Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also became embroiled in another conflict with Britain over Syria and Lebanon . |
| 2 | R.A. Hamilton asked that more mature trees be obtained and the chairman agreed to attend to this matter . |
| 3 | In July 1973 , after months of preliminary exchanges , a meeting of foreign ministers agreed to proceed with such talks which took place over the next two years . |
| 4 | Mr Mowatt agreed to proceed with this . |
| 5 | ‘ And you know who you got to thank for that , mate , do n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | You say you got to go to that golf club or you 've got to go to that school . |
| 7 | The resolution of economic and social problems in the context of housing policy and land planning failed to materialize in any comprehensive sense . |
| 8 | ‘ But my life never really started at any stage — which I know you wo n't believe , but it 's true — so it never really got stopped at any point . |
| 9 | I was out and under the bonnet when I got stopped by this policeman . |
| 10 | Steve , asked to sit at another table , astonished their host , Lord McAlpine , with the reply : ‘ Mah woman and I sit together . ’ |
| 11 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |
| 12 | Then , as the weeks went by , I got filled with this sense of pride . |
| 13 | The historical fact is that the settlement of 1688–1701 failed to settle everything ; it failed to provide for all contingencies . |
| 14 | ‘ I think I got trapped into that statement . |
| 15 | That capital and experience would give Lloyd 's a bigger , global strength , as it became dominated by fewer , larger groups . |
| 16 | Haydon failed to come to any agreement with his creditors . |
| 17 | However , the two parties failed to come to any agreement over plans for the construction of autoroute A16 , linking Boulogne with Amiens . |
| 18 | The working man was so successfully emancipated that he ( and even more , polls suggest , his wife ) ceased to defer to those who said they were his public spokesmen . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , those four hundred thousand Palestinians lost everything in Kuwait , and erm it 'll be important to know that for each Palestinian in Kuwait there 's at least two or three other Palestinians whom they support outside Kuwait , in other words in Jordan , West Bank and the Gaza strip , so totally the Palestinians who got devastated by this invasion is about one point two million Palestinians . |
| 20 | Shortly after graduating in 1987 , the opportunity arose to work with former Napier student , Tom Kidd . |
| 21 | By a different route , New Zealand and Newfoundland were similarly placed and , as we have seen , in 1922 the Irish Free State became added to this list . |
| 22 | One old petrol stove clogged up and failed to work at all . |
| 23 | They seem to have this idea about natural talent and any kid who shows the slightest promise is put into sport and made to concentrate on that . |
| 24 | As one would except , pre-existing material got sucked into this new world . |
| 25 | I got caught with all these drugs in a car by the same police ( I do n't know what I do , but it 's the same police every time I get arrested ) and I got charged with possession . |
| 26 | Do you know what would happen to us if we got caught with this stuff ? |
| 27 | You got caught on that . |
| 28 | ‘ I nearly got caught like that , when I was seventeen . |
| 29 | ‘ Miraculously they swept you round to Gullholm , where I must have found you minutes after you got caught in that inlet . ’ |
| 30 | No , it got attacked by some crows , they bit it |