Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " 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 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 .
3 On March 18 Finland applied for membership of the European Communities ( EC ) .
4 Switzerland applied for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank on June 6 , 1990 .
5 ABA light heavyweight champion Anthony Todd , of Darlington , travels to the second of the three Olympic qualifying tournaments in Berck sur Mer hoping he 'll follow in the footsteps of Scarborough 's Paul Ingle , who qualified for Barcelona at the previous tournament in Denmark .
6 The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake .
7 Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil .
8 More to the point , the passage has a rhythmic regularity which enables it to be written out and scanned as poetry in a quasi-blank-verse metre : He has learned an alphabet of arch and aisle : The language of dim stairs and moth-hung rafters .
9 In the summers I rode for hours on a white pedal car with a hooter and real spark plugs .
10 The hon. Member for Londonderry , East asked about emissions from the chemical incinerator at the Coalite works .
11 A pair of mahogany and ebonised doors by Alfred Waterhouse from the Natural History Museum in London sold for £1,700 to the Fine Art Society itself ( est. £800–1,200 ) , while an oak corner bookcase by Waterhouse brought £8,500 ( est. £2–3000 ) .
12 Success rates were generally low for questions which asked for knowledge of the decimal equivalent of common fractions : The answer 1.2 is suggestive of the view that a fraction a/b is equivalent to the decimal a.b .
13 At the station he asked for directions to the industrial estate , and walked it in a quarter of an hour .
14 They asked for information in a general way about various obvious crimes that had taken place in south-east Antrim .
15 A commission to paint Comic Strip comedian Rik Mayall ended rather abruptly when Mayall asked for fuel of an alcoholic nature during his afternoon sitting and , on learning that the artist voted Conservative , began doing Hitler goose steps around the room .
16 YOU asked for comments on the new proposals for points scoring .
17 Secondly , the young stranger who also passed through Godstowe at the same time — was it just a coincidence , or was he connected with the murder victims ? ’
18 Applause and mock commiseration followed : George then followed with : The conceit carried through several verses which varied in pitch and volume as George fought for air against the unaccustomed alcohol .
19 Interests arising , whether under assignments or trusts , were struck down if the entitlement arose after presentation of a winding up petition .
20 Then he dropped to roof-top height and fled for home through the deepening dusk .
21 When Sussex gentlemen and townsmen began to question the practices of the church , they found new allies in the Flemings and Frenchmen who fled for asylum in the 1540s from persecution by Catholic monarchs abroad .
22 Non-attainment areas were given until July 1979 to have an approved SIP which provided for attainment of the primary NAAQSs by December 1982 .
23 The Committee did stress that there was ‘ a real desire for improvement ’ and prepared a draft Convention which provided for service via the consular channel , or by an agent appointed either by a party or by the Court whose process was involved .
24 An agreement between BT and Mercury provided for interconnections between the two systems .
25 The stories each picture told varied from the tragic to the hilarious : The expensive oil landscape which had had seagulls drawn on to the sky in ballpoint pen ; the ancient Highland cattle picture , swopped for food after the First World War by a travelling artist .
26 They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks .
27 The Italian team 's French driver Jean Alesi posed for photographers in the new model but was unable to demonstrate the lightweight 644-B 's abilities at the car 's unveiling as it had broken down on Tuesday before it could be taken on a test run .
28 Some of the ships sank on the way to or from the Promised Land , while millions perished for want of a safe haven .
29 Equation ( 2.2 ) in Table 2 reports the equivalent IV estimates for equation ( 2.1 ) with fitted values and lagged fitted values from ( 1.1 ) used as instruments for the expected return terms .
30 In 1946 he reported for duty in the English Department with another young lecturer , a modernist called Henry Gifford .
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