Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baker also sought support for the USA 's opposition to a Malaysian proposal for an East Asian trade grouping which excluded the USA [ see p. 38535 ] . |
| 2 | But the Euro-sceptics got support from an unexpected source on Monday evening . |
| 3 | sort of got kind of an odd relationship between the friends |
| 4 | She got the ceiling decorated and made improvements to the entrance to make it more welcoming . |
| 5 | After a few hundred yards , he sought sanctuary in a nearby house . |
| 6 | This incident proved the danger to Special Forces when they sought sanctuary in a neutral country , for Graham Hayes was shot in a Paris prison in the summer of 1943 . |
| 7 | On Viola 's approach down the hall , Hilda turned up the gas and made preparation for a hasty departure , but this , it seemed , was not the idea . |
| 8 | A second Expeditionary Force was despatched across the Channel to France , but it WAS forced to return to Britain almost immediately because the French government asked Germany for an armistice , on 17th . |
| 9 | ‘ Did your grandfather have any favourite hymns ? ’ the priest asked William before the service . |
| 10 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 11 | And so me brother and I , who was a twin , were put into the choir as probationers , like today 's police force , and after twelve months we 'd passed all the necessary tests for the vicar and became chororists with the choir and graduated through it . |
| 12 | His defects were that he lacked subtlety , was vehemently anti-communist to the point where any unrest or dissent might be regarded as a sign of communist activity , and that he lacked preparation for the tasks he faced . |
| 13 | At the age of twenty-two he returned to Ireland and on his father 's advice sought admission to the National Deaf Mute College in America for a degree course . |
| 14 | While Barnes was inspiring the South West , Andrew 's use of boot , brain and vision made ribbons of the Midlands line-out superiority . |
| 15 | Andrew 's use of boot , brain and vision made ribbons of the Midlands line-out superiority and visiting skipper Dean Richards admitted : ‘ He was the decisive factor . ’ |
| 16 | With five minutes left , Deon Oosthuysen made ribbons of the Midlands defence on the right after Theo van Rensburg had committed the midfield with a powerful break . |
| 17 | Distance from Shanariah , coupled with enormous tithes to the Church and the fact that many of the Ixmarite hierarchy owned estates in the district and were therefore friends and neighbours , guaranteed the residents a certain freedom of belief . |
| 18 | He made patterns in the space , first up and down , then diagonally across , always within the open area between the stream and the thicket . |
| 19 | Suzi made patterns in the sugar with her spoon . |
| 20 | Grimsby frustrated Middlesbrough in the early stages with their sweeper system and repeated back passes to their goalkeeper . |
| 21 | so you got mollycoddle in a way , have n't you , so you know you say |
| 22 | Although it was small and its facilities were poor , the standard of learning attained was high , as was illustrated by McJannet in his History of Irvine when he noted that as early as 1729 , the pupils ‘ translated part of a Greek Testament into Latin ; some of the Roman authors into English … and also translated many English sentences into elegant Latin with great dexterity . ’ |
| 23 | These independent structures are then transformed to dependent ones : " After she had swept the room " , etc. , and made part of a complex sentence . |
| 24 | Unix System Labs ' top brass has been meeting with the Russian Minister of Higher Education about getting Unix made part of the curriculum . |
| 25 | International Law so far as this Court is concerned , is the body of doctrine regarding the international rights and duties of States which has been adopted and made part of the Law of Scotland . |
| 26 | DULÉ SKIMMED INTO shore silently , under cover of darkness , and threaded through the banana fronds and mango groves to Ariel 's cabin ; a leaf here , a twig there gave under him , but the English sailor posted watch in the clearing was fast asleep and the others would not have woken from their stone weariness if Dulé had hallooed at them . |
| 27 | Only the later nineteenth-century works are a let-down ; Bonn at obviously lacked pull with the great Impressionists and bought generally insipid work . |
| 28 | Worldwide underwriting losses in Q3 down from $131m to $124.9m — despite losses on Hurricane Andrew' — produced deficit at the nine months down $71.4m from $419.9m ( representing 17.2% of premiums ) to $348.5m ( 13.3% of premiums ) . |
| 29 | The Chicago School employed ethnographic methods of data collection , and produced accounts of the lives of a wide variety of social groups , though with an emphasis on the poor and the deviant . |
| 30 | In a bid to lift the country out of recession Norman Lamont announced boosts for the car industry , housing , the health service and schools . |