Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the advice of a friend , she applied for and got a freelance job with the BBC in Plymouth . |
| 2 | BSB 's original backers , who applied for and won the contract to broadcast from 31° West , signed to use MAC . |
| 3 | These are so overwhelming that they stop adults going on to do the courses they applied for or enquired about . |
| 4 | The men in the technical crew , unpaid , were earning their way by filming the fiesta for the B.B.C. The Bedouins , whom Cecil cared for and saw to be poor , were being paid in private out of Cecil 's own pocket . |
| 5 | It asked for and received the help of the ruler of the Hohenstaufen ( Germanic ) Empire , Frederik 1 , known as Barbarossa ( ‘ Red Beard ’ ) who crossed the Alps and attacked Milan . |
| 6 | He asked for and received the resignations of his Cabinet ; it was not clear whether they included his own . |
| 7 | The only douceur which he asked for and obtained was 11 Downing Street . |
| 8 | The existence of a strong Hellenizing party in Jerusalem , which asked for and obtained the support of the Seleucid king , explains what in Hellenistic terms was the exceptional behaviour of Antiochus IV . |
| 9 | SACEUR , General Lauris Norstadt , argued for and won some delay in Sandys ' programme and a modest increase in the proposed strength of BAOR . |
| 10 | He shall be substituted for and succeeded by his wife , the Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza . |
| 11 | The Leith Chamber of Commerce was instituted in 1840 and in 1852 the Directors petitioned for and obtained a Charter of Incorporation on their representation ‘ That the town of Leith is the principal seaport in the East of Scotland and it would tend much to the encouragement and promotion of the trade and manufacture already extensively established and carried on there , if the Petitioners were incorporated as a Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers , with the powers and privileges usually conferred on such bodies ’ . |
| 12 | Changes in the container as well as in the product should be looked for and reported . |
| 13 | This is reinforced by Handy 's view that schools have a multiplicity of purposes and these are not discriminated between or prioritised , nor do they include any reference to the management of adults . |
| 14 | ‘ They 've got to be carefully looked after and tested . |
| 15 | The first need is to try and ensure that the churchyard is looked after and kept tidy . |
| 16 | Mayor Kropacek said : ‘ We must thank the Thun-Hohenstein family for having looked after and honoured the picture of the Annunciation for nearly half a century and for having now returned it , newly restored , to the church of the Holy Cross . |
| 17 | The navy was the guarantee that Great Britain 's interests elsewhere could be looked after and gave her enormous strategical advantages outside Europe . |
| 18 | It 's important to go somewhere with a good kindergarten where they can just be looked after or taught to ski . |
| 19 | He moved towards and took hold of her gently by the shoulders , forcing her to turn and look at him . |
| 20 | ( Following the first election , however , he was successfully petitioned against and had to withdraw , but he survived the petition that followed the second . ) |
| 21 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems Inc , which two months ago was hiring back some of its old lieutenants , has up and laid off all its vice-presidents and managers except for its engineering chief , and will close down all but its Russian and its headquarters operations , Unigram reports . |
| 22 | Pick Systems Inc , which two months ago was hiring back some of its old lieutenants ( UX No 420 ) , has up and laid off all its vice presidents and managers except its engineering chief reportedly without notice or severance and will close down all but its Russian and headquarters operations . |
| 23 | There is little chance of the " professional " participator emerging with real understanding , for to find out the truth of religion it has to be wrestled with and lived , not just safely and probably patronizingly studied from a safe distance . |
| 24 | The question was not whether the judge had made a wrong decision but whether he had inquired into and decided a matter which he had no right to consider . |
| 25 | The supermarket , the fast-food joint , the parking lot have all been projects of the practice : but a Macdonalds which floats , a parking lot with 20 cars deeply buried under asphalt , and its most celebrated work , the series of catalogue stores for the Best company where boxes are smashed into and eroded , with trees growing through them , façades peel or tilt , distorting the relationships between the predictable elements of the landscape . |
| 26 | She had a foal with us during the dreadful winter of 1947 , and her behaviour became even worse , so much so that our good neighbour Mr Britton said she was n't fit for a young woman like me to work with and insisted I borrow his horse Bobby , a very even-tempered animal . |
| 27 | Where a person claims possession of land he alleges is occupied solely by a person or persons ( not a tenant or tenants holding over ) who entered into or remained in occupation without his licence or consent or that of any predecessor in title of his , the proceedings may be brought by originating application under Ord 24 . |
| 28 | There the work was carried out until the L & B Railway had amalgamated with and leased a number of small lines , notably the Birmingham and Manchester , Liverpool and Manchester , and the South Staffordshire Railways . |
| 29 | Darwin 's thinking both drew upon and transcended the conventional ideas of his time . |
| 30 | Many Andersonstown people originated from or had family ties with the Falls Road , the area where the Clonard is located ; the Braniel population on the other hand are East Belfast people , many of whom have ties with the Newtownards Road where Ballymacarrett is located ( see map 4.1 ) . |