Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a quarter past seven she got off the bus in Bath worrying that he might stand her up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This clash between the old rivals seldom got off the ground in terms of entertainment value , but the more adventurous team won the day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | As one they plunged for the hole in the hedge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 12 | Operation ‘ Winch ’ was launched on 3 April when two Skuas led off the Hurricanes in two flights of six each . |
| 13 | Amaranth , who felt her temper rising , asked about the trailer in today 's True Brit . |
| 14 | Yes , he asked about the schools in the parish as well , and about the situation in and . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | The Manchester United manager swooped for the Frenchman in a sensational bid to solve his goal-scoring problems after failing to lure England 's David Hirst from Sheffield Wednesday for £3.5 million . |
| 17 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 18 | Surely if a charge is made for this service it should be made to District Audit who , I understand , asked for the information in the first place . |
| 19 | The beginning of that evolution is usually dated to the constitution which Solon produced for the city in or around the year 594 BC.Solon 's intervention was itself the outcome of a period of conflict between " the masse and " the notable , according to the account given by Aristotle in The Athenian Constitution . |
| 20 | Like Cobbett , many suffragettes would have said that it was not so much the vote for its own sake that they sought as the improvements in the status and conditions of women which they believe would be achieved as the result of women 's enfranchisement . |
| 21 | They passed through the turnstile in the canal railings and took the gravel path to the porch of the south door , the one to which Miss Wharton had a key . |
| 22 | The seeds tended to be large and heavy and passed through the gut in 13 hours , the passage time inversely correlated with specific gravity of the seeds and had an indirect effect on the distance that seeds were dispersed away from the mother tree . |
| 23 | Elves traditionally date their calendar from the day that Aenarion passed through the flame in the Shrine of Asuryan . |
| 24 | He passed through the archway in the garden wall of Sea House , opening the white iron gate and leaving it open . |
| 25 | At Europe 's largest indoor shopping centre , the MetroCentre , Gateshead , Tyne and Wear , more than 50,000 passed through the doors in the first hour , the first of 130,000 during the day . |
| 26 | Regulars at the hotel share the owners indignation … they say they fought for the flag in the last war : |
| 27 | Portillo , in whom Nigel Lawson saw ‘ something quite out of the ordinary ’ , is the son of a Spanish law professor who fought for the republicans in the Spanish civil war and a left of centre Scottish school teacher . |
| 28 | He is notorious in Islamabad because he argued for the cut-off in American aid to Pakistan , implemented last autumn . |
| 29 | It crept through the partitions in the fence . |
| 30 | Pete says he just wanted to get in the air so he read about the sport in magazines and then got in touch with the association … he says the sport is easy if you know what you are doing but you can pay dearly for your mistakes |