Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sort of pulled backwards and hit that chair , got off that chair . |
| 2 | ‘ No-one at all got off that train except me ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Well we got through several toasters in a year . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Now the mix-up we had yesterday , er on a lot of aggro when I got about this dust extract system one line three . |
| 15 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 16 | Words that are longer than ten characters are shown in inverse video and then percentaged for that sentence . |
| 17 | I was ashamed that I 'd written a reference for him when he applied for that job . |
| 18 | And I applied for that job , and I got it . |
| 19 | Albert was so distressed by the whole affair that he applied for another post further away from the scene of the tragedy . |
| 20 | There were six miles of gauntlet to run before reaching the open sea , and some damaged craft limped through this passage while others were still able to set off at some speed , making smoke cover with their special equipment . |
| 21 | Anybody who lived through that time in Oswaldston will have a lot of memories of it-some of them bitter , some of them funny . |
| 22 | However , it 's impossible for anyone who lived through those times to settle down to cosy domesticity , the world without adventure that Marius Goring offers Shearer . |
| 23 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 24 | Most of us who lived through those times will , I believe , never forget the impact made by their unique hair styles and the famous jackets with no collars . |
| 25 | So they lived through another day — together in the same house , but more separately than ever before . |
| 26 | An Oxford rugby blue in 1959 and 1960 and a keen sailor , Sir Robin , 54 , is remembered by many Whitehall contemporaries as the shrewd captain of the Mandarins cricket team which he led for many years . |
| 27 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 28 | I cared for that child myself . ’ |
| 29 | There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him . |
| 30 | Sometimes I asked about these stories . |