Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] and [vb past] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 1949 he joined the Foreign Ministry and served in London between 1954 and 1962 . |
| 2 | The sequence in hand was apparently quite simple : we met up with another yacht and sailed in company , then came across a fishing boat to whose skipper I shouted , ‘ Have you any fish to spare ? ’ |
| 3 | Nanny 's mother was of French stock and lived in Calais , and her father came from Bishop 's Waltham , a village in Hampshire . |
| 4 | Stuart Piggot , the celebrated archaeologist , was a direct descendant and lived in West Challow . |
| 5 | She broke off , flexed her empty hand and looked in surprise at the cold-beaded glass Belinda had silently taken from her . |
| 6 | What we hope to be able to do is to complete the requirement the staff target this year and set in train some industrial studies to see what the various options are and then once we enter the production investment phase then that would be the time that we would er look to doing the development work . |
| 7 | We all tipped our paper valuables into Chris 's waterproof bag and tramped in mud back to base . |
| 8 | He had been confined to a wheelchair for some time and died in August , aged 41 . |
| 9 | Cornelius chewed upon cold dry toast and watched in disgust as Tuppe tucked into a fry-up of suitably epic proportion . |
| 10 | I think it was Angie and Tony , going back to that incredible support that I told you about when I first met them , that they were also dreamers and had such faith and believed in David 's future and his destiny . |
| 11 | Gustavus III recovered control and became in effect his own foreign minister . |
| 12 | Ace moved out of range of Daak 's left hand and stood in thought for a moment , averting her eyes as the shuttle broke through the cloud cover . |
| 13 | He stepped into the large office and stood in front of the desk . |
| 14 | We passed with never a backward look and arrived in Al Ain in well under three hours . |
| 15 | Or you get freezing cold and covered in mud . |
| 16 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 17 | Party Chairman Tony Picking said today Mr Burge has been ill for a long time and resigned in February . |
| 18 | He missed only a couple of the remaining League fixtures that season and starred in Palace 's superb 2–0 FA Cup victory over Spurs at The Nest , outshining even Spurs ' legendary Arthur Grimsdell on the day ! |
| 19 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 20 | It is not the space that is redundant but rather much of the population which occupied that space and worked in industries now regarded by UK policy makers and commentators as obsolescent and non-revivable . |
| 21 | The resulting crude cell suspension is purified using a Ficoll-Hypaque gradient and resuspended in culture medium . |
| 22 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 23 | They visited the huge Gothic cathedral and gazed in awe at the beautiful Murillos — Saint Anthony and the Immaculate Conception — the stained-glass windows and the many other treasures the centuries had gifted the cathedral with . |
| 24 | Theodora supped the hot sweet Indian tea from the thick mug and turned in answer to Henry Yaxlee 's courteous question . |
| 25 | The volumes , bound in green leather and tooled in gold , were identical in size and fitted the bookshelves so precisely that the effect was more of an artist 's trompe-l'oeil than of a working library . |
| 26 | They came on to the golden sand and stood in silence , winds of light moving over them plainly , despite the brightness of the evening sunshine . |
| 27 | Khieu Samphan , 58 , has a doctorate in economics from the University of Paris , and after returning to Cambodia set up a left-wing newspaper and served in Sihanouk 's parliament before fleeing to join the Khmer Rouge in the bush in 1967 . |
| 28 | Some symbolic interactionists inveighed against the " quantomania " of variable analysis and argued in favour of a more interpretative approach to the study of social life which , for some , was more scientific than variable analysis . |
| 29 | Dering was a scholarly man , who maintained an informed interest in religious controversy and dabbled in literature . |
| 30 | Locke presented to the gullible public lunar vegetation , birds and fantastic animals , such as two-legged beavers that used fire and lived in huts . |