Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw you there when I got off the airport bus . ’ |
| 2 | The tall dark girl got off the London train and as she passed through the barrier at Stowerton station she asked the woman collecting tickets where she could get a taxi . |
| 3 | But the older men — forty and upwards — they got off the side walk and paced up and down the road — deferential . |
| 4 | The nursing staff said she got off the delivery table herself , and could not understand why she was ordered back to bed . |
| 5 | Here are some pointers on how to go about the writing task : 1 . |
| 6 | But have you heard about the metamorphosis demonstration out on the main plaza ? |
| 7 | have you heard about the wallet fiasco ? |
| 8 | We 've heard about the Education Area , but there is one very important unit that works largely in the wider community , and that is the Centre for Continuing Education . |
| 9 | Some members of the school first heard about the ESSE/L Project " on the grapevine " through contacts with one of the Major Project schools , and through the school librarian 's contact with the DCSL . |
| 10 | " You 've heard about the telephone call to Mrs. Bidwell , of course ? " |
| 11 | Sir Leon told the assembly that although Brussels was aware of the dissolving of the Enimont joint venture , the Commission had not heard about the court ruling . |
| 12 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 13 | Has n't he heard about the greenhouse effect ? |
| 14 | He had heard about the Funnell family and the old matriarch when Doctor Rice was giving him a lightning summary of the patients . |
| 15 | However , she did not realize that the old lady had never even heard about the family connection . |
| 16 | At the same time , hundreds of workers in the Midlands plants who had heard about the Pier Head meeting on the grapevine now decided to drive up to Liverpool to influence the return to work vote . |
| 17 | Changes must be made to the attack for the first Test at Old Trafford next month but pacemen Andy Caddick , Paul Jarvis and Chris Lewis now have just one more chance to prove they should remain for the Ashes opener . |
| 18 | The majority of opinion reports from the SD and other agencies of the regime reaching the Nazi leadership point nevertheless towards conclusions about the impact on morale similar to those we have witnessed for the Schweinfurt area . |
| 19 | Piecemeal drainage and reclamation in the Cambridgeshire fens , carried out by Saxon farmers around Wisbech and Elm , have been traced through the detective work of archaeologists , using aerial photography and careful analysis of the evidence on the ground . |
| 20 | The survivors were mostly younger sisters , but the striking thing about the teenage girl compositors traced through the CECOS Report , was that they tended to be the eldest children of large families . |
| 21 | ( Of course , for my friends to stand a chance of receiving any correspondence from me means that I either have to wait for the guilt level to rise sufficiently ( which is a slow process ) , or to unearth other things to put on my list like ‘ Install central heating ’ and ‘ Decorate bathroom ’ . ) |
| 22 | The visitors did n't have long to wait for the opening goal . |
| 23 | The part has an enlarged on-chip primary write-back cache rather than the write-through cache of the 80486 , which means that the CPU does not have to wait for the cache controller to copy stored data back to main memory . |
| 24 | There was full consultation between family heads at each stage of the project and only a handful of families , mostly shop-owners , opted to wait for the Government supply which reached Perteguhan 18 months later . |
| 25 | Although nationalists could express themselves freely in cultural terms , their aspiration for a united Ireland would have to wait for the ballot box to decide . |
| 26 | We will have to wait for the Donaldson report , which covers the whole country . ’ |
| 27 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 28 | Coun Williams added local disabled groups were consulted during the planning stage of the scheme and would benefit from it along with the elderly and parents with pushchairs . |
| 29 | In Japan , there had been criticism that Japanese officials were not adequately consulted during the Gulf crisis . |
| 30 | As one of the Trust 's honorary Vice Presidents he was closely consulted during the rebuilding process , with particular reference to the task of manufacturing the Caprotti gear and decision to fit a Kylchap blastpipe . |