Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 All the stories I 'd read about him and heard about him from other caddies were true !
2 Now you 've heard about them of course , you must have heard about them .
3 " I 've heard about them in the Owsla .
4 I have n't heard about it for years .
5 The case of the chartered accountant who has just been found guilty of a serious reckless driving offence only came to the Institute 's attention by chance , when an Investigation Committee member heard about it on the radio .
6 Some of you might have heard about it in the press .
7 Or just heard about it from your dad ? ’
8 I think most people heard about it from r.s.s. , but I hope some have come on from TSB .
9 I think most people heard about it from r.s.s. , but I hope some have come on from TSB .
10 ‘ I 'm surprised I have n't heard about you on the grapevine .
11 That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah !
12 Rhino penises can fetch as much as $700 on the open market , while powdered horn is prescribed for everything from high blood pressure to fevers , nose bleeds and insomnia .
13 Under the heading , ’ Other Benefits ’ — uncosted — it said : ’ The further benefits from Nurse Prescribing are the benefits to patients of faster access to some prescription items and the benefits they will derive from additional items prescribed for them by District Nurses and Health Visitors . ’
14 About 60 per cent of self-poisoners take psychotropic drugs that have been prescribed for them in their overdoses ( Hawton et al. 1977 ) .
15 After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him .
16 ( For instance , Kamata [ 1982 ] , in his exposé of Toyota in the early 1970s , suggested that workers who chose not to ‘ empower ’ themselves in this way were punished for it through criticism and smaller bonuses ! )
17 TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties .
18 He remembered their talk together and the bleak picture she had painted for him of her life .
19 He had a picture in his mind of the layout of passage , stairs and landing , a picture unwittingly painted for him by the man who had retrieved his wallet .
20 The chief allotted Sycorax and Ariel three women to attend them , and then turned to face Kit , and traced between them with his staff three circles in the dust .
21 Residents near the Tynemouth Metro station venue had originally lobbied for it to be cancelled .
22 Marjorie left Lizzie 's body at the vet 's and arranged for her to be cremated .
23 She could n't guess why Sandra Kettering in her detailed instructions had arranged for her to be there and for that mistake to be made .
24 He 'd known perfectly well how she 'd react when he 'd arranged for her to be taken on for this play .
25 ‘ That was why , when she showed promise as an artist , my mother-in-law arranged for her to be trained in Paris — and even provided money for the purpose . ’
26 I 've phoned the doctor , and he 's arranged for her to be admitted to hospital for observation , or whatever they do .
27 Russian into business.Market stalls might not hold that much interest for the average Briton , but for Ekaterina Likhoda from Nizhni Tagil in the Russian Urals , ( see below , far right with South Wales Society president Paul Marshall — also pictured on the far left are Ekaterina 's interpreter , Olga Lewis , and Michelle Thomson , owner of the fruit stall ) it was all part of an unusual business-study trip arranged for her by the Institute 's General Practitioner Board .
28 Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions .
29 The splendid packed lunch arranged for me by Major Hal that morning plus the thermos of American coffee made a welcome lunch as ‘ Deemy ’ and I winged our solitary way over the continuous stretches of grasslands , lakes and rivers of Siberia to make a smooth landing at the Russian Air Force base at Irkutsk early that evening .
30 Three years later , he emigrated with his parents to Israel , yet became a frequent commuter to the major musical centres of Europe , where he caught the eye of such musical heavyweights as Edwin Fischer , Wilhelm Furtwangler and ( most especially ) Arthur Rubinstein , who took an immense interest in the young pianist and arranged for him to be represented by his agent , the legendary Sol Hurok .
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