Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [pron] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Spittals picked up from his desk a silver cup he had won in his youth in the Manchester Bowls League . |
| 7 | Yesterday I won the first competition , I 've ever won in my life ! |
| 8 | ‘ Quite right , ’ the Doctor 's voice crackled in her helmet . |
| 9 | Nell 's transceivered voice crackled in his headphones . |
| 10 | Silk 's voice , metallic , distorted , crackled in his ear . |
| 11 | ‘ Ve-hickle coming , ’ Lucy Cheadle 's voice crackled in his earchip . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Widow Jo Robinson who 's eighty-four and walks with sticks was attacked in her home in Great Missenden |
| 15 | A woman aged 47 needed hospital treatment for bruising yesterday after being attacked in her home in Chirton Road , North Shields , by a man who stole her video recorder . |
| 16 | A MURDER inquiry was launched yesterday after an 82-year-old pensioner died in hospital , ten days after being brutally attacked in her home . |
| 17 | Ragtime Blues , an eight year old mare , was attacked in her field . |
| 18 | An eighty five year old woman has been attacked in her bed by two men who then ransacked her house . |
| 19 | Earlier this week in Surrey , a businessman 's wife was beaten and robbed of seventy five thousand pound 's worth of jewellery after being attacked in her sports car on the M Twenty Five . |
| 20 | Dr Elizabeth Howe was preparing to take a summer school when she was attacked in her room by Robin Pask . |
| 21 | THE sickened owner of a horse which was attacked in its stable at Newton Bewley , near Hartlepool , is appealing for help in tracking down the thugs responsible . |
| 22 | Poor , poor language , attacked in its innocence by feminists intent on destroying its virtue . |
| 23 | However , a UNPROFOR ( UN Protection Force in Yugoslavia — see p. 38849 ) convoy from Belgrade was attacked in its attempt to reach Sarajevo to prepare the opening of the airport . |
| 24 | A week-old baby , Jack Steff , had an ear sown back on yesterday after being attacked in his home in Upminster , east London , by the family 's Jack Russell , which was later destroyed . |
| 25 | POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an incident on the Albertbridge Road on Sunday night in which a man was attacked in his car by a gang of youths . |
| 26 | And partly , on a more mundane level , the puzzle of how a murder could have been committed in what John Dickson Carr used to call a hermetically sealed chamber " is perhaps the most intriguing one in the detection writer 's whole bag of tricks . |
| 27 | The proposal sought to balance German preference for a politically independent Eurofed , committed in its statutes to an anti-inflation policy , with French and other countries ' preference for greater government control . |
| 28 | They are a splendid orchestra , disciplined and committed in their playing , and firmly directed by conductor Takuo Yuasa . |
| 29 | It was not that the athletes who won in 1924 were any less determined or committed in their approach . |
| 30 | While some follow this path , many others conform again , and do not become committed in their ways . |