Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | What an awful confusion of overwhelming feeling for someone well advanced in years to be coping with . |
| 2 | Not a partnership — strangely for someone so set in his own ways , Ken would be willing to do as he was told , as far as work was concerned . |
| 3 | Of course , apocryphal stories only proliferate about someone widely held in great affection ; and in Runcorn 's case the reason for the affection is not hard to find . |
| 4 | It was five or six minutes later that Piladu appeared on the mountainside , stared at them for sometime and then tramped slowly towards them tightly wrapped in his hooded cloak . |
| 5 | In 1982 electricity utilities cancelled 18 nuclear power stations , some of them well advanced in construction . |
| 6 | As a consequence of this research historians know very well the variety of factors which led to the dispute — many of them already outlined in the earlier sections of this chapter . |
| 7 | Hundreds of thousands of them simply abandoned in so called orphanages . |
| 8 | In exchange , many goods came into the country — some of them never seen in Britain before . |
| 9 | Dickens 's social origins were lowlier than those of anyone in the Movement , by a mile : not one of them ever worked in a factory as a child , as he did , or even as an adult . |
| 10 | He did not acknowledge Conroy , but hurried on down with that glazed look of someone already encased in their next entrance . |
| 11 | There was a glint of something half buried in the mud , and Redpath extracted a cartridge , unfired , with bullet and cartridge case complete . |
| 12 | A mate of mine actually worked in |
| 13 | Martin pressed himself back into the burial plot , his fear of it temporarily forgotten in the face of this new terror . |
| 14 | In 1982 the total stock of that investment in Africa was estimated at about $13 billion , with over half of it still concentrated in the production and export of primary commodities . |
| 15 | The former Highland League player , who also played for Leicester City , Motherwell and Rangers , is now in the midst of his longest run in the first team at Tynecastle . |
| 16 | This is a startling remark , but it is delivered as a matter of course , and Ross ( 1777–1856 ) , a naval officer and eventually an admiral himself , is unlikely to have been mistaken about something generally known in the service at the time . |
| 17 | All the resentments which were latent in him now fused in an outright rejection of the system which had brought the country to its present state . |
| 18 | In 1928–29 he was an ideal supplier of chances for Len Griffiths and Harry Havelock , while also providing 10 League goals himself from 16 appearances ( including a hat-trick at Brighton just before Christmas ) and helping the Palace to their best run in the FA Cup for years . |
| 19 | The law , similar to one already introduced in Estonia , has angered many thousands of Russians who have moved into the republic in recent years . |
| 20 | Banking stoppages begun in February resulted in agreement on April 4 on a 5.4 per cent pay increase , backdated to Feb. 1 and applicable for 13 months , plus a one-off payment of DM |
| 21 | In flood conditions , the entrance is submerged ; in any weather , this is certainly not an adventure for anyone not experienced in the terrors and hazards of subterranean exploration . |
| 22 | driven by anyone not named in your policy schedule and your certificate of motor insurance : |