Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wild ’ Charlie Mander , the British consul , and Sheriff Felipe Almodovar , the self-styled ‘ Law South of Tierra del Fuego , ’ met for talks in an attempt to reach a settlement , but tempers rose and shots were exchanged . |
| 2 | Khadafi and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak met for talks in February and June to discuss regional issues and ways of increasing co-operation in agriculture , industry , health and telecommunications . |
| 3 | Baker met for talks with a three-member Palestinian delegation led by Faisal al-Husseini , director of the East Jerusalem Institute of Arab Studies , on July 21 . |
| 4 | In December 1990 Chandra Shekhar met for talks with Simranjit Singh Mann , leader of one of the three main Akali Dal factions [ see p. 37915 ] . |
| 5 | Prime Minister John Major and Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen met for talks at 10 Downing Street today on next week 's EC summit in Copenhagen . |
| 6 | ‘ He could have done it beforehand when we met for drinks and everyone 's attention was on Mrs Figgis-Hewett , ’ said Angelina , albeit with a feeling of disloyalty to a fellow female . |
| 7 | If so were the figures I posted for corners etc totally false , or were we like ‘ Cobras with arthritis ’ again ? |
| 8 | Twenty years ago people argued about definitions but they did not really disagree about a system of values which centred the individual 's worth in a family context and saw counselling as the social worker 's core skill . |
| 9 | They argued about freedoms not in terms of immediate advantage , but in terms of absolute justice . |
| 10 | Yet other Douglas robber barons continued to indulge in their own intrigues against king and country , in the ‘ almost aimless treachery ’ , as Andrew Lang describes it , which ‘ endured for centuries from the reign of David II to that of James VI ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ The rest of the band we got through friends of friends on the Glasgow scene , ’ he said . |
| 12 | They got through customs . |
| 13 | Julian was fond of steaks : we got through jars of mustard . |
| 14 | Since their receptive fields are scattered all over the visual field the rabbit 's brain is kept well-informed about movements all around it . |
| 15 | Much of the indebtedness of these middle-income countries arose through borrowings in private sector capital markets , mainly the euro-currency markets , and although it was feared that the banks involved were seriously at risk it is becoming clear that rescheduling of debt by the banks with the debtor countries has been possible . |
| 16 | When disputes arose between nobles , or between lay and ecclesiastical landlords , each party would expect " justice " , meaning a settlement , often a compromise , that was acceptable to both parties and seemed fair to others of their rank and status . |
| 17 | By an Act of 1922 a pawnbroker could charge a ‘ valuation fee ’ of 1/2d for each 5s lent for pledges under £2 . |
| 18 | And , I applied for loads of jobs and nothing ever came back . |
| 19 | At the end of two years she applied for jobs with various banks and when I met her she had just been accepted as a trainee accounting technician . |
| 20 | If he cared about orphans he could find plenty of them over here . |
| 21 | The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake . |
| 22 | Chips with everything from the leathery slices of roast meat , through the squidgy fish cooked in cardboard batter to the limp arrangements of greenery that passed for salads . |
| 23 | Nobody who read the Bible could legitimately doubt that miracles had once occurred ; the question whether they still did so became for doubters a test of their faith . |
| 24 | It might help designers if a history of mismatches that arose during trials and the actions taken to correct them , was kept ; indeed we feel that some of the particular cases do lead to useful generalization . |
| 25 | ranging from geographic information systems to architectural systems , the first of about 300 Intergraph technical applications slated for Windows NT by the end of 1994 . |
| 26 | They met as contestants at a Mrs Moscow competition which Yelena won ; modelling contracts and divorce followed for both . |
| 27 | And now William was the last surviving friend of his childhood and they met as dissidents who have escaped the Gulag but left their roots behind and need each other to share the memories . |
| 28 | If the duty rate per degree of alcohol were raised for wines ( and beers ) and lowered for spirits , the standard rate for all alcoholic drinks , which would maintain the total tax take , would be much closer to the wine rate than the spirits rate . |
| 29 | They rode through Leighton , following the track which skirted the dark mass of Epping Forest and into Woodforde just as the church bell tolled for Nones . |
| 30 | Elinor felt privileged to be one of his girlfriends for she was aware how little he cared for women and how he would sometimes wince when sitting next to one . |