Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | On 3 September they met for dinner at the Day 's Inn on Jeff Davis Highway in Crystal City , Virginia . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | just talk to them , just so short staffed , I do n't know when Jim last got off duty on time |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He himself lived off fruit with sugar , yoghurt , cereals , eggs , instant coffee , and he often ate toast three times a day . |
| 11 | Yet other Douglas robber barons continued to indulge in their own intrigues against king and country , in the ‘ almost aimless treachery ’ , as Andrew Lang describes it , which ‘ endured for centuries from the reign of David II to that of James VI ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ The rest of the band we got through friends of friends on the Glasgow scene , ’ he said . |
| 13 | Julian was fond of steaks : we got through jars of mustard . |
| 14 | We got about Amsterdam on bicycles — I had n't ridden one since I was seven years old — and that had stabilisers — so I had a little trouble . |
| 15 | Much of the indebtedness of these middle-income countries arose through borrowings in private sector capital markets , mainly the euro-currency markets , and although it was feared that the banks involved were seriously at risk it is becoming clear that rescheduling of debt by the banks with the debtor countries has been possible . |
| 16 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 17 | Lithuania agreed as part of the agreement to construct housing for servicemen in Kaliningrad ( Russian territory separated from Russia proper by Lithuania ) in exchange for receiving hardware from the Baltic Fleet as a basis on which to form a Lithuanian navy . |
| 18 | Banks that lent for property at the top of the market would be wrong to bail out near the bottom |
| 19 | Perhaps some of the cooks who fought as infantry at Maleme , Crete , could drop us a line . |
| 20 | How are musical forms and practices appropriated for use by particular classes ? |
| 21 | Ron lived to see the latter ambition fulfilled from the foundations he laid as Chairman of the racing section of the British Canoe Union and Olympic Team Manager . |
| 22 | When they applied for help with arrears , " The DHSS told me to sell some of the furniture or the telly . |
| 23 | I was not short of students who applied for help in the most distressing of circumstances : mature students with spouses and children , who had been denied housing benefit and income support to which they had previously been entitled ; landlords pressing for rent payments and students with no money to pay ; arrears of rent building up ; poll tax arrears building up ; overdrafts being extended ; electricity supplies being cut off , in some cases to parents and children . |
| 24 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 25 | Geisler applied for probation for Mitchum and a further hearing was set for February . |
| 26 | When he applied for immigration into Australia he had to undergo a routine medical examination . |
| 27 | On 1 December , the IDA applied for permission for an asbestos waste dump on land it owned at Curraghbinny , an exclusive residential and scenic area of Co . |
| 28 | He applied for discovery of certain internal police reports . |
| 29 | ‘ To begin with , I worked for the family , pushing the churns round the streets on the milk-cart , but then I got too old for that , and I applied for work with the Dock workers Guild at Jubilee Wharf . ’ |
| 30 | 26–12- James McDermid , shepherd at Lossit , applied for baptism of his child . |