Example sentences of "in [noun] [conj] [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working for ICI enabled him to join their club at Norton Hall where a single croquet lawn has been in existence and played on at least since the end of the 1939–45 War . |
| 2 | It is staffed by a dozen officers working in shifts but supposed eventually to have three times as many . |
| 3 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 4 | So she went and bought some in Lincoln and came back the next day and got down on her knees and cleaned it all up . |
| 5 | ‘ I noticed a teaching job in Sheffield that did n't look too bad . ’ |
| 6 | The works of Trubar and his collaborators were printed in Germany and circulated not only amongst Slovenes but also amongst Croats and Serbs . |
| 7 | Philip Head , Chief Executive of the WDA , said it was the first time the agency had been asked to source Welsh suppliers for a company based in Germany and resulted directly from the WDA campaign to build business links with the motor regions of Europe . |
| 8 | He was arrested in Middlesbrough and charged jointly with Michael Hunt , managing director of Nissan UK , the company 's finance director Frank Shannon and two others . |
| 9 | I got it second-hand from a foundry in Sunderland that closed down last year . |
| 10 | Backhouse was another Darlington man who founded a bank in Sunderland and collected prodigiously his work , donated to Sunderland Museum in 1907 runs to 11,000 specimens of butterflies , molluscs , birds and plants . |
| 11 | They had interviewed a man from Bombay who claimed to have a degree in physics but turned out to be a defrocked dentist , and they had nearly offered a job to a man from Sri Lanka who seemed to know everything about the school apart from the fact that it was supposed to be for Muslims . |
| 12 | The Quins , previously at ease , fumbled and fretted in defence but held on . |
| 13 | Throughout the '80s he had been a tower of strength as the last line in defence and had single-handedly reversed the image of the inept Scottish keeper . |
| 14 | The match was finally settled two minutes into extra time when St Albans won possession in defence and broke quickly . |
| 15 | Meridian won possession in defence and broke very quickly , allowing Dave Higson to score into an open goal and give Meridian a crucial lead . |
| 16 | She lived in Jesselton and did n't come back to school in England because her mother is a teacher and educated Anne at home in what seemed to me a rather rough and ready fashion . |
| 17 | But if PRP substitutes for existing pay , it is rarely going to be practicable for the employer to pocket the whole of the saving , since this would imply not only a reduction in the employees ' gross pay , but also an element of risk in remuneration that had previously been assured . |
| 18 | Teesdale turned in horror and came out at once , his face grey with fear . |
| 19 | Subsequently two foresters had attempted to arrest a townsman in Colchester and had accidentally killed him , whereupon the bailiffs and townsmen had arrested and imprisoned the foresters . |
| 20 | The Family Reunion , about which he had spoken in his letter of 30 December had opened in March and lasted only five weeks . |
| 21 | Michael Manley , who had resigned as Prime Minister for health reasons in March and had also been replaced as leader of the ruling People 's National Party ( PNP ) [ see p. 38808 ] , gave up his parliamentary seat in mid-April . |
| 22 | Couples took over as the American No 1 at the Bay Hill Invitational in March and stayed there , although he admits it was a struggle . |
| 23 | She gained the best School Certificate results at her school in Norfolk and went on to take science subjects for Higher Certificate . |
| 24 | In the 1960s some firms started investing abroad in forms that linked together production , trade and finance . |
| 25 | We also hired a speedboat in Ipsos and powered up the coast for a beautiful view . |
| 26 | On June 4 Soviet troops surrounded the parliament building in Vilnius and set up checkpoints in the city , raising fears of a forced takeover . |
| 27 | In London she settled in Highgate and ventured out from there on the variation of the Grand Tour that beckoned for the young in Europe in the mid 1960s : Paris , Rome , Turkey , Lebanon , Jordan , Tunisia , and across north Africa . |
| 28 | After a supper of pea soup — ‘ One pea each , ’ the duty corporal quipped — and bully beef , he was quartered — and learning new words by the minute — in a large gymnasium that temporarily housed four hundred beds , each a mere two feet in width and set only a foot apart . |
| 29 | I recently lost three stone in weight and wondered how else I could improve myself and I was lucky in that I had had a mastectomy for a cancer about seven years ago , so I went ahead and had breast reconstruction . |
| 30 | Oh , come on , Robyn , ’ he added , when she shook her head in disbelief and looked away . |