Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 2 | Responding to the resolution , the Prime Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met for preliminary talks in the Georgian capital , Tbilisi , on March 30 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | We said nothing after that , except to nod goodbye when Tom got off two stops ahead of me . |
| 5 | Donna got off two shots before he crashed into her . |
| 6 | He sort of pulled backwards and hit that chair , got off that chair . |
| 7 | ‘ No-one at all got off that train except me ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 11 | In February 1940 at the Labour Exchange at Devizes , I duly registered for military service . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The two-year course was introduced in 1844 and endured for 32 years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 17 | Just rang up the LUFC ticket office ( got through first time , is this a record ? ) and all the tickets for Cov have sold out . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well he said he got through fifty quid . |
| 20 | Well he got through fifty quid on Saturday and Sunday so that 's forty pints in n it ? |
| 21 | Erm by insuring that direct line , and that we have training facilities here which are part of the social contract , and that we have er investment , through regional investment , in this particular area , then we can create jobs that suit the skills that we 've er made available to the general population , and that we got through that rail link a direct line access to all the markets within Europe , which is going to expand , er not withstanding my objections , from the twelve to the sixteen and right the way through to Russia . |
| 22 | So this was quite a mission which I believe has not been adequately covered in the history and was a forerunner of things to come and like I say we got through that mission without any damage , our gunners got to shoot at the first German fighters and we were an experienced crew with one mission under our belt . |
| 23 | I said an er I said do you think that I was n't a career woman , I said I gave it all up for yo er to have to look after my young babies and then when the babies were no longer young , when I got through that phase of my life I went back and combined looking after a home very adequately , thank you ! |
| 24 | No forty pints in two like Saturday afternoon and Saturday night , Sunday afternoon and Sunday night , he got through forty pints or perhaps just under forty pints but that 's it . |
| 25 | And er fo for that reason , er you know , Lady got through three fortunes , and I think she di died with a few hundred pounds in the building society , and if you get the timing right , that 's the way to do it . |
| 26 | It was funny to hear Sir Bernard Ingham telling us on that delayed programme about the recession , which Samir Shah so bravely defended , that Mrs Thatcher was too nice to sack people ( bless you , Bernard , she got through more company than Sweeney Todd ) . |
| 27 | Well we got through several toasters in a year . |
| 28 | He soon got through 90 guilders , which his father thought an excessive amount . |
| 29 | And you know they ca n't go , this one ca n't go earlier than that one because we 've got the sequence and so if we got through these steps , I think that those steps are the same steps that we go through on any project . |
| 30 | He got about fifty yards up the road , stopped , turned towards me and said , ‘ I hear you 're looking into my affairs . |