Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were kept in the police station for a couple of days and then we got remanded to Low Newton . |
| 2 | I got remanded to Holloway , which I did n't like . |
| 3 | Sukarno became fascinated by Hartini , wife of an oil magnate . |
| 4 | ‘ He got sacked at Newcastle , but sometimes I think the game can be cruel by not giving you enough time to make your mark . ’ |
| 5 | Until that time , he will remain hidden in Mount Kyffhausen . |
| 6 | She became the mentor of the young ( Dame ) Christabel Pankhurst [ q.v. ] in 1901 , but after three years Christabel became irritated by Eva 's gentle gradualism and pacifism and abandoned her friendship for militancy . |
| 7 | And then he became irritated by Lineker 's ‘ goody two-shoes ’ image , because he felt it was not necessarily justified . |
| 8 | The NME established itself quickly , even if the musical world it reflected was to remain dominated by Geraldo , Humphrey Lyttleton , Johnny Dankworth , differing varieties of big band jazz , and the showbiz gossip direct from ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ ( Denmark St ) , where the paper had its offices ) as reported by a variety of wackily pseudonymous hacks such as ‘ The Slider ’ and ‘ The Alleycat ’ . |
| 9 | Baxter 's career at Raith Rovers flourished and it was only a matter of time before he became won of Scotland 's most sought after young stars . |
| 10 | In one of the largest bonfire events in the region , over 2,000 people crammed into Central Park , Wallasey , for a fireworks display organised by Wirral borough council . |
| 11 | My husband got fined in Germany erm for crossing a road on foot erm when the green man erm to enable , that said that the pedestrian crossing was clear was n't showing . |
| 12 | Structuralist Marxism and critical theory remain committed to Marx 's analysis of the material relations of production but both are concerned to address other aspects of human social life about which Hegel had more to say than Marx . |
| 13 | ‘ First I got dropped from RCA , then I was dropped by my publishing company , and then my marriage split up — it was a terrible time all round , really . |
| 14 | ‘ I got wounded in France . |
| 15 | Neither is subcontracting confined to Japan , as many electrical goods producers , for instance , buy in parts from subsidiaries in South East Asia . |
| 16 | He seemed to regard the exchange purely as a joke , but Marise continued to glower beneath her perfectly drawn black brows , and Faye too looked irritated by Greg 's words . |
| 17 | He is the vital element , a striker with so much potential that , if Graham Taylor gives him the same encouragement he has received at Highbury , he will become Gary Lineker Mark II — only better . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what recent representations he has received about Sunday trading . |
| 19 | On three previous occasions , in 1977 , 1981 and 1987 , his requests were denied , but new hopes have been raised by the support and encouragement which he has received from Dr Rita Suessmuth , President of the Bundestag , who must carry a majority among 640 members of the legislative body for ‘ Wrapped Reichstag ’ to be realised . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health what representations he has received from NUPE and COHSE on the patients charter . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what representations he has received from Cumbria county council on the question of policing in the county . |
| 22 | Shakespeare makes the point about interpretation that modern research in theories of vision and the education of young children has confirmed — that we are all taught to see — by Iago 's prediction of the view that Othello , hidden in the normally superior position of the eavesdropper , will take of his imminent conversation with Cassio : After the scene has turned out exactly as predicted , Iago checks on his victim 's responses : The Signifier here , the handkerchief , has been made by Iago to yield a meaning which is totally false , but which he has put upon it with so much circumstantial detail — Shakespeare 's diligence in this point risks pushing his plot into the incredible — that Othello can only see it as a present that Cassio has received from Desdemona and has ‘ given … his whore ’ . |
| 23 | A THREE-WAY battle has developed between Liverpool athletics star Steve Smith , his rival Dalton Grant , and the British selectors . |
| 24 | With hindsight it is possible to generalise about the two main directions in which this kind of sex difference research has developed since Lakoff . |
| 25 | Clearly , the question of whether Plate Tectonics has developed on Venus is of considerable interest . |
| 26 | While British surfing in recent years has developed into Day-Glo sporting fantasy , into pipeline boasts in city pubs , and into Newquay , Newquay , Newquay — booming as the ‘ surf capital ’ of Britain — these boys have looked to carve a different route . |
| 27 | The study of social policy , as it has developed in Britain , has been concerned to examine the extent to which the welfare state meets people 's needs . |
| 28 | That group , now represented by Yuri Gekht 's Industrial Union , has broken with Mr Volsky 's lobby , ignoring calls for compromise at recent sessions of parliament and voting against Mr Yeltsin at every opportunity . |
| 29 | IBM Corp has a busy February lined up , and not content with mainframe kickers expected February 9 , and AS/400 F models February 16 , the company has inked in February 2 for an array of new RS/6000s . |
| 30 | A student from Darlington 's German twin-town has travelled to Britain to study life on an English newspaper . |