Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Representatives of the government of Papua New Guinea ( PNG ) and the secessionist Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) met for peace talks in Honiara , the capital of the Solomon Islands , on Jan. 22 . |
| 2 | They applied for redundancy payments . |
| 3 | On the other hand , businesses in the Midlands and North which qualified for UBR reductions were now to receive them more quickly . |
| 4 | Coun Carr said Cleveland was the only county in which bus services were provided free to those who qualified for bus passes . |
| 5 | Nilsson , firmly entrenched in her seventies , leaves her native Sweden only rarely nowadays and she never much cared for recording studios . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North asked about prescription charges and whether sufferers from Parkinson 's disease should be exempt from them . |
| 7 | However , he said they only asked about staffing contracts between Ling and the health authority , which were all above board . |
| 8 | He asked about parish organizations as well , did n't he ? |
| 9 | I asked about side effects and was told all drugs have side effects , even paracetemol . |
| 10 | Helen headed for the nearest one and asked about photograph albums . |
| 11 | He stood up , flexed his powerful shoulders and having pulled on a jerkin and breeches , went through to the kitchen , ate a hunk of fresh-baked bread and walked off down the steep narrow hill that led between stone cottages to Mother Russell 's alehouse , where the Pascoe girls earned their living . |
| 12 | Pale moonlight lanced through winter skies , the clouds withdrawing for a moment so that the bleak , whorled stone gleamed silver , reflecting back the cool rays . |
| 13 | We asked for thermometer ratings ( out of 100 ) for how warm people felt towards parties and their leaders . |
| 14 | I also asked for government accounts , and was given the summary of estimates of revenue and expenditure for 1991-2 . |
| 15 | In Madrid workers who asked for union elections were sacked . |
| 16 | They also asked for footpath improvements to protect pedestrians and other measures to minimize disruption . |
| 17 | Roh also asked for trade barriers on certain Korean imports to the European Communities ( EC ) to be removed , while agreeing that the current trade imbalance in Korea 's favour should be rectified . |
| 18 | Shortly before returning their 10-2 majority verdicts , eight members of the jury asked for headache tablets . |
| 19 | It asked for interest rates to be lowered even further . |
| 20 | Security asked for clip-on ties , which are safer in an attack . |
| 21 | SPRINGFIELDS employee Bal Misry has been awarded £2,392 for a money-saving suggestions he made about weld samples . |
| 22 | They fought for land rights and minimum wages . |
| 23 | RSPCA thanks rescuers who fought for pony Rescuers who saved a foal from a watery grave were presented with top RSPCA awards at Darlington Town Hall this week . |
| 24 | It also argued for immigration controls and the repatriation of those immigrants without jobs or qualifications . |
| 25 | She argued for party members to turn their attention to policy and organisational issues in order to meet the challenges of the next century . |
| 26 | Divergent political objectives notwithstanding , the obvious goodwill between Ho and the Americans , the limited but successful training teams that they provided for Vietminh guerrillas , and the obvious sympathy which many Americans — in particular , it seems the OSS — had for the cause of Vietnamese independence , not to mention corresponding doubts of the French title to Vietnam , all of these understandably encouraged the Vietminh in their political objective of the accomplished fact . |
| 27 | The convention laid down provisions for Third World states to benefit from technology transfer and financial aid to help them preserve key areas , and , most controversially , it provided for compensation payments to Third World states in return for extraction of genetic resources ( seen as referring in particular to the exploitation of the gene bank of tropical forests by biotechnology companies ) . |
| 28 | ARGYLL group , which runs the Safeway supermarkets , yesterday headed off market fears of another big cash call by launching a £150 million fixed-rate Eurobond issue , replacing expensive short-term debt with a cheaper long term loan . |
| 29 | Echoes from the last blast bounced off hangar walls and escaped into the vastness of the airfield . |
| 30 | Cakeboards ( 12in ) used as place mats , 85p each , from Divertimenti . |