Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the town of Newton Stewart , not too far from Annan , a solicitor , Giles Davies , lost £1.8 million from his clients ' accounts because he became embroiled in a similar deal . |
| 2 | Berger also recalled last year 's Mexico Grand Prix , in which he and Nigel Mansell became embroiled in a tremendous battle during the closing stages of the race . |
| 3 | Although designed as a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the party 's foundation , the conference immediately became embroiled in a bitter struggle over the election of the ALP president , a largely ceremonial position . |
| 4 | Here he was a barrow boy who became embroiled in a pitched battle with children in Wilcox Road market , South Lambeth . |
| 5 | During her trials off the west coast of Scotland in 1989 , Upholder lost power when her propulsion control system failed to cope with a sudden switch from full ahead to full astern power , a problem which contributed seven months to the three-year delay in her becoming operational . |
| 6 | From the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , the educated élite became exposed to a heady concoction of western romantic , Idealist , and socialist ideas . |
| 7 | For example , if they failed to arrange for a minor repair in the science labs and a pupil was hurt as a result , they might be guilty of a safety offence . |
| 8 | Imagine what would happen if Britain sought to remain outside a single currency and European monetary union . |
| 9 | At the age of 42 I applied to go on a two-year business and finance course and finally , after a lot of readjustment , I have just had the results — pass with a few distinctions and merits thrown in . |
| 10 | It is typical of Richard that he accepted the task with alacrity and succeeded with such brilliance that almost overnight he became recognized as a famous warrior . |
| 11 | Prices plunged in October to their lowest level for more than 14 years ( taking the price of beans in London to £655 a tonne ) after the 74-country International Coffee Organization ( ICO ) failed to agree on a new price stabilization agreement favoured by the USA , the largest consumer , based on a greater allocation of the export market to some coffee producers , notably Colombia , at the expense of Brazil and the African countries . |
| 12 | The congress failed to agree on a new name for the party . |
| 13 | Experts met in Spain in September to discuss the problem but delegates failed to agree on a possible cause . |
| 14 | A breakthrough to end the 11-year civil war in El Salvador seemed unlikely , as representatives of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ) guerrillas and the government failed to agree on a common plan covering reform of the US-backed armed forces , arrangements for a ceasefire , and constitutional changes to enable the FMLN to disarm and participate in democratic politics [ see p. 38231 ; for 1990 peace talks see pp. 37372 ; 37449 ; 37770-71 ; 37850 ] . |
| 15 | Mm we expected to perform in a professional way , particularly after incidents like last week when we had an horrendous twenty four hours and we do n't get paid for it |
| 16 | ROS : A Christian , a Moslem and a Jew chanced to meet in a closed carriage … |
| 17 | The mystic person who singularly failed to appear during a 20-year span of abuse was my doctor . |
| 18 | They made a short visit , I suspect that they were going on to M.J. 's [ Margaret Jourdain 's ] brother and like Dulcia [ in A House and Its Head ] expected to come by a good deal of refreshment in the course of their peregrinations . |
| 19 | As a result of the appeal , the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup final could not be staged last season , so the trophies and mementoes were presented to Mold Victoria and Ship and Anchor who agreed to meet in a special charity match for the Andrew Wilday Eye Cancer Fund . |
| 20 | ‘ It was in Kabul that I got caught in a safe house , ’ another term he 'll always think of differently , ‘ by the secret police and I was put in prison . |
| 21 | Zambia became caught in a vicious circle because the mining industry is also heavily dependent on increasingly expensive imports , so that over time , output , investment and productivity fell . |
| 22 | Most extraordinary of these are the Cretaceous rudists ( p. 47 ) a group in which one valve became modified to a long cone , on which the other valve rested like a lid , the whole effect being most un-clammish . |
| 23 | Their cheery , knees-up-Muvver-Brown , cock-er-nee grin gradually became eroded by a grim awareness of reality as the Thatcher years dragged on . |
| 24 | ‘ ACCESS HATCH ’ , she read embossed into a transparent panel , and , in smaller letters underneath , ‘ IN EMERGENCY , ENTER CODE 398 . ’ |
| 25 | After an opening 25 minutes of tedious football , Wright got to work with a magnificent solo display . |
| 26 | Trade relations were also discussed with Ivan Silayev , chair of the Interstate Economic Committee and both sides agreed to work on a long-term trade co-operation treaty . |
| 27 | I rose to preach with a jolly remark about there being an official opposition , ‘ but perhaps it will be going for a walk in a little while ’ . |
| 28 | This , this poem 's called Dancing Feet Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet erm and , if you , if you take , were oops trying to pay particular attention to , if you can see the geese in , in this one here , there 's a fate , there 's a , there 's a forfeit which is missing , what 's going on and er , and the reason well in fact er which , which was er very much a vocal point for me in , in that painting |
| 29 | Ok , Time found hidden in a hard day , dry earth becomes a dance floor , audience of three fowl , the fourth along with a reaper turns it back , wooden shoes meant for mud , rug on dancing feet Erm the next one is the still life on , on with three puppies , while I was looking at Gaugin 's work I could n't help but notice he 's constantly struck by the fact that he use set of three symbols through out his work it seems , and very , very often three caricatures erm or lines of three or three objects and I found this very interesting , more point of view that something that I , I wanted to incorporate in my own work , but I wanted to find a line or a phrase to use in the same way , erm , all of my work starts as one or a series of visual images and , and I then turn them into characters , repeating a word or repeating a line would be a way of erm emphasising characterise erm and the puppies that are in this painting erm , they delighted my children so much , I do n't know if any of you know , do you know the painting of the three puppies |
| 30 | None of the fathers ' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment . |