; Kent County Council ; the district councils of ; elected members of Kent local authorities and Parliamentary constituencies ; Eurotunnel ; Transmanche Link ; and British Rail . |
| 26 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 27 | Such is the force of tradition that when the newly instituted Parliament of Northern Ireland met for the first time in 1921 , its first act was to claim these ‘ undoubted and ancient privileges ’ . |
| 28 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 29 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 30 | They all met for the first time on the show . |