Example sentences of "in [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To discover what difference the action project made ( that is , whether it delayed or prevented admission to an institution ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved the physical , emotional or mental well-being of dementia sufferers or their carers ; whether it delayed deterioration in or improved family relationships ; whether it increased , decreased or had no effect on people 's receipt of statutory or other voluntary services ) . |
| 2 | But I would hope to reinscribe all of this knowledge within Gide 's narratives of sexual liberation without surrendering or denying their affirmations — I was about to say tenderness — and to do that in part by acknowledging that it is a knowledge implicit in or enabled by Gide 's own transgressive crossing of some forbidden boundaries . |
| 3 | These are first-person descriptions of social events , written by an individual who was involved in or witnessed those happenings . |
| 4 | Various aspects of the parties ' life , resources , and activities will be helpful to them in the conflict , but many of these are resources and activities that they will have possessed or engaged in or wished to posses or to engage in in any case , even if they did not take part in the contest . |
| 5 | is one at control that you can call back in or destroyed and be replaced by |
| 6 | In addition to the above payments an RFL who is a partner in or held out as a partner in an MNP is required to produce evidence of payment of the appropriate contribution to the Solicitors ' Indemnity Fund . |
| 7 | He called David and I in and said he had read the scripts and thought they were terrible . |
| 8 | And then while I was there she was eating a bit of chocolate cake , I mean she 's right in the kitchen , she come back in and said oh my god , I said what , she said I 've never seen anybody pinch a bit of chocolate cake , on a plate as fast in all my life , Ben did n't want it so she whipped his an' all like . |
| 9 | But still she could not use it until she spent an accumulation of 2 ½ years filling out Ridiculous Redundant Forms from the Grand Canyon 's Department of Ridiculous Redundant Forms Redundancy Department , spent $4,967 in stamps mailing the forms in and had to get a skin graph on her tongue from licking stamps . |
| 10 | These people had been driven from their homes with nothing but the clothes they stood up in and had struggled through a war-torn countryside , sometimes in sub-zero temperatures , to reach a refuge where food , shelter and warm clothing were in very short supply . |
| 11 | At the end of the process , the 13 houses , once inhabited by 200 families , their numbers swollen to 1,000 people by transients who made their way in and slept on the stairways at night , were reduced to lodging 300 or 400 people in 108 rooms , only a quarter of whom were the original tenants , although the rents apparently had not been raised . |
| 12 | So Middleton did two sorties I believe , and on each occasion he brought back an aircraft that was no longer capable of flying and was a write-off , it had so much flak and fighter damage , When the same thing happened a second time I had Middleton in and told him that one of his problems was his navigator who was just not able to navigate him round the very heavy flak areas . |
| 13 | The ostrich dug his head in and believed that there was nobody out there who could notice — and if they did , what did it matter ? |
| 14 | In normal circumstances the men would just have forced their way in and relieved him of the weapon . |
| 15 | I took my Sony from a drawer , slotted a tape in and pressed the record button . |
| 16 | The line was plucking nicely through my fingers and , with my heart in my mouth , I wound the pick up in and struck . |
| 17 | In the end , all the Arab states dug their heels in and demanded refugee repatriation as an essential element to peace , thereby joining Israel in linking the refugee issue to an overall peace . |
| 18 | AN 85-year-old woman was beaten up in her home by a man who tricked his way in and demanded money . |
| 19 | IT 'S NOT easy , in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington , to explain the importance of The Oval cricket ground in Kennington , yet such was my lot when in 1978 , shortly after my family and I had left South Africa following certain differences of opinion with our government , President Jimmy Carter kindly invited my in and asked why we had chosen Britain and not America as our country of refuge . |
| 20 | I got the drinks in and discovered that Dosh and Freddie were flat-sharing in Willesden and were both typists up from darkest Bedfordshire a mere three months before in search of bright lights , word-processor experience and more than six grand a year . |
| 21 | ‘ Sam had brought a couple of trucks of water melons in and stacked them on the sidewalk . |
| 22 | Even the House of Commons stepped in and denounced Middlesbrough for attempting to buy their way out of the relegation zone . |
| 23 | Half carrying , half trailing the inert figure , they reached the factory door , then edged their way in and laid the unconscious form on the floor . |
| 24 | Then they brought food in and laid it inside her shelter . |
| 25 | We went back in and looked some more . |
| 26 | Pietersen , a kindly man , invited the apparition in and made him welcome . |
| 27 | … they brought their homework in and made a list of … aspects like their use of materials , time , care , etc … so they knew what I was looking for , and then I spoke to each child individually and asked ‘ What would you give this piece out of ten ’ and so we obviously had to define our assessment objectives . |
| 28 | I paid Barry the fifteen dollars we had agreed on for a small , black Andean Equipment daysack to keep my new notebooks in and left him selling jewellery to his tour group . |
| 29 | She gave her notice in and left yesterday . |
| 30 | The Select Committee that examined the Bill took a very close interest in and sought several undertakings about groundwater . |