Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] had [vb pp] [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was Desmond , he was young and bright and flattered that a man had come from the Security Service to see him , and agreeably surprised that a Field Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation had ended up in his stockinged feet in his front room . |
| 2 | This paranoid fear of a Catholic insurrection was heightened in 1641 by the news that the Catholic Irish of Ulster had risen up in armed rebellion against the Protestant settlers of that province , and it subsequently became one of the most powerful influences motivating those who took up arms against Charles I in the civil war . |
| 3 | Round it a prolific jungle of weeds had grown up in the otherwise bare yard . |
| 4 | By now , the case of Sumner v. Virgin had dragged on in the law courts for eleven days , with the two parties holding each other up in the centre of the ring like panting heavyweights , while the legal fees gushed forth like blood from the wounds . |
| 5 | A number of statues and sculpture fragments bearing the names of artists from Aphrodisias had turned up in Rome and many other parts of the Empire . |