Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun prp] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cheer on landing in Perth told its own story . |
| 2 | Only when Charles Hedley drew opposite on his way to work in York had he realised it was a body . |
| 3 | She finishes in August did you say ? |
| 4 | The first new group to appear in Lauchhammer called itself Environmental Forum . |
| 5 | Even the large landowners living in Madrid prided themselves on their interest in their tenantry . |
| 6 | For example , a group of people I studied in Madagascar changed their marriage system in response to changing economic circumstances but did not adjust their kinship terminology [ Bloch , 1975 ] . |
| 7 | But before I went to Luggnagg , an official I had met in Lagado persuaded me to visit the small island of Glubbdubdrib . |
| 8 | A BRITISH soldier shot in Bosnia thanked his Courtaulds-made helmet for saving his life . |
| 9 | As has been seen in Chapter Three , the high densities at which the layout was built in Britain reduced its aesthetic appeal . |
| 10 | More than two thirds of people surveyed in Gloucestershire said they were dissatisfied that the offender involved had been cautioned . |
| 11 | DELEGATES to the International Coffee Organisation meeting in London said they expected to begin drawing up a framework within which economic clauses could eventually be reintroduced into the agreement . |
| 12 | On Nov. 16-17 EC Agriculture Ministers meeting in Brussels reaffirmed their confidence in MacSharry . |
| 13 | Maybe the fact that a new college had recently been opened in Sydney meant there were more vacancies . |
| 14 | The commander of the unit of Russian ( formerly Soviet ) Internal Troops still based in Tskhinvali made it clear , however , that the " volunteers " would not be allowed to mount attacks against Georgian villages , and that his forces were there " to prevent the Georgians and Ossetians … from drawing one another into a war " . |
| 15 | West Star , an aid agency based in Gloucestershire drove its latest batch of supplies to former Yugoslavia by coach , instead of lorry , hoping to fill the seats with children on the way home . |
| 16 | A Briton known to leaders of a charity based in Northampton discovered them and fled with them to the relative safety of Split . |
| 17 | He asked me whether I was a country person I asked what the qualifications were he said country born and bred , well I was born in Liverpool spent my childhood and early adolescence in rural Nottinghamshire , moved to Highfields , emigrated to the West Indies and now live in sub rural Blavey so I do n't know whether I qualify as a country person or not , but I 'd like to bet that I 've milked more cows by hand than he has if that 's any qualification . |
| 18 | Dr Ursula Blackwell , who had been born in India interested me . |
| 19 | Later the white people who settled in Texas named them bluebonnets . |
| 20 | But Ireland 's new track queen Sonia O'Sullivan also has her eyes set on the prize , and she has the taste for mega-bucks after her 3,000m win in Brussels earned her four one kilogram gold bars worth about £33,000 . |
| 21 | We got ours in 1956 , and the filmed reports of the Hungarian uprising and of its refugees arriving in Britain gave me my first image of dramatic world events . |
| 22 | A Romanian traveller arriving in Yugoslavia said he also heard of protests yesterday in the cities of Craiova and Suceava . |
| 23 | The answer on this subject that I gave in November made it perfectly clear that the decision is mine and nobody else 's . |
| 24 | The only US Senate seat at issue , in Pennsylvania , was won by the Democrat Harris Wofford , who overcame an early 44-point opinion poll deficit to take 55 per cent of the vote against Dick Thornburgh , a former two-term governor who had in June announced his resignation as Attorney General in order to enter the contest [ see p. 38279 ] . |
| 25 | The Communist Party ( PCP ) , which had in August declared its approval of the attempted coup in the Soviet Union , lost nearly half its seats , obtaining only 8.8 per cent of the vote and 17 seats on a joint platform ( the United Democratic Coalition — CDU ) with smaller leftist parties . |
| 26 | The former chairman of the board of governors of Longlands College in Middlesbrough is a quietly spoken man , who when he was elected in November said he was determined to serve all the people of Langbaurgh , whether or not they had voted for him . |
| 27 | We have seen that during a period of twenty years between the wars , town planning in Britain consolidated its position in local authority practice , consultant advocacy and professional solidarity , though little was achieved by way of addition to intellectual content or method . |
| 28 | ‘ Working in Malawi allowed me to witness the commitment of that small country to its wildlife . |
| 29 | In 1790 a great meeting of tanners held in London elected him to speak for them to the prime minister , William Pitt , concerning the distressed state of the tanning trade ; and in 1793 he wrote to parliament on behalf of Bristol tanners to suggest remedies for the scarcity of the oak bark used in tanning . |