Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] " 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 | No religion revealed through Mohammed . |
| 3 | Religion revealed through Mohammed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | She liked to save any money she got off Nigel and had her own private account in a building society the other side of London . |
| 15 | What the new jacket we got off Lee ? |
| 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 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Our family got off light altogether , ’ Mrs Lennox said . |
| 21 | Oh is that what you got off Madge ? |
| 22 | ‘ But you still got off cocaine ? |
| 23 | just talk to them , just so short staffed , I do n't know when Jim last got off duty on time |
| 24 | It was all wrong and back to front , but no one could say the old baggage lacked for courage . |
| 25 | If so were the figures I posted for corners etc totally false , or were we like ‘ Cobras with arthritis ’ again ? |
| 26 | Four children and their father set off on a bear hunt in high spirits , but by the time they 've forded a river , squelched through mud , survived a snowstorm and a wild wood to penetrate the bear 's dark cave , all they are capable of is running home again , with bear in hot pursuit . |
| 27 | In May Maureen registered for war work and was directed to a clerical job in an office near Sarah 's . |
| 28 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 29 | Eastern Airlines , the sixth-largest airline in the USA , also registered for Chapter 11 protection on Jan. 18 , and all its aircraft were grounded pending a possible sale . |
| 30 | The doughmen could tell by the feel of the dough , and by the sound that it made during mixing , if it was too dry or too wet , and add small amounts of required ingredients to compensate . |