Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 2 | The Phoenicians , and in particular the Carthaginians , are still given pride of place in our handbooks for their institutions and their colonization because the Greeks recognized themselves in such things . |
| 3 | The Sunday Times summarized it in these terms : ‘ Iraqi whirlwind campaign ends in war of desert trenches . ’ |
| 4 | And the third was as a confessor , because he knew that many souls valued him in this work . |
| 5 | It is strongly argued by Rubinstein ( 1976 ) and others that establishment institutions revitalised themselves in this period to absorb and assimilate the new capitalists into older values and older structures of influence . |
| 6 | police took him in that night cos they thought he 'd burnt it out himself . |
| 7 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |