Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [conj] [verb] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | He asked for and received the resignations of his Cabinet ; it was not clear whether they included his own . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He made as if to shut the drawer , saw the gun and hesitated . |
| 7 | And I made as if to open the door . |
| 8 | ’ When still she made no move , he chuckled and made as if to put the document away again , pausing when he saw out of the corner of his eye that she was returning to the desk , albeit hesitantly . |
| 9 | She , too , rose as if sensing the sudden chill between them . |
| 10 | Darwin 's thinking both drew upon and transcended the conventional ideas of his time . |
| 11 | With the anti-roll bar up front , the car rolls less than it used to and has a jigglier low-speed ride , but it 's true to say that on all models I drove the quality of ride was largely good . |
| 12 | From a pocket in the case , he removes a copy of a painting of Jesus , which he holds up for me to see , widening his eyes like he used to when challenging an opponent or the press . |
| 13 | He paused , and then gestured as if to dismiss the subject . |
| 14 | ‘ God Save the King ! ’ the young man muttered as if uttering an exonerating and protective formula : and he was on his feet . |
| 15 | Case of the Negro Sommersett seventeen seventy-two , ’ Miss Phoebe murmured as if repeating a lesson . |
| 16 | Go back to the west coast where you probably came from and join the other vagrants there . |
| 17 | Parliamentary proceedings , second thoughts about the drafting , and the addition of makeweight provisions , added to and varied the original core as the Bill progressed . |
| 18 | The Minster at Mittelzell is the chief church , built first just after 800 but added to and altered a number of times since ( 257 ) . |
| 19 | So the authors wrote the Workbook , and added to and updated the Student 's Book wherever there was space . |
| 20 | They simply made a raid on the first restaurant they came to and gave the proprietor fits . |
| 21 | Liu Chang 's mouth opened as if to form a question , then clicked shut . |
| 22 | Dealing with wireless every day , Joe rarely listened when off duty to accounts of small successes put over in the announcer 's authoritative tone and the defeats intoned as if reporting a death : which it was , though not a single death , such as when Tobruk had fallen in June and Mussolini went into Libya . |
| 23 | Obispal 's gaze drifted towards Meh'Lindi , and he frowned as if adding the final piece to a puzzle which had been perplexing him , but not liking the pattern that he saw . |
| 24 | Culley nodded as if to confirm the fact , and Helen gave a small start . |
| 25 | Not hers but his and the lovely woman he lived with but had no intention of marrying — yet , that was . |
| 26 | A powerful challenge to such approaches was made as long ago as the 1930s by Professor E. E. Evans-Pritchard who lived with and studied the Azande of Central Africa , a technologically simple society whom Europeans therefore tended to assume were intellectually simple as well . |
| 27 | The declaration stated that the testator in his lifetime ( in consideration that the plaintiff would marry Ellen Nicholl ) agreed with and promised the plaintiff , then unmarried , in the terms of and contained in the following letter : August 11 , 1838 , Gray 's Inn |
| 28 | It might have been assumed that the corollary was that the prosecution did not have to prove that the accused assumed the rights of the owner contrary to the owner 's wishes but in Morris it was held that a person appropriated only if he adversely interfered with or usurped the rights of the owner . |
| 29 | ‘ Time Passeth ’ , yet , but poetic values are untouched by the passing of time and what existed for and moved the man Tennyson , still exists to move man today . |
| 30 | It was the G M B which campaigned for and won the regulations . |