Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just talk to them , just so short staffed , I do n't know when Jim last got off duty on time |
| 2 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 3 | In capture theories more possibilities open up : the Moon could have suffered its late heavy bombardment as it tumbled through space before capture ; it could have suffered it from debris already in orbit around the Earth or the large basins alone could have arisen from such debris ; or it could have been bombarded by material which entered the Earth-Moon system after the Earth had captured the Moon . |
| 4 | that er , we applied for test of proportionality , the minimum necessary , my Lord this is a , your Lordship 's focus on admission rules which of course different to what we 're concerned with here , admission to the market , erm , and it , it is the minimum necessary to ensure that all those who should be in the market and are capable of competing are in the market . |
| 5 | He applied for job after job , unsuccessfully , for weeks : he was in his early fifties , and this was the era of ‘ too old at forty ’ , let alone fifty . |
| 6 | After a confident start United took the lead in the 17th minute when the elusive Thornley centred for Butt to rifle home a first time shot . |
| 7 | While a student at Edinburgh , Marion Newbigin had come under the influence of J. Arthur Thompson , whom she later succeeded as lecturer in biology and zoology at the School of Medicine for Women . |
| 8 | However , Mr Justice Johnson asked for permission to relist the case because he ‘ became concerned that the length of sentence imposed may have been excessive ’ . |
| 9 | On 22 November Mr Nash of Pampisford ( near Cambridge ) asked for information on pupillage . |
| 10 | ‘ We keep a welcome for all , ’ said Francie in his voice which creaked through lack of use . |
| 11 | Not all early raids were successful and the plan to raid Bayonne failed through lack of information on beach conditions . |
| 12 | ICI , which had set itself a target of recovering 10 per cent of the CFCs it manufactured for use in cooling systems , has blamed lack of co-operation from local councils , industry and commerce for its failure to recover more than 1 per cent . |
| 13 | They were composed in the years of the Exclusion crisis , during which Locke 's patron , Shaftesbury , and others , sought to exclude James , then Duke of York , from the succession to the throne , and argued for government by consent and for the right to religious dissent . |
| 14 | Marx provided the bones of an analysis of marriage as female domestic slavery , although he was personally something of a rearguard romantic ; Weber argued for sex-equality within marriage . |
| 15 | Councillors were told that many businesses looked upon the refuse collection service as one of the few tangible benefits they got for payment of business rates . |
| 16 | Bishop Crowley appointed as Chairman of CAFOD in 1988 . |
| 17 | Despite repeated attacks on Quentovic in the 830s and 840s , for instance , the output of the Quentovic mint , meagre in those decades ( but also in the 820s ) , became large in the latter half of Charles 's reign ; in 858 , the monks of St-Wandrille fled for safety to Quentovic . |
| 18 | Under authority invested in the Minister for Home Affairs , the Act also provided for internment without trial , the imposition of curfews , the serving of exclusion orders against named persons , the prohibition and distribution of certain forms of literature , the banning of various associations and the death penalty for causing or attempting to cause an explosion likely to lead to injury . |
| 19 | It provided for abortion without restriction until the foetus was capable of sustaining life outside its mother 's womb . |
| 20 | If it is allowed to get too hot it also produces dioxin , an unacceptable contaminant in the TCP used for manufacture of hexachlorophene . |
| 21 | In six epileptic seizures were difficult to control ; in four they stopped after treatment with carbamazepine . |
| 22 | As reported on Aug. 23 a $244,000,000 economic aid agreement had been signed with the USA to support the economic recovery programme , $130,000,000 of which would used towards payment of debt arrears . |
| 23 | The five of us ate Jonjoli ( which tasted like seaweed with onion ) and chips and drank lots of Russian Manavi wine and chatted to several rowdy locals , who gave us bunches of flowers and told what they thought about living in Georgia . |
| 24 | THE treasurer of a Darlington community club appeared before town magistrates yesterday charged with theft of club funds . |
| 25 | We were seated downstairs at an inglenook table , ideal for lovers but a bit isolated from the humanity of the dining-room which hummed with mix of city and creative folk sharing confidences about God and Mammon . |
| 26 | Her head beat from side to side and she said , ‘ Yes , yes , yes , yes , ’ again , then Lachlan — wiry , athletic-looking , skinny shanks ramming back and forth like some skinny bull — reached under her , pulled her up , his legs spreading , kneeling ; she hung onto him , arms round his neck , then after a few vertical stabs he threw her down , back onto the bed ; she grunted , arms still tight round his back , then she brought her legs up , right up over his thin , plunging , globe-buttocked behind , until her ankles were in the small of his back , rocking to and fro , feet crossed one over the other , locked there ; with one splayed hand she held onto his back , pressing him to her , and with the other hand she felt down the length of his body , over ribs and waist and hips , and with another grunt reached round and under , taking his balls in her hand , pressing them and kneading them and squeezing them . |
| 27 | They bounced from wall to wall , crossing and recrossing , and the violet light flickered in time with the sound . |
| 28 | However , the idea that archive work might be used in the training of embryo diplomats still surfaced from time to time in France . |
| 29 | Hugh Gaitskell , an economics don and wartime civil servant who was elected to Parliament in 1945 and in six years rose from backbencher to Chancellor of the Exchequer , illustrates with his diary entry for 14 October 1947 ( when he was Minister of Fuel and Power ) just how little impact Attlee 's directive of a year before had had on the performance of individuals : |
| 30 | At the conclusion of the ceremony , shouts of congratulation rose from earth to heaven and the sound of kettle drums of joy rent the skies . |