Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 2 | At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up . |
| 3 | It got off the ground in Berlin in 1982 despite an atmosphere of increasing pressure on funds for all forms of higher education in Berlin as elsewhere in West Germany . |
| 4 | This clash between the old rivals seldom got off the ground in terms of entertainment value , but the more adventurous team won the day . |
| 5 | The Prussians were horrified to learn that in Pomerania and Danzig the surviving Polish nobility were reluctant to work for the new authorities and much preferred to lease out their estates to tenant farmers while they lived off the income in Warsaw . |
| 6 | General Lu Han had 180000 troops with him and they lived off the country in the traditional Chinese manner , looting and exporting industrial plant to China . |
| 7 | The third narrative tells how George Meredith modelled for the corpse in the painting and how his wife then ran away with the painter ( see also the sonnets in Meredith 's Modern Love ) . |
| 8 | Damian asked during a lull in their lovemaking on the second day . |
| 9 | He fought as a banneret in the first Welsh war of 1277–8 , visited Gascony and Paris on Edward 's business in 1278–9 , and fought again in the second Welsh war of 1282–3 . |
| 10 | Without Coleman 's knowledge , and without consulting the DIA ( on this basis , they had no reason to do so ) , either Hurley or Dany Habib had subsequently used those papers — in particular , the copy they had taken of Coleman 's Thomas Leavy birth certificate — to obtain a passport for one of their own people in Egypt , thus cocking the trigger for a possible violation alert when Coleman also applied for a passport in that name two years later . |
| 11 | The details of the case were outlined by prosecuting solicitor , Huw Evans , who applied for a remand in custody until next Monday . |
| 12 | He applied for a post in the service of the archduke : but Ferdinand was advised by his mother not to burden himself with such ‘ useless creatures who travel around all over the place , like beggars ’ . |
| 13 | After reading a letter about youths and unemployment , the gist of which was their unwillingness to work , I was incensed by the statement , ‘ Even if they applied for a job in the catering industry , it would be something ’ . |
| 14 | As one they plunged for the hole in the hedge . |
| 15 | John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April . |
| 16 | Naykene had written an article in which he alleged that all members of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council , which ruled for a period in 1979 , had benefited from an illegal foreign loan . |
| 17 | But while Francis and Mary fussed about the situation in Edinburgh , setting up an enquiry into what had happened to the burgh council , in February 1560 the Protestant lords did something ideologically much less courageous than their deposition of the regent , but in practical terms infinitely more crucial : they made the Treaty of Berwick with England , and were assured of English help . |
| 18 | In the same year , Percy Shelley and Edward Williams drowned when the Don Juan sank in the Bay of Spezia , and Clairmont cared for the widows in the first few weeks . |
| 19 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 20 | He was not accepted into the department of meteorology but registered as a student in the department of mathematics , where he wrote a doctoral thesis on ‘ The Theory of Development in Dynamical Meteorology ’ . |
| 21 | Operation ‘ Winch ’ was launched on 3 April when two Skuas led off the Hurricanes in two flights of six each . |
| 22 | Amaranth , who felt her temper rising , asked about the trailer in today 's True Brit . |
| 23 | Yes , he asked about the schools in the parish as well , and about the situation in and . |
| 24 | Is he aware that , when I asked about the growth in employment in south Derbyshire recently , I was told that figures were available only until 1989 , that they are collected only once every six years and that figures for self-employment are collected only once every 10 years ? |
| 25 | Mr Rushdie succeeded for a while in obscuring these inter-Muslim differences . |
| 26 | He qualified as a barrister in 1980 and within a year was an attorney-at-law in commercial insurance litigation which he claimed was making him £500,000 a year . |
| 27 | Geoffrey Reginald Giles was born at Coventry on Dec 17 1936 and educated at Bablake School , Coventry , and Manchester University , where he qualified as a doctor in 1960 . |
| 28 | He went on to Westminster Hospital Medical School , where he qualified as a doctor in 1954 . |
| 29 | He qualified as a doctor in 1946 and became a Master of Orthopaedic Surgery in Liverpool in 1953 . |
| 30 | Yes my Lord er you can see that er on page one in paragraph one two , he is a partner in a firm of he qualified as a solicitor in nineteen seventy three and became a partner in nineteen seventy six and since qualifying , so that er some twenty five years ago , he has dealt primarily with commercial and residential conveyancing and his contained in paragraph one and three er he 's been asked to advise on the extent of the duty of professional care and skill in relation to Mr financing the transaction and the extent to which they were under an obligation to advise Mr of any opportunity to rescind . |