Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got badly lost in the dinner party scene . ’ |
| 2 | The ceasefire mediated by Kazakhstan on Aug. 28 between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabkah [ see p. 39059 ] produced little respite in the fighting . |
| 3 | The Royal Society had its early beginnings in informal meetings and discussion groups , and became properly institutionalized in the 1660s , shortly before receiving Charters from Charles II . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the outbreak of the War restricted their entry into service , and the new sun saloons which were delivered between August and October , got little use in their first season . |
| 5 | But I said there was a lot lower than you got only passes in your grade . |
| 6 | The details of this illness remain obscure , but in 1693 Newton became sufficiently disturbed in mind for rumours of his insanity to gain widespread acceptance . |
| 7 | Raised in London , he suffered polio in childhood and endured long spells in hospital . |
| 8 | They became so engrossed in their chattering , that they did not notice a customer who came up behind them . |
| 9 | Later that night he became so engrossed in his studies he completely forgot about it . |
| 10 | In March 1982 the Daily Telegraph suggested that ‘ we need to consider why the peaceful people of England are changing … over the 200 years up to 1945 , Britain became so settled in internal peace ’ . |
| 11 | Thus when villages became so reduced in size that they were no longer viable their inhabitants had to move out to nearby larger settlements . |
| 12 | They went more and more slowly , and made long halts in the peat-cuts . |
| 13 | These tendencies became especially marked in the canal mania of the 1790s when , according to an enthusiast in 1796 , " perseverance having vanquished prejudice , the fire of speculation was lighted and canals became the subjects of general conversation " . |
| 14 | Bermuda became extremely vexed in 1973 , when the local Black Power movement ambushed and killed the then Governor , Sir Richard Sharples , and his aide-de-camp in the gardens after dinner . |
| 15 | Oh yes yes er I should say that er Street er Street then you get into Palfrey now you see Palfrey was a little bit less due to the fact that there were a hell of a lot of railway men at work down there , I mean really all belonging to some department on the railway , you get er drivers and all the men and the permanent way of being in Street I mean a lot of people from Palfrey lived down lived in Palfrey was working in the permanent way in Street , so it was a really , Palfrey you could say was a railway community . |
| 16 | We got together to practise in 1985 , and I wanted to do it then , but I do n't really have a drive to do it now . |
| 17 | There is , though , one large disadvantage that became much discussed in the eighties : standard-class seats do not match the window spacing . |
| 18 | ‘ It was really in the 1920s and 1930s ’ , recalls Environment 's Manager Christopher Nell , ‘ that London Underground became highly regarded in the fields of design and architecture . ’ |
| 19 | It found little favour in the United States , where there was however considerable interest in securing some workable arrangement . |
| 20 | Thus the courts have , for example , limited their intervention in cases concerning homeless persons , using arguments concerning the subjectivity of administrative discretion which found little favour in cases such as Tameside considered above ; and they have counselled restraint in circumstances where propositions of law are interwoven with issues of social and ethical controversy concerning the scope of parental rights , while being more willing to intervene where legal issues are intertwined with questions of social and economic choice , as in the Bromley case . |
| 21 | But otherwise the City found little cheer in the results . |
| 22 | The four study populations reported on differ in their dates of birth as well as in their ages , with the oldest study populations being born earliest . |
| 23 | According to the OECD survey , the privatization programme involved little change in management or improvement in efficiency . |
| 24 | Mukddaam marginally interfered with the favourite , Mazag , but drew away to win in the style of a horse with a big future . |
| 25 | As she hurried upstairs to the bedroom , which still seemed to hold Leo 's presence , she tried not to indulge in daydreams that would in all probability prove to be no more substantial than the rainbows she 'd witnessed earlier . |
| 26 | Dot fingered her victory badge and tried not to listen in case it seemed like prying . |
| 27 | She tried not to interfere in her children 's lives . |
| 28 | The apple crumbled away to dust in his hand . |
| 29 | Relations between Modi and Madame Hébuterne became so strained , with Jeanne refusing to give him up and Madame cursing him and his art , that after a time he moved away to stay in the Hôtel Tarelli , 5 Rue de France . |
| 30 | Several countries , especially in eastern Europe , reported further increases in forest damage during 1989 but in others the rate of defoliation appeared to have stabilized or actually decreased . |