Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] in [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a clock on the cooker ; another on the video ; another on the dashboard of the car ; another built in to the pocket-calculator ; yet another on the end of the pen she uses ; another on the device that switches the boiler on and off ; yet another on the outside of the tall building Steven passes in his car on the flyover . |
| 2 | A new style of official entertaining came in at the Palace and still survives . |
| 3 | This tied in with the time factor where the pressure to get things done at the end of the day could lead to dangerous short cuts and a consequent drop in efficiency . |
| 4 | This tied in with the position and colour of the spot when it first appeared . |
| 5 | ‘ The best scores from weekly magazines came from City Limits and New Stateman & Society ; the Literary Review scored well ; the TLS and London Review of Books were disappointing , and the worst scores of all came in from the Spectator and Time Out . |
| 6 | The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B. |
| 7 | It may be that the poll tax was used as a pretext for anarchists , militants and other left-wing Labour Party fellow travellers to encourage riots and civil disorder , but many joined in for the kicks and cared little about the issue . |
| 8 | After the reception , we all went in to the ballroom for a five-course Scottish dinner such as I have not seen for years ! |
| 9 | All mixed in with the echoes of last night . |
| 10 | Foxing was a term first used in about the 1840s , probably because the brownish-yellow spots and blotches reminded some fox-hunting bibliophile of his quarry in the countryside . |
| 11 | Pensions for the aged came in at the beginning of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | Reich , born in 1897 , was thirty-two years old when the first part of The Sexual Revolution was published in 1929 ; Freud was already sixty-four years old when the notion of the death instincts first appeared in Beyond the Pleasure Principle in 1920 . |
| 13 | Then he made 38 runs in good time as Northern cashed in against the champions ' depleted bowling resources . |
| 14 | It came about because , after an early night in the same bed as that slept in by the Prince , Dr Johnson , who had a cold and had been rendered a little deaf by it , ‘ spoke of Prince Charles being here , and asked Mrs Macdonald , ‘ Who was with him ? |
| 15 | The research by Yorkshire TV paid off last Sunday when 18 million tuned in for the first episode of A Touch of Frost . |
| 16 | Thousands drove in for the celebrations . |