Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second Expeditionary Force was despatched across the Channel to France , but it WAS forced to return to Britain almost immediately because the French government asked Germany for an armistice , on 17th . |
| 2 | so you got mollycoddle in a way , have n't you , so you know you say |
| 3 | ‘ Suits me , ’ agreed Lefevre with a grin . |
| 4 | The interpretation became part of a person 's experience . |
| 5 | A Steamship Owners ' Mutual Protection and Indemnity Association had been formed as early as 1874 which later became part of a North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association , and as early as 1878 shipowners of the north-east were complaining of the " tyrannical " attempts of a " dictatorial body of unionists " ' to impose demands on the industry , establishing in 1885 a Central Association of Shipowners of Sunderland , Glasgow and Newcastle to put their views to the Royal Commission of 1886 on Chamberlain 's proposed Shipping Bill . |
| 6 | Education became part of an act of political will . |
| 7 | Since the Russian Revolution did not spread to the West , Communists became prisoners of a state with pretensions to a universal mission , and their identification with the foreign policy needs of the Soviet Union represented little advance over the subordination of an older generation of radicals to the interests of the City of London . |
| 8 | ‘ Which one ? ’ countered Nessie with a smile . |
| 9 | On a bend of the Colorado river we made camp for a month . |
| 10 | We made camp in a grove of cottonwood trees , about the only available protection from the sun . |
| 11 | And by eavesdropping talk on the terraces and in the pubs , they overheard plans for a pitch invasion like this one at the County Ground last year . |
| 12 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |
| 13 | ‘ I met Harvey in a restaurant , ’ she mused . |
| 14 | Participants also discussed the possibility of launching a major research project on the theme , and made plans for a book on communication and human rights in Africa . |
| 15 | Participants also discussed the possibility of launching a major research project on the theme , and made plans for a book on communication and human rights in Africa . |
| 16 | ‘ Book ? ’ asked Jan with a frown . |
| 17 | Meirion Rowlands , one of the Ashleys ' most key appointments of this time , was well known as the local prizewinning sheep shearer ; he met Bernard over a pint in the pub . |
| 18 | It 's quite conceivable they were involved in it and he met Maria as a result . |
| 19 | Thus , they tabled proposals for a Bill of Rights , an Assembly where they ( the Unionists ) considered the SDLP would have an effective role and an Inter-Irish Relations Committee — avoiding the unmentionable Council of Ireland — representing a formal link between the Belfast assembly and the Dublin parliament . |
| 20 | The Company Patrons have committed their organisations to give the association substantial , planned support over a number of years . |
| 21 | On March 8 , following a visit to CIS states , Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmet Cetin requested support for a ceasefire from the USA , France and the UK . |
| 22 | Warning that his reforms would cause business failures and unemployment , he announced plans for a scheme to put unemployed people to work on government construction projects for a minimum wage . |
| 23 | Beveridge made proposals for a separation benefit , to be paid only in cases of formal separation not caused by the wife . |
| 24 | That made money in a way as important as guns — if they could find enough . |
| 25 | A stout butler led Alexandra across a hall floored in gleaming yellow wood and lined with large dark paintings , and announced her at the drawing-room door . |
| 26 | But it made the situation no easier because Churchill distrusted Temple as a sort of Socialist and as too outspoken a politician . |
| 27 | It is suitable for those wishing to combine a serious business oriented course with a holiday in London . |
| 28 | The court heard the police investigation began last Summer when divers recovered part of a body from a lake in Surrey . |
| 29 | Just a few days later they recovered part of a body from a lake in surrey . |
| 30 | This was partly accidental : he became archbishop at a time when the expansive energies of the Norman conquerors were beginning to make an impression in Scotland , in Wales , and — very tentatively — in Ireland . |