Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I joined Dateline then and went out with one person I met for two years , but then I moved away with my work . |
| 2 | Responding to the resolution , the Prime Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met for preliminary talks in the Georgian capital , Tbilisi , on March 30 . |
| 3 | On average , we met for three hours every ten days , constantly revising , exchanging and criticising so that in the end we had both had a hand in everything . |
| 4 | We said nothing after that , except to nod goodbye when Tom got off two stops ahead of me . |
| 5 | Donna got off two shots before he crashed into her . |
| 6 | I was glad of my stout walking boots as I squelched through bossy bits . |
| 7 | The two-year course was introduced in 1844 and endured for 32 years . |
| 8 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 9 | At Sudeley ( Glos. ) , for instance , which Gloucester held between 1469 and 1478 , the key offices went to John Huddleston junior of Millom , initiating a family connection with the county which endured for several generations . |
| 10 | This I endured for several months , having no spirit even to complain . |
| 11 | However the author got through 3182 lines without mentioning Christ , or salvation , and yet without saying specifically that his heroes , including the kind and honest figure of Beowulf himself , were damned — though he must have known that historically and in reality they were all pagans , ignorant even of the name of Christ . |
| 12 | No forty pints in two like Saturday afternoon and Saturday night , Sunday afternoon and Sunday night , he got through forty pints or perhaps just under forty pints but that 's it . |
| 13 | And er fo for that reason , er you know , Lady got through three fortunes , and I think she di died with a few hundred pounds in the building society , and if you get the timing right , that 's the way to do it . |
| 14 | Well we got through several toasters in a year . |
| 15 | He soon got through 90 guilders , which his father thought an excessive amount . |
| 16 | And you know they ca n't go , this one ca n't go earlier than that one because we 've got the sequence and so if we got through these steps , I think that those steps are the same steps that we go through on any project . |
| 17 | He got about fifty yards up the road , stopped , turned towards me and said , ‘ I hear you 're looking into my affairs . |
| 18 | We got about six sentences too deep in our conversation for her to institute personal questions about my background , without appearing offensive ( she had to treat me as a person now and not a peon ) , even for Asians who delight in asking pertinent questions as to age , income , etc. , unthinkable for more backward Europeans . |
| 19 | We got about twenty minutes away from the house and the phone starts ringing |
| 20 | So I got about twenty records , ten packets of tea , Tropic of Cancer and On the Road , and the plays of Tennessee Williams , and off I went to live with Eva . |
| 21 | We got about twenty panels at work and on the panel there 's a little plastic thing stuck on and it needs four keys and one . |
| 22 | And he got about 30 inquiries a day . |
| 23 | You got about seven hours tonight I 'll tell you about it . |
| 24 | Episcopal elections were not always peaceful , especially if tension arose between influential families or groups . |
| 25 | Disputes often arose between various parishes and during the reign of Henry VIII there was a dispute between Henry Johnson , Vicar of Halling 1534–45 and John Wildbore Master of Strood hospital , concerning the proportion of tithes each should receive . |
| 26 | For England and Scotland , it was decided that the agency for purchasing development land should be local government ( thus avoiding the inter-agency conflict situation which arose between local authorities and the Land Commission ) . |
| 27 | In 1988 , disputes arose between British shipowners , who proposed to introduce changes to existing terms and conditions of work for their employees , and the National Union of Seamen . |
| 28 | Sarah schemed for several weeks before daring to put forward a proposal . |
| 29 | The two met through mutual friends four years ago , but it was only in March when they decided to get married . |
| 30 | After all , most of the Gujerati women I spoke to I met through English classes they attended , through workmates and mutual friends , not through social workers and community workers . |