Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | She did have a job with the BBC and someone cared for the child in the day . |
| 10 | Amaranth , who felt her temper rising , asked about the trailer in today 's True Brit . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She expressed her wonder at this and asked for the name in Italian . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Elves traditionally date their calendar from the day that Aenarion passed through the flame in the Shrine of Asuryan . |
| 19 | He passed through the archway in the garden wall of Sea House , opening the white iron gate and leaving it open . |
| 20 | Regulars at the hotel share the owners indignation … they say they fought for the flag in the last war : |
| 21 | He is notorious in Islamabad because he argued for the cut-off in American aid to Pakistan , implemented last autumn . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | One of the town 's freeholders , duly elected , ‘ … gaily attired and gallantly mounted , with a sceptre in his hand , a crown on his head and a sword borne before him , and respectfully attended by all the rest on horseback , rode through the street in solemn state to the Church ’ . |
| 24 | The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action . |
| 25 | The Iraqi leaned to the left and I peered through the crack in the sandbags at the Fattal building , a yellow-painted office block whose window frames had been chewed down to an inch or two by thousands of bullets ; the Christian Phalangist front line . |
| 26 | The outcome , according to Levi-Strauss , is a generalized circularity analogous to that which I described for the relationship in our commercial system between an author and his book-buying reader . |
| 27 | Abdu was now a considerable patriarch who moved about the lounge in the evenings in a splendid white gallibaya which did much to hide his enormous paunch . |
| 28 | Doreen moved about the office in a restless manner , giving the impression that she wanted to talk , yet not knowing how to begin . |
| 29 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 30 | This is reflected in the significant interaction between FSE and SAM found for the change in external locus of control ( χ 2 =8.0 , df=1 ; p=0.005 ) . |