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Example sentences for "obtained the"

  • However, as I pressed the matter, I obtained the account.

  • In the work itself I obtained the experience.

  • And so after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

  • It was necessary, however, that I obtained the captain's permission, and I went to him and explained my ideas.

  • He obtained the money by levies upon the population of Avignon.

  • Obscurity, disguise, concealment furnish the best conditions for their vigor and diffusion, and these favoring conditions we have for centuries past accorded to venereal diseases.

  • Balzac spent his life toiling at his desk and carrying on during many years a love correspondence with a woman he scarcely ever saw and at the end only spent a few months of married life with.

  • Footnote 15: To find the proofs of his enthusiasm for Rome, I need only request that the reader would open, by chance, either Petrarch, or his French biographer.

  • Working still further, I obtained the concurrence of the Jesuits; and made the Pere de Trevoux our partisan.

  • As a last ally I obtained the co-operation of the Marechal de Boufflers.

  • He entered the service of Spain, distinguished himself in the army, obtained the support of the Prince of Orange, and ultimately rose to the very highest influence and prosperity.

  • Borin, with great trouble, obtained the consent of Lauzun, and brought about a second journey to Bourbon for him and Madame de Montespan, with the same pretext of the waters.

  • That it obtained the applause of Voltaire must be ascribed to the fact that it was written in accordance with the rules of French classical drama.

  • Francis Van Blomen was a less finished artist, and from the hot and vaporous air of his pictures, obtained the name of Orizzonte.

  • Lami refers to a legend of the 14th century of the Madonna dell'Impruneta, where they are said to be the works of a Florentine of the name of Luca, who for his many christian virtues obtained the title of saint.

  • Of a gentleman of Picardy who was enamoured of the wife of a knight his neighbour; and how he obtained the lady's favours and was nearly caught with her, and with great difficulty made his escape, as you will hear later.

  • By a coalition with Pompey--now obliged to treat him as an equal--he obtained the consulship (B.

  • Besides the laws above mentioned, he gave power to the Areopagus to inquire from what sources each man obtained the necessaries of life, and to punish those who did not work.

  • If others who had not the right obtained the bread, they and their property were placed at the service of the bakery (pistrini exercitio subjugari).

  • The regent was astonished at his boldness; but he obtained the post, having in one morning received all the clerical orders, and, a few days after, the archbishopric.

  • In 1839 he obtained the "Grand prix de Rome," and soon afterwards left for Italy.

  • This he was fortunate enough to find at the Theatre Lyrique, where he obtained the privilege of presiding over the kettledrums at a salary of 65 francs a month.

  • There he obtained the assistance of two vessels, beside the Cumberland, a colonial schooner of 29 tons.

  • The attorney-general resigned is appointment; and shortly after, as a judge, obtained the object of professional ambition.

  • Bromley, the surgeon of the first fleet, subsequently made seven voyages to the colonies, when he obtained the appointment.

  • The people who heard him and saw the wonderful works he performed, obtained the understanding of the four great principles.

  • After a short stay up there, he obtained the deliverance.

  • He listened to it with great attention, and, at the end of the discourse, he obtained the state of Thautapan.

  • He was satisfied with announcing the law; and countless beings, both among men and Nats, obtained the deliverance.

  • After further instructions he obtained the science of Rahanda.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    added quickly; ancient lineage; and this; bursting shells; famous victory; highly magnified; kneeled down; labour would; lesse then; little something; obtained from; obtained leave; obtained mercy; obtained only; obtained the; outer layer; peine forte; plain round; prevented from; promissory note; soda dissolved; stage coach; stir until the sugar; thoroughly mixed; when turned; working power