Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maintenance grants remain frozen at a maximum of £2,845 for students in London and £2,265 for those studying elsewhere . |
| 2 | Some people take furniture to her that they do n't like or are tired of and want transformed into a work of art ; she optimistically feels that no piece of furniture is totally without hope . |
| 3 | a number of the savings erm and the increased income that is available to , to avoid savings are the result of your own policies developed over a number of years and I hope implemented with a degree of further manage managerial action which has actually given you some money to spend , erm which will avoid you having to make er painful cuts in order to fund a new growth and in particular I would highlight the significant movement that has has now taken place , children from special educational needs provision outside the county , back into the county . |
| 4 | Confronting the fact from the other side is Alex Macdonald , the Airdrie manager whose team seem bent on a place in the Guinness Book of Records with 100 bookings in a season . |
| 5 | Hardest hit are small businessmen and the unemployed who get sucked into a string of debt , partly as a result of easy credit , added Mr Milburn . |
| 6 | Young males that regularly harass a particular harem owner finally get accepted as a member of the harem . |
| 7 | Now you , if you get rid of a lot of , of a lot of the rubbish right ? |
| 8 | So everything 's there , printing presses repro separation houses , sheet film , computer set up and Apple Macs and everything is there , it 's actually a very impressive set up erm , the Queen Margaret 's course , I 'm slightly dubious about I once had a colleague I 'm going back a decade who had been employed on the basis of doing the communications course at Queen Margaret I think , and it turned out that it was n't communications as we understood it , it was n't our sort of communications P R newspapers and things like that , it was communications on a much broader , broader front so it did n't actually fit in to the world of P R and what happened was I then had to sit down and train this woman from scratch and get rid of a lot of the preconceived notions that she had come in with she had brought from Queen Margaret 's College . |
| 9 | We 're gon na make it safe cos when you 're the door you can actually walk in the door and and get clobbered with a lot of bales I feel so we 're gon na make that safe . |
| 10 | I get asked to a party with John Paul Getty II and he does n't show . |
| 11 | First they send you all round the town and then you get processed into a system with thousands of other people and it does n't feel at all like driving to a town on the coast and just getting on a boat . |
| 12 | If you have not trained your lecturer to give you the information to which you are entitled — that he is to deal with such and such a topic on specific days — then get started with a process of attrition , backed by your friends , until he does produce a programme for the term . |
| 13 | We went to the races and watched Nolan ride Fiona 's horse Groundsel and get beaten by a length into second place , and we watched Sam ride two of Tremayne 's runners unprofitably and then win for another trainer . |
| 14 | Mr William Soeryadjaya ( Chinese name : Mr Tjia Kian Liong ) , the 67-year old seigneur , is a founder-member of the Euro-Asia Centre at INSEAD , the Paris-based business school where Astra 's middle managers get sent for a spot of polishing . |
| 15 | You could , for nothing , real or imagined , the slightest slight , get crippled in a place like this . |
| 16 | People often feel devastated by an encounter with an aggressive person . |
| 17 | From birth , the environment in which babies find themselves is an intensely social one and almost inevitably they become enmeshed in a network of social interactions ( Richards 1974 ; Schaffer 1977 ) . |
| 18 | Stroll around a spa ( and the atmosphere of relaxation hardly invites you to go any faster ) and you become lulled into a state in which you would hardly be surprised to see a monarch emerge from the portals of an hotel . |
| 19 | When saline solutions in rock pores become saturated as a result of a temperature change or evaporation , salt crystals begin to form and considerable pressures are generated . |
| 20 | That is , why is it that some people rather than others who experience the type of disparity described above become committed to a movement for moral reform ? |
| 21 | Thus rapidly , and with support on all sides , did Co-operation become accepted as a means of doing business , and at much the same time as did the joint stock company in essentially its modern form . |
| 22 | For , with the use of modern materials and construction techniques , the long established Sanjo Rokkaku fighting kite from Shirone , Japan , has , since 1983 , become adopted as a cult by the Western kite world . |
| 23 | But Mark had now become absorbed in an idea for a sermon that had suddenly come to him . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't want to become a prisoner of my own fame or become pushed into a corner by success and just sit at home . ’ |
| 25 | The conflicts are reflected in the personal lives of three families , Christian , Muslim and Jewish with parents and children in different parts of the world , whose destinies become entwined against a backdrop of ecclesiastical ambition . |
| 26 | The movement to re-examine curriculum and methodology , which has been shown to be characteristic of teachers and educationists since the end of the Second World War , may take a variety of different forms , and become associated with a number of different fashions and bandwagons , but it is unlikely to come to a halt . |
| 27 | After 100yds go left through a wood to a road . |
| 28 | For when we ask which interests should be protected , we immediately become engaged in a debate about distributive justice rather than an examination of the concept of personal autonomy . |
| 29 | People 's eating habits and food preferences are learned ; they are habits that become ingrained over a period of years . |
| 30 | Consultation in the creation of policy is essential , but it should not become such an end in itself that decisions become imprisoned in a wheel of endless debate . |