Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 2 | TOMMY SMITH : ( Liverpool , Swansea and England — 1962-1979 ) : ‘ The minute he got off the coach and walked into the changing-room people would go for cover . |
| 3 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 4 | He got off the bed and walked to the window . |
| 5 | She got off the bed and , opening the bureau , took out a set of handcuffs and some leather-look rope . |
| 6 | She got off the bed and listened . |
| 7 | He got off the bed and went around . |
| 8 | She got off the bed and went to unlock the door without any trepidation , or any other strong emotion . |
| 9 | Now we got off the phone and knowing the man I allowed three . |
| 10 | Jess got off the bench and parted the bushes , peering into the laurel darkness , her heart pounding and her breath coming shallow and fast . |
| 11 | Fearing the worst , the driver and second man got off the locomotive and examined the train and the line side , but could find nothing untoward . |
| 12 | Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset . |
| 13 | Practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train and walked along those roads again was Hairy Back and his dog , the Great Dane . |
| 14 | When they arrived in Milan , the two got off the train and , by coincidence , the first thing they both saw was a blown-up photograph of Penelope Tree . |
| 15 | So Margot got off the bus and the policeman says , now you have to really vigilant today Margot there 's a lot of bombs in Lisburn Right ! |
| 16 | ‘ So my father took him , and he got off the cart and off he went . |
| 17 | The drops of liquid solidified during the fall and were instantly cooled by the water , which also preserved the shot from damage by impact on a hard surface . |
| 18 | Rather , they lived in practical uncertainty , often felt threatened , and then argued about the justice and permanence of the new order created for them . |
| 19 | A few hens pecked between the cobbles and rabbits scuffled in hutches along one of the dry-stone walls . |
| 20 | Aung San got through a message that he was ready to come over to the Allies while the Japanese understood that he would be fighting for them . |
| 21 | Somehow , with gritted teeth , her soul in torment , she got through the day and the night that followed . |
| 22 | The case does , however , demonstrate that , notwithstanding the absence of any actual undue influence and any actual misrepresentation , equities arose between the wife and her husband and , through Mr. Bruce , the wife and the bank that prevented the bank from enforcing against the wife the security she had given . |
| 23 | In the NPN-controlled Niger State in January 1981 , a heated political controversy arose between the governor and the assembly . |
| 24 | He tumbled through the air and stopped . |
| 25 | Within six days , on 3 May 1862 , the young boy died , Benjamin declaring as he applied for a certificate that he had been present at the death . |
| 26 | I even got to the point where I was an approved parliamentary candidate , but I never applied for a seat so I ca n't say I was ever rejected ! ’ |
| 27 | I applied for a job and three people turned |
| 28 | I applied for the post and was interviewed by the headmaster , a man of about my own age who was ‘ mad on Puccini ’ , and consequently thrilled to bits when I recognized |
| 29 | The offer coincided with a move to separate the Cheltenham Schools of Architecture and Art , with which he disagreed , so he applied for the post and succeeded despite his now apparent and debilitating illness . |
| 30 | Image ‘ I would n't mind if it was someone I respected as a player and a hard-man . |