Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although flying is officially banned within a radius of one nautical mile and below 2,000 feet around the station , Dr Ray Seymour , a research physicist from Somerset County Council , produced Ministry of Defence figures which showed that roughly 2,400 flights each year from the nearby Yeovilton air base pass over or adjacent to Hinkley Point . |
| 2 | A member of the Spooner family , connected to Wilberforce by his marriage to Barbara Spooner , became Archdeacon of Coventry with responsibility for Birmingham and had close links to the evangelical Calthorpes , landowners and philanthropists in the city . |
| 3 | A Tractarian , whose work for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel attracted national attention , he became archdeacon of Dorset in 1862 but resigned , through ill health , nine months later . |
| 4 | Malaysia sought support for its initiative in various forums and in November 1971 succeeded in gaining a cautious endorsement for it from ASEAN in the form of a declaration issued by a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Kuala Lumpur . |
| 5 | Baker also sought support for the USA 's opposition to a Malaysian proposal for an East Asian trade grouping which excluded the USA [ see p. 38535 ] . |
| 6 | The HCIMA sought support from all of the relevant industry and education groupings to determine whether this would be supported by all concerned . |
| 7 | This led to elections for a new Constituent Assembly in which the Christian Democrats emerged as the strongest party , had one of their leaders — Georges Bidault — made premier , and were then able to draw up a constitution better suited to their tastes . |
| 8 | But the Euro-sceptics got support from an unexpected source on Monday evening . |
| 9 | Looking back on the community 's experience of opposition , she reflected ‘ If we had got going earlier , and got support from all the locals , if we had n't waffled for ages , and demonstrated properly , and been more vocal — we had difficulty raising money , we just could n't raise money — we would have made an impact . |
| 10 | No , it started at our first show in Glasgow , and then we got support slots with Mudhoney before we were a developed band . |
| 11 | I got support from my sister , but I did miss them . |
| 12 | I also got support from er Labour Labour Party in Leith who sent down two volunteers to help me . |
| 13 | ‘ You mean if I got kind of aroused right now , I should n't fight it or flounder , or try to control it , but just be it . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ There are some really good women writers around at the moment ; Shawn Colvin 's excellent , and so 's a woman called Ferron , although she got kind of pigeonholed into ‘ women 's music ’ , and I think that 's limited her audience . |
| 15 | sort of got kind of an odd relationship between the friends |
| 16 | I 'll bet it got kind of cosy at night ! |
| 17 | One who sought sanctuary was a Milanese noble called Landriani , who was pursued to the columns , but escaped inside the convent . |
| 18 | After a few hundred yards , he sought sanctuary in a nearby house . |
| 19 | This incident proved the danger to Special Forces when they sought sanctuary in a neutral country , for Graham Hayes was shot in a Paris prison in the summer of 1943 . |
| 20 | Indeed it was to escape this commotion of the house that young Tennyson sought sanctuary and solitude in the surrounding countryside , where he could be at peace with all he beheld and find the inspiration for his poetic thoughts which he conveyed to us by his pen . |
| 21 | The District has always held a special place in history and , more recently , is world famous for its links with Dylan Thomas as a place where he sought sanctuary and derived inspiration to perfect his writings . |
| 22 | The other species , more technologically adept , sought sanctuary for their decaying bodies by encasing them in survival suits . |
| 23 | Later thousands of Kurdish refugees sought sanctuary in Turkey and Iran . |
| 24 | On Viola 's approach down the hall , Hilda turned up the gas and made preparation for a hasty departure , but this , it seemed , was not the idea . |
| 25 | Two minutes later Zurich area control centre asked Base whether they had an aircraft flying outbound towards the Hochwald beacon ( ten miles south of the airfield ) as they had an unidentified trace . |
| 26 | It is evident that a relatively small proportion of schools had either chosen or felt able to implement the ISS recommended curriculum and that most schools were not following a broad and balanced curriculum for all pupils . |
| 27 | His defects were that he lacked subtlety , was vehemently anti-communist to the point where any unrest or dissent might be regarded as a sign of communist activity , and that he lacked preparation for the tasks he faced . |
| 28 | Proof of that was to be found in the returns to Parliament during 1826 and 1827 which showed that out of sixty-seven executions ordered against goods only forty produced payment . |
| 29 | In 1977 they produced Curriculum 11–16 . |
| 30 | Demonstrating the Mapple hinged conduit , which made inspection easier . |