Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A murmur lifted in her throat like the sound of the wind blowing . |
| 2 | Jed 's heart lifted in his ribs . |
| 3 | Anyway , it has a spacious and homely feeling about it left over from the bad days of British Imperialism , and this is epitomised in my bathroom , which has an enormous ( though now cracked ) Shanks sink , made in Scotland ! |
| 4 | Nevertheless , a close relationship was sustained , each Sunday evening saw the three brothers and their wives and children gathering together at Rachel Cohen 's home in highly convivial mood , Leonard 's grandmother being especially delighted in her firstborn 's firstborn . |
| 5 | His body was young , strong ; last year she had delighted in it . |
| 6 | The Queen delighted in his preaching and made him Dean of Westminster . |
| 7 | Feminists ca n't blame it all on men — since time began , men have delighted in our wobbly bits , thank heaven . |
| 8 | Nonetheless the parties may stand or fall by the evidence as disclosed in their witness statements , although a witness will always be free to give evidence in relation to new matters which have arisen since the statement was served on the other party . |
| 9 | Five double stranded DNA fragments with four base long 5'-protruding ends were designed in which the GGGCCC and the AAAAA motifs were separated by varying number of nucleotides ( Fig. 5 ) . |
| 10 | Milan Station , designed in what one critic called ‘ a megalomaniac delirium ’ , remains a monument to the ambitious and grandiose aspirations of Italian Fascism . |
| 11 | He is more likely to enjoy going to a restaurant that has good traditional furnishings that are well designed in their own terms . |
| 12 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |
| 13 | In both cases this was because they exceeded the 5 per cent minimum threshold in terms of votes won in what was formerly East Germany , albeit not in Germany as a whole . |
| 14 | Yeah she 's won in everything . |
| 15 | Spittals picked up from his desk a silver cup he had won in his youth in the Manchester Bowls League . |
| 16 | Yesterday I won the first competition , I 've ever won in my life ! |
| 17 | Ten copies of the video must be won in our easy-to-enter competition . |
| 18 | and you could be there at Cheltenham on Thursday for the big day … we ’ ve two club badges to be won in our special Gold Cup Competition |
| 19 | It would be quite something to see Flakey Dove and the Price family in here tomorrow … quite something to see you here on Thursday for the Gold Cup … here ’ s your chance … we 've two tickets to be won in our special competition … |
| 20 | ‘ Quite right , ’ the Doctor 's voice crackled in her helmet . |
| 21 | Silk 's voice , metallic , distorted , crackled in his ear . |
| 22 | Nell 's transceivered voice crackled in his headphones . |
| 23 | ‘ Ve-hickle coming , ’ Lucy Cheadle 's voice crackled in his earchip . |
| 24 | Mr Peter Haliday , the district police commander for the area surrounding the Whitehead Detention Centre , Hong Kong 's largest camp for boat people , said the victims were attacked in their sleep by 10 men . |
| 25 | Statistically the chances of elderly people being attacked in their own homes are very low . |
| 26 | He says elderly people are not attacked in their homes very often , but the fear of attack is great and the campaign will help to play down those fears . |
| 27 | The report suggests that the police regard true rape as occurring where one or preferably two of the following criteria are met : ( 1 ) complainer is attacked in her own home by intruder(s) ; ( 2 ) ‘ respectable ’ complainer attacked by strangers ; ( 3 ) complainer is severely beaten up ; ( 4 ) complainer is attacked by assailants wanted by or known to the police for crimes of violence ( especially against women ) ; ( 5 ) assailant uses weapon ; ( 6 ) assailant apprehended at scene of crime . |
| 28 | Ragtime Blues , an eight year old mare , was attacked in her field . |
| 29 | An eighty five year old woman has been attacked in her bed by two men who then ransacked her house . |
| 30 | Dr Elizabeth Howe was preparing to take a summer school when she was attacked in her room by Robin Pask . |