Example sentences of "received a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am six weeks pregnant , and have just received a present of some beauty products . |
| 2 | In February 1942 , Captain Oswald Benton , a welfare officer , Royal Artillery , wrote to the county treasurer on behalf of one of his soldiers whose wife had had an operation at St. Peter 's , and who had received a bill for £1.4s.0d. ( which included £1.1s.0d. for the anaesthetic fee ) : |
| 3 | He had received a bill for £10.12s.6d. which he respectfully offered to pay off at 30s. a week . |
| 4 | Now I have received a bill for nineteen pounds thirty from the hospital for the treatment I was given . |
| 5 | One farmer has just received a bill for seven hundred pounds . |
| 6 | HOUSEWIFE Alma Brownrigg , who emigrated from Chelmsford , Essex , to Malta has received a bill from Eastern Electricity for 1p . |
| 7 | The writer had received a bill from St. Peter 's Hospital for £10.5s.6d. : |
| 8 | Peter Laslett , who had succeeded his fellow-historian Edward Miller as District treasurer three years before , made a further point to the District Executive when it considered the financial position early in September : the local education authorities had recently received a circular from the Ministry asking that students ' fees for courses be raised to 10s. 0d. per term . |
| 9 | His grandfather had received a baronetcy for loyalty to the Crown in the Civil War . |
| 10 | The presence or severity of the lesions contributing to the anaemia was difficult to interpret at endoscopy in 43 of the patients as they had received a course of H 2 antagonists ( n=18 ) or had reduced or stopped aspirin or NSAIDs ( n=32 ) , or both , before the first hospital attendence . |
| 11 | Mr Smith would have had to pay 20% of this — £80 and would have received a rebate for £320 . |
| 12 | She had almost successfully deterred André from his plans to paint the town red with her , had vaguely told him that she would see how she felt when he issued the invitation , only to pour all her good intentions down the drain when this morning Piers had received a call from Nicole , and informed Alyssia offhandedly that he would be out for the balance of the day . |
| 13 | One day in September , Flora 's doctor received a call from someone who claimed to be from the Family Health Services Authority , asking for details from his files , suspicious , he gave nothing away . |
| 14 | We are not allowed to know just yet , for the London Underground rule book tells drivers to wait for 30 minutes before making an announcement , unless they 've received a message to the contrary from their controllers or there is some ‘ immediate threat to safety . ’ |
| 15 | PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — The Czechoslovak dissident playwright Vaclav Havel said he had received a message from Poland 's Prime Minister , Tadeusz Mazowiecki , that he would work for the release of two Czechoslovak human rights campaigners , Jan Carnogursky and Miroslav Kusy . |
| 16 | ‘ Have you received a message from London to apprehend Tweed ? ’ |
| 17 | Nails had received a message from Mr Sylvester that the Social Services representative wanted to see him at four o'clock . |
| 18 | As the British Resident Minister at AFHQ , Harold Macmillan , reported to the Foreign Office [ KP63 ] : " Thirteen Corps have received a message from General Loehr 's headquarters in Croatia brought by the hand of a German Foreign Office official . |
| 19 | The Syrian Defence Minister , Gen. Mustafa Tlass , had visited Moscow in February and had reportedly received a pledge of military aid . |
| 20 | of the cases observed received a caution with no significant difference between races . |
| 21 | On May 13 it was reported that Taylor 's forces had received a cargo of military equipment from Libya through the port of Buchanan , and that the rebels were freely using supply routes through Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 22 | Aerospatiale has received a follow-on-contract from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in the United States for ten TB-9 Tampicos , with options for a further sixteen . |
| 23 | The electronics industry will have received a total of 5.7 billion ecus from Brussels between 1990 and 1994 , with additional money from national coffers . |
| 24 | Having received a total of 4,360 transferred votes — more than the 3,480 first-preference votes he began with — Quinn now had in all 7,840 , 165 in excess of the quota . |
| 25 | The senators , Alan Cranston ( Democrat , California ) , John Glenn ( Dem. , Ohio ) , Donald Riegle ( Dem. , Michigan ) , Dennis DeConcini ( Dem. , Arizona ) , and John McCain ( Rep. , Arizona ) , who had received a total of over $1,300,000 in contributions to campaign funds from Keating , all denied wrongdoing . |
| 26 | On July 31 a further 13 brokerage houses released the identity of 380 institutions and the initials of six individuals who had received a total of 43,697 million yen ( about S320 million ) in compensation payments . |
| 27 | In addition to the many personal representation made to members of the council on the subject of fox hunting on county council land , the county secretary has now received a total of two hundred and six written representations nearly as many as me . |
| 28 | Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " . |
| 29 | In November , many of you will have received a mailing about the Napier University MasterCard . |
| 30 | The Video Recordings Act 1984 was intended to outlaw the ‘ video nasties ’ which were causing such a panic at the time , by making it illegal to distribute films on video which have not received a certificate from the British Board of Film Classification . |