Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although flying is officially banned within a radius of one nautical mile and below 2,000 feet around the station , Dr Ray Seymour , a research physicist from Somerset County Council , produced Ministry of Defence figures which showed that roughly 2,400 flights each year from the nearby Yeovilton air base pass over or adjacent to Hinkley Point . |
| 2 | A member of the Spooner family , connected to Wilberforce by his marriage to Barbara Spooner , became Archdeacon of Coventry with responsibility for Birmingham and had close links to the evangelical Calthorpes , landowners and philanthropists in the city . |
| 3 | A Tractarian , whose work for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel attracted national attention , he became archdeacon of Dorset in 1862 but resigned , through ill health , nine months later . |
| 4 | Malaysia sought support for its initiative in various forums and in November 1971 succeeded in gaining a cautious endorsement for it from ASEAN in the form of a declaration issued by a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Kuala Lumpur . |
| 5 | Baker also sought support for the USA 's opposition to a Malaysian proposal for an East Asian trade grouping which excluded the USA [ see p. 38535 ] . |
| 6 | The HCIMA sought support from all of the relevant industry and education groupings to determine whether this would be supported by all concerned . |
| 7 | But the Euro-sceptics got support from an unexpected source on Monday evening . |
| 8 | Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact . |
| 9 | I got support from my sister , but I did miss them . |
| 10 | I also got support from er Labour Labour Party in Leith who sent down two volunteers to help me . |
| 11 | ‘ You mean if I got kind of aroused right now , I should n't fight it or flounder , or try to control it , but just be it . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There are some really good women writers around at the moment ; Shawn Colvin 's excellent , and so 's a woman called Ferron , although she got kind of pigeonholed into ‘ women 's music ’ , and I think that 's limited her audience . |
| 13 | sort of got kind of an odd relationship between the friends |
| 14 | I 'll bet it got kind of cosy at night ! |
| 15 | The other species , more technologically adept , sought sanctuary for their decaying bodies by encasing them in survival suits . |
| 16 | After a few hundred yards , he sought sanctuary in a nearby house . |
| 17 | This incident proved the danger to Special Forces when they sought sanctuary in a neutral country , for Graham Hayes was shot in a Paris prison in the summer of 1943 . |
| 18 | Later thousands of Kurdish refugees sought sanctuary in Turkey and Iran . |
| 19 | On Viola 's approach down the hall , Hilda turned up the gas and made preparation for a hasty departure , but this , it seemed , was not the idea . |
| 20 | His defects were that he lacked subtlety , was vehemently anti-communist to the point where any unrest or dissent might be regarded as a sign of communist activity , and that he lacked preparation for the tasks he faced . |
| 21 | At the age of twenty-two he returned to Ireland and on his father 's advice sought admission to the National Deaf Mute College in America for a degree course . |
| 22 | and well they used to make , and they made these they made kind of lots of tin things you know like different sizes and I can nae just describe what they , there was one had big whiskers down his face but er the rest was clean shaven , you ken . |
| 23 | The next step is to translate these into a person oriented description of what the successful scheme graduate will have acquired . |
| 24 | so you got mollycoddle in a way , have n't you , so you know you say |
| 25 | Although it was small and its facilities were poor , the standard of learning attained was high , as was illustrated by McJannet in his History of Irvine when he noted that as early as 1729 , the pupils ‘ translated part of a Greek Testament into Latin ; some of the Roman authors into English … and also translated many English sentences into elegant Latin with great dexterity . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Post your letters ? ’ asked Mum over tea . |
| 27 | Sure , Cuba 's circumstances made part of its ruling class ultra-anti-American . |
| 28 | A universal truth has to be digested and made part of our thinking and understanding . |
| 29 | Unix System Labs ' top brass has been meeting with the Russian Minister of Higher Education about getting Unix made part of the curriculum . |
| 30 | International Law so far as this Court is concerned , is the body of doctrine regarding the international rights and duties of States which has been adopted and made part of the Law of Scotland . |