Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His marriage has collapsed and he lives in the south of England with his two sons . |
| 2 | Traditional teaching of English literature has been attacked because it creates in the pupil a mood of passivity , an instinctive submission to authority . |
| 3 | To questions about tax and public services , the public responded as it did in the days of Thatcher : by denying her creed of the Rich Samaritan and countering with approval for self-sacrifice and public services . |
| 4 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 5 | One of the things we said the worst training session can be is going over stuff that I already have done , already known , what training have I received that they received in the past ? |
| 6 | Otherwise candidates which are acceptable may be rejected because they do not occur in the source , and alternatives which are not acceptable may be accepted because they appear in the source and provide a good fit , even though they are not characteristic of the material being processed . |
| 7 | With a few minor amendments ( such as the deletion of paragraph numbers and cross-references to the relevant numbered paragraphs in earlier chapters ) they are presented as they appeared in the final report . |
| 8 | But insolvency again intervened and he died in the Fleet prison in 1683 . |
| 9 | It is thought that they developed in the oceans , possibly as a result of chance combinations of atoms into large structures , called macromolecules , which were capable of assembling other atoms in the ocean into similar structures . |
| 10 | The date of its founder , Zarathustra ( Zoroaster is the Greek form of his name ) , is uncertain but it is thought that he flourished in the first half of the sixth century BC . |
| 11 | In the simplest form the word will only be verified if it exists in the dictionary . |
| 12 | If you are starting from scratch , or just , decide what has to be bought and what improvised in the way of seating . |
| 13 | A boy who was one of the first British babies born under water in a ‘ birthing tub ’ drowned when he fell in the River Avon , a Plymouth inquest heard yesterday … |
| 14 | At the beginning Dickens piles up adjectives in order to set the scene and build atmosphere as is shown when he writes in the first chapter |
| 15 | Her background as a social worker helped when she intervened in the child abuse row and played a key role in drawing up new guidelines on how the social services should handle future cases . |
| 16 | The sandy-haired man 's eyes narrowed as he took in the possessive gesture , but he made no comment on it . |
| 17 | But seaweed and stones lodged in the uprooted bushes that littered the low hills and meadows ; beehives were found where they rolled in the bed of a stream ; fish lay silver in farmyards , and drowned sheep on the shore . |
| 18 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 19 | There was n't a wide enough field of vision to make much out , beyond the slime-laden walls of the pit , but , just for an instant , the Doctor could have sworn that something moved in the reflexive way of an uncomfortable sleeper . |
| 20 | The world is a patch-work of different colours : the animal is only camouflaged if it settles in the right place . |
| 21 | Carrie lifted her head and looked at him , and what she saw was a young boy , the same young boy she had known when she lived in the cottage . |
| 22 | Evelyn watched her , terrified as she writhed in the dust , twisting the strands together . |
| 23 | In Moscow , Mr Yeltsin won a higher percentage of the votes cast than he did in the 1991 presidential election . |
| 24 | Erm so what I have to is an executor appointed provided he lived in the country for instance because his address was abroad at the time . |
| 25 | She thought of taking off her overall — ; she was wearing one of Lily 's blouses underneath — only when it was unbuttoned and she looked in the mirror her chest poked out in a most peculiar way . |
| 26 | ‘ Both officers ’ corpses were molested as they lay in the morgue . |
| 27 | He watched his friend watching Isabel and his hazel eyes slowly widened as he took in the tightly drawn stillness in the other man 's body , the white-knuckled fist still clenched against the wall . |
| 28 | The very first question Monica was asked when she arrived in the interview room following her comfortable defeat of Mary Joe Fernandez in the final at Linders Park — apart form the gasp of astonishment and general approval for the 1920's style outfit she was wearing , was ‘ Will you go to Wimbledon now ? ’ |
| 29 | Once , Professor Ward had publicly admitted that he believed in the uniqueness of Jesus . |
| 30 | The men of the relieving force , which was a large one , handsomely equipped with field batteries , were not surprised to find Krishnapur deserted as they advanced in the direction of the iron bridge . |