Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ingledew mansion was going up across the creek on the other side , above the grove where the saman stood and facing west ; Tom had sited his Great House further up the slope , by a magnificent specimen of an Indian fig tree with aerial roots falling like stilts and snaking over the ground below , and had designed a belvedere in the roof to give views to the four quarters . |
| 2 | Now the architect , Halsey Ricardo , had designed a station in redbrick gigantism , providing a dramatic contrast with the syncretic graces of Bombay 's Victoria Terminus . |
| 3 | There was , presumably , a sound evolutionary reason for the fact that no one had yet designed a lavatory in which the occupant faced away from the door , some relic of the time when primitive man was most at risk when at stool , but it did mean that the lavatory user was finely tuned to the approach of strangers . |
| 4 | She said oh no she says your name gone in and you 've er won a weekend in Wales I think , oh what a load of old bollocks they 're coming out with here . |
| 5 | Labour has never won a majority in parliament against a press so tilted against it as now . |
| 6 | But the Republicans also won a majority in the Senate and gained seats in the House . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth , whose coalition government had won a majority in legislative elections on Sept. 15 [ see p. 38427 ] , announced on Oct. 22 that Mauritius would become a republic on March 12 , 1992 . |
| 8 | Danny has n't won a rally in ages . |
| 9 | The former Soviet leader has won a role in the latest Wim Wenders film Far Away So Close . |
| 10 | As well as £2,000 , and a trophy presented by the Duchess of Kent , he has won a place in the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year heats in Brussels in June . |
| 11 | Wells done BOWLS : John Wells , of Hartlepool , has won a place in the prestigious under-25s national indoor bowls championships to be held at Nottingham on February 22–23 . |
| 12 | Among those who received awards yesterday was Claire Metcalfe , 15 , of Thornaby , who has been practicing judo since she was five and has now won a place in the national team . |
| 13 | Keith Bailey , 18 , from Oxton , Birkenhead , has won a place in the national final of the Rotary Club Inventor of the Year competition at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre on November 14 . |
| 14 | They 're celebrating their centenary this year … not much of a party so far … the club are short of money and struggling near the bottom of the table … they have n't won a game in two months … on Saturday they were at home to Yeovil … |
| 15 | Oxfordshire , who have n't won a game in the history of the competition , faced the might of Lancashire , who 've won the trophy five times . |
| 16 | However , minutes earlier , James Sutherland had approached a woman in the street to have an ambulance called for his friend who was inside , the High Court in Edinburgh was told . |
| 17 | ( She had attacked a man in Aberdeen in the mistaken notion that he was Lloyd George : in fact he was a Baptist minister . ) |
| 18 | ’ The concluding words show that a claim to contribution might arise under the Act of 1935 out of tortious conduct committed by two or more persons even though one or both of them may have committed a crime in the course of such conduct . |
| 19 | Angeli , who also was not in court , had committed a fault in selling them to the press last August . |
| 20 | ‘ I have earned a fortune in my time . |
| 21 | After all , when he starred as champion boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , he put on 60lbs and is reputed to have done enough training to have earned a place in the top twenty world middleweight rankings . |
| 22 | What started as ‘ just a bit of fun ’ has now earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 23 | Andrew , who has learning difficulties , is a keen violinist and has earned a place in Banks Brass Band . |
| 24 | It does , however , cover the main theories that have attracted a following in the twentieth century . |
| 25 | Because hypotheses , construed as provisional descriptions of reality , had occupied a place in physics , Copernicus , Kepler , and Galileo transgressed traditional subject boundaries by allowing an astronomical hypothesis this representational role . |
| 26 | REBECCA FOSTER , from Southport , has claimed a place in the Volkswagen National Division Five Tennis final at Telford . |
| 27 | BE PREPARED to take a ribbing from the Scouts , British Telecom — you 've really dropped a gooli in your new advertising campaign ! |
| 28 | That means the Bangor club have lifted a double-double in league championship and cup competition this season . |
| 29 | That means the Bangor club have lifted a double-double in league championship and cup competition this season . |
| 30 | Where by the order a party is first ordered to do the act , and there is then added a clause in the order that in default of so doing specific consequences will follow , the part that directs the act to be done must use one or other of the above forms of wording . |