Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It is forbidden for anyone to travel in the guard 's van , " he said . |
| 2 | After a moment , my eye was caught by something lying in the gutter at the base of the parapet , then almost immediately by two similar objects at the opposite end . |
| 3 | Yet if anyone 's patriotism should have been affronted by what happened in the islands , it was the Bahamians , for they were forced to endure the indignity of having another nation 's law-enforcement agencies operating in their waters . |
| 4 | I have certainly heard of it happening in the present day , but the old methods are dying out as people become alienated from the countryside they live in . |
| 5 | But the odds appear to be stacked against him appearing in the Battle of Britain Part II , at Elland Road . |
| 6 | How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience . |
| 7 | But does this not mean that God has to be affected by what happens in the world and that the challenges and frustrations which the world 's freedom continually presents to Him force ever new responses from Him , so that He is continually changing ? |
| 8 | The workings of the Atlantic Ocean are affected by what happens in the Indian Ocean . |
| 9 | In fact , how the rape survivor feels about her experience in the criminal justice process is more likely to be affected by what happens in the police station and then in the courtroom than how it is reported in the press . |
| 10 | Both victims were brought to him limp in the arms of their supporters and their condition appeared dire . |
| 11 | Churchill commented that the " British people would not easily be influenced by what happened in the distant jungles of South-East Asia ; but they did know that there was a powerful American base in East Anglia and that war with China , who would invoke the Sino-Russian Pact , might mean an assault by hydrogen bombs on these islands " . |
| 12 | Insight is like that : the quality of attentiveness must not be spoilt by our getting in the way of it — by the wrong kind of effort or by anxiety and feelings of self-doubt . |
| 13 | The cavalcade stopped and orders were issued for us to rest in the fields around the church whilst Queen Margaret and her principal attendants went inside . |
| 14 | The gold threads and the jewels woven through it sparkled in the light of the lamps . |
| 15 | The letter she had left for me remained in the possession of the police as evidence . |
| 16 | Punctual arrival at the head of the queue which formed up by 9:15 on the January Monday morning meant for him rising in the small hours and manoeuvring a moped along frozen lanes to catch the milk train from Kingham to Paddington , but he never failed to appear . |
| 17 | This sort of liability can obviously only be incurred by someone acting in the course of a business ( a " businessman " ) . |
| 18 | At the same time , the CCA 1974 exempts certain categories from liability here : first , lawyers involved in contentious business ( s146(1)– ( 4 ) ) ; second , where introductions are not effected by someone acting in the capacity of an employee canvassing off trade premises ( s146(3) ) . |
| 19 | The Directory aims to be simple and helpful in keeping potential customers , both in industry and the general public , informed about who to contact in the Agency to discuss its programmes , schemes and services . |
| 20 | Being neighbours of the Celts ( Valerius Maximus explains ) , the Massaliotes had learnt from them to believe in the immortality of the soul , a belief not to be despised , as it was shared by the Pythagoreans : " dicerem stultos , nisi idem bracati sensissent quod palliatus Pythagoras credidit " ( 2.6.10 ) . |
| 21 | They can not , it is submitted — and certainly the plaintiffs themselves can not — be held responsible if , after the documents are returned to them executed in the presence of a solicitor , it subsequently transpires that the addressee has chosen to ignore the counsel that he was given . |