Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they first met for real the fierce , cold , autocratic , heroically self-made man 's beady eye and cockily addressed him as ‘ Washy ’ to his face , well , petrification set in , sometimes terminal . |
| 2 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 3 | Only the Good Christ knows why we met for that . |
| 4 | Responding to the resolution , the Prime Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met for preliminary talks in the Georgian capital , Tbilisi , on March 30 . |
| 5 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 6 | there , which I got off one of my |
| 7 | Donna got off two shots before he crashed into her . |
| 8 | We said nothing after that , except to nod goodbye when Tom got off two stops ahead of me . |
| 9 | ‘ No-one at all got off that train except me ? ’ |
| 10 | He sort of pulled backwards and hit that chair , got off that chair . |
| 11 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 12 | I honestly think that it 's time the English got off this notion , which after all has nothing to do with the original meaning of the word ‘ amateur ’ , which means having a passion for something , erm got off this notion that the amateur , the gentleman , as Geoffrey said , is necessarily more truly engaged with the activity than somebody else . |
| 13 | This in effect led to a situation where the commercial energy input became about equal to the equivalent energy output of edible grains . |
| 14 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 15 | Erm the tools were made up in a kit and er every time there was a work study exercise done on a job , er the tools were all numbered and laid aside and registered for that particular item . |
| 16 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 17 | I referred earlier to the effort that we made during 1992 to make ourselves both more efficient and more profitable . |
| 18 | But the profits in which he shared during 1840–44 did not come up to expectations , and after the disappointment of the low profits on A Christmas Carol , published on commission , he broke temporarily with Chapman & Hall , and turned to their printers , Bradbury & Evans , as his new publishers . |
| 19 | René Théodore , designated as Prime minister under the Washington accord , called on Haitians to put pressure on the military government to force its resignation , and on April 13 the Congress rejected a proposal by the C.-in-C. of the Army , Gen. Raoul Cédras , for a " national conference " ostensibly intended to find ways to restore stability . |
| 20 | He and Eva argued about this : she thought him indulgent . |
| 21 | So we got there and he said right okay you 're the press chappy he 's right I 've put your press people over there so while respect Lieutenant Commander that really wo n't do because everything including the Band of the Royal Marines is between them and the Princess Royal so we argued about this and the compromise eventually was that that everybody would have to stay there until the ceremony started and then we could bring the stills photographers round to the end and up to one side where it was all happening mainly to get a picture of his wife cutting the cake . |
| 22 | The two-year course was introduced in 1844 and endured for 32 years . |
| 23 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 24 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 25 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 26 | Just rang up the LUFC ticket office ( got through first time , is this a record ? ) and all the tickets for Cov have sold out . |
| 27 | However the author got through 3182 lines without mentioning Christ , or salvation , and yet without saying specifically that his heroes , including the kind and honest figure of Beowulf himself , were damned — though he must have known that historically and in reality they were all pagans , ignorant even of the name of Christ . |
| 28 | Well he said he got through fifty quid . |
| 29 | Well he got through fifty quid on Saturday and Sunday so that 's forty pints in n it ? |
| 30 | We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left . |