Example sentences of "[vb pp] a [noun] in the " 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 | But the Republicans also won a majority in the Senate and gained seats in the House . |
| 3 | The former Soviet leader has won a role in the latest Wim Wenders film Far Away So Close . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ’ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What started as ‘ just a bit of fun ’ has now earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 13 | It does , however , cover the main theories that have attracted a following in the twentieth century . |
| 14 | REBECCA FOSTER , from Southport , has claimed a place in the Volkswagen National Division Five Tennis final at Telford . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | WHEN THE SIGNALS to cease battle had been exchanged , and there had come a respite in the noise , and the smoke was curling lazily into the blue where clouds flocked and billowed , the islanders fell back and took stock of their situation . |
| 17 | How convenient women were , Rupert thought , accepting her offer , the way they were always ‘ just going ’ to make coffee or tea or perhaps had just roasted a joint in the oven or made a cheese soufflé . |
| 18 | I have just rung a colleague in the Electricity Division of the Department of Energy . |
| 19 | I 've not enjoyed a dip in the briny since a little moonlighting I did , some time in the 1500s , when I helped a Greek pal of mine sing some mariners to their doom . |
| 20 | Managers at the giant MetroCentre in Gateshead have reported a lull in the recession as takings continue to soar . |
| 21 | A police force has reported a DROP in the number of reported crimes for the first time in years . |
| 22 | I have also included a flicker in the path of the arrow to suggest that the harder choice was actually contemplated for a while . |
| 23 | Other measures announced included a reduction in the rate of income tax and a further immediate increase in the price of petrol . |
| 24 | She 'd included a sleeping-bag in the luggage she 'd brought with her , so she could manage . |
| 25 | ‘ When you reap your harvest in your field , and have forgotten a sheaf in the field , you shall not go back to get it ; it shall be for the sojourner , the fatherless and the widow ; that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands . |
| 26 | I 'd forgotten a point in the vid adverts for Balbazian steel . |
| 27 | Writing in the British Medical Journal , the researchers said : ‘ The success of the Japanese economy must be considered a factor in the rapid improvement in life expectancy . |
| 28 | The fourth patient required local epinephrine injection in addition to repeated heater probe pulses and was considered a failure in the final statistical analysis . |
| 29 | He 'd got a well-developed sense of self-protection , you know , always carried a gun in the glove-pocket of the car . |
| 30 | There was a real engineer among them , and my suggestion about telephone work had paid a bonus , for he had installed a phone in the hole , and the watchers now had a direct link with New Scotland Yard . |