Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRAVE Peter Carman played in goal for nearly an hour during an FA Cup match … with a broken leg . |
| 2 | I arrived in Oxfordshire with only the clothes I was standing in . |
| 3 | We walked in silence to where the car was waiting . |
| 4 | He read in silence for perhaps a minute , and then turned the scroll over to examine minutely the seal on the obverse . |
| 5 | Russell devoted a whole chapter to the topic , where he argued in favour of both the narrow , imposed variety and the more important ‘ constructive self-discipline ’ . |
| 6 | I picked some black carbon fibre frames which had been signed by an Italian designer , made in Japan and retailed in England for over a hundred quid . |
| 7 | He spoke in English with only the trace of an accent . |
| 8 | The speeder froze in mid-air for just a moment , while its computers coped with the sudden assault on the automatic systems . |
| 9 | The Maréchal de Cadenet , a French ambassador on a special mission who stayed in London for only a few days in 1621 , was given by James I jewellery said to be worth £2,500 , while the duke of Buckingham , the king 's favourite , presented him with ponies and four albino falcons , the latter much prized by huntsmen . |