Example sentences of "in [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rider for the evening ( the biggest ever we can faithfully report ) disappeared in minutes and took its toll on certain partygoers . |
| 2 | He had qualified at university in geology and geography , had tried teaching in Hull but found it too confining and when one of the old guard told him he should be spending more time with children who had some potential rather than those to whom he felt committed , he resigned on the same day . |
| 3 | It was this same Spirit that drove Jesus off into the desert to be tempted after his baptism , that pioneered the mission of the early Church often in the most bizarre , unexpected and ‘ unorthodox ’ ways ; that gripped a man like Philip , removed him from a flourishing evangelistic campaign in Samaria and drove him into the desert because there was one man who needed his help . |
| 4 | ‘ Frank ’ , 26 , lives with his parents in Chelmsford and wrote his 100,000- selling hit in their attic . |
| 5 | Kaiser William II had built up strong forces in Germany and enlarged its naval power to counter the power of the British navy , and it was Germany 's declaration of war on Russia which led to France and Britain declaring war on Germany and the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy . |
| 6 | Someone who has received an object in exchange is like a buyer ; and so is someone who has received it in payment or retained it after settlement of a law suit or obtained it on the basis of a promise otherwise than as a gift . |
| 7 | ‘ I met Drew in Panama and liked him a lot . |
| 8 | Crosby watched the 28-year-old schemer in the seven-goal rout of Partick in midweek and confirmed his interest yesterday . |
| 9 | I met Pat and her minders at a hotel in Cardiff and told her what we had in mind . |
| 10 | The landlord then relented in part and gave her back the keys to the bedsit . |
| 11 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 12 | Molly was a believer in homeopathy and underwent her last operation and subsequent treatment in the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital . |
| 13 | ‘ My husband and I have recently returned from our holiday in Czechoslovakia and felt I must write to say how much we enjoyed it . |
| 14 | During the epidemic of 1854 Dr Snow uncovered the following facts out of 134 deaths from cholera during the first four weeks , 115 of the fatal cases occurred in houses supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company , only 14 in that of the Lambeth Company 's houses , and the remainder in houses that got their water from pump wells or direct from the river . |
| 15 | A squad of armed and masked men had broken into MacCurtain 's home one night in March and shot him dead in front of his wife and children . |
| 16 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |
| 17 | She had been dismayed to find that he must have made enquiries in Helmsley and tracked her down , but she 'd become a much more confident and secure woman since the early days of her marriage . |
| 18 | What 's for sure is it will be a Mega Drama , the day I discover my man has been playing around , because I believe in fidelity and learned its importance the hard way . |
| 19 | This stated that the government had lost the confidence of the majority in parliament and urged it to resign . |
| 20 | ‘ I want to know the identity of a man , I want to reach him , I want to put him in handcuffs and read him a charge of First Degree murder . ’ |
| 21 | My father paid for my digs in Paddington and gave me a pound a week pocket money , together with what he called ‘ travelling expenses ’ for my regular visit home ( home and a good , square meal ) , and to spend some time with Clare who was fifteen and slowly , very slowly , improving . |
| 22 | It had decreed that many years ago , and if they had taken the appropriate rent rises in steps and phased them in , this sudden large rise , which is causing hardship , would not have happened . |
| 23 | Years later , in exile , his former tutor , Augustin Filon , found him leaning against a window of the house in Chislehurst and asked him what he was looking at . |
| 24 | Lancret may have seen Blaise in action and reproduced his image retrospectively . |
| 25 | " Moustachio , " the US intelligence agent who had already visited him in February , returned.He met the Shah in the palace in Rabat and told him of all the dangers that the US systems would pose for him-lawsuits to find his money , congressional subpoenas and demonstrations . |
| 26 | Did you was it you who chose to go and work in Llaneilian or did they send you to work there from ? |
| 27 | In August he crossed to Normandy in force and summoned his sons to a family conference . |
| 28 | The mosquitoes had already arrived in force and made us feel as if one trench was very much like another . |
| 29 | In winter they were often the only ones to see stock in daylight and said they needed to know more about health disorders and their control . |
| 30 | She no longer kept them in cages but allowed them the run of the house and garden . |