Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The rest of the band we got through friends of friends on the Glasgow scene , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Julian was fond of steaks : we got through jars of mustard . |
| 3 | And , I applied for loads of jobs and nothing ever came back . |
| 4 | Christina asked between bites of crab-cake . |
| 5 | No high scores were found in any country and during the interviews respondents often asked about methods of administering such systems . |
| 6 | • Asked about rumours of his apparently imminent move from his position as managing director of Lotus , Michael Kimberley suggested we ask GM Europe president Bob Eaton , who has responsibility for the sports car maker . |
| 7 | He did this without ever losing sight of the contrasts he made between steps of each sequence because these were controlled by the particular rhythm , tempo and quality of the music . |
| 8 | The composition of any Palestinian delegation remains one of two crucial issues at the heart of Likud 's opposition to the 10 points put forward by President Mubarak of Egypt and devised as clarifications of Israel 's own initiative . |
| 9 | Using SHE as justification , I snooped through drawers of drawers and subjected my chums to a barrage of impertinent questions . |
| 10 | In one class a research team member asked for estimates of his height ( 5′ 7½″ ) ; the estimates ranged from 4′ 3″ to 6′ 5″ . |
| 11 | I asked for details of how well they had maintained their new figures or if , in fact , they had n't . |
| 12 | One member asked for details of how my father had gone into voluntary liquidation . |
| 13 | It was Don who made the effort ; he bought the local paper and looked at ads for houses ; he phoned estate agents and asked for lists of properties . |
| 14 | They passed through fields of barley , now as brightly green as the luminous weed in the stream : through potato patches : through fields of beans and millet and pumpkins as full and red as the morning sun in winter . |
| 15 | They were popular preachers and evangelists — Diego de Cadiz , a Capuchin revivalist preacher , attracted audiences which fought for scraps of his clothing . |
| 16 | This group also argued for measures of economic liberalization and for a clearer separation of the Labour Party from the Histadrut trade union organization . |
| 17 | Vital questions asked after deaths of canoe teenagers |
| 18 | Their thefts of milk , honey , and melons from local household plots he ironically termed as acts of smychka . |
| 19 | Protesting against what they described as years of neglect by the French authorities , young militants among the 420,000-strong community engaged in repeated clashes with police , and some 15 people were injured on July 23-25 . |
| 20 | Then ran and slipped and ran again , past the church , between the dignified houses on the new Bristol Bridge , dodging the tollkeepers who marvelled at her speed , and over to the Welsh Back where horse-drawn sleds wove between towers of kegs , hanks of rope , sprawling sacks and the beached masts of ships , and where she knew she could shrink unnoticed into a warren of warehouses , entries and cellars . |
| 21 | On the other hand , however , Mr De Haan said the company had to put up with what it regarded as disadvantages of being publicly quoted . |
| 22 | In addition , from their position on the moral high ground , they repeatedly denounced many of the leisure pursuits of their neighbours , such as drinking , dancing , and theatre-going , which they regarded as occasions of sin and distractions from religious devotion . |
| 23 | He looked up and stared at his audience with the slightly accusing look he used for classes of students . |
| 24 | Corbett shouted for jacks of ale , demanding they be served the landlord 's best . |
| 25 | The differences Weinrich-Haste found between students of various disciplines were political . |
| 26 | Most charges of seditious words occurred during times of Jacobite scares and tended to be levied at those groups suspected of Jacobite sympathy : Roman Catholics , the Irish , Nonjurors , and the high-flying clergy and gentry . |
| 27 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 28 | Prodded for details of his own guitar tunings , Cooder reveals that he mostly sticks to DGDGBD , a plain open G , or DADF&sharp ; AD , an open D , although he sometimes changes the open G to an open C , or tunes the second string up to make open D into a D6 tuning . |
| 29 | A certain amount of violence occurred between supporters of Rauti and Fini . |
| 30 | Elisabeth wandered between pieces of furniture and medieval sculpture retrieved from farmhouses and churches . |