Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] in [noun] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they 're ready to go back to the wild , to a special purpose built set in Yorkshire which will be protected . |
| 2 | She never could have done in Europe what she did in New York ; I can not think of an artist who points up this issue more clearly and I can not understand why she of all people was left out of the show . |
| 3 | It was very difficult for a court to say what a reasonable mother would have done in circumstances which were almost hypothetical . |
| 4 | It was very difficult for a court to say what a reasonable mother would have done in circumstances which are almost hypothetical . |
| 5 | The collapse of part of the roof had let in air which intensified the conflagration . |
| 6 | She was afraid she would have a defective child because she had seen in Angharad what could happen in her husband 's family . |
| 7 | No one was permitted to build outside the city wall — indeed it would have been more or less impossible given the sheer drop to the plain — and as a result the ever-industrious Kinsani merchants had expanded in directions which were not forbidden by the law . |
| 8 | Stirling himself was driving a hybrid vehicle that he had obtained in Cairo which became known as the ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ . |
| 9 | I had discovered in Egypt what seemed like a different religion : a thing of unimaginable heights and depths , of light and shadow with none of the vertiginous darkness of which Lili had spoken . |
| 10 | If only she had realized in time what was happening . |
| 11 | It was the trading contacts that he had established in Spain which enabled his firm , after his death , to exploit so efficiently the opportunities afforded in South America after its liberation from Spanish control . |