Example sentences of "[vb past] in [pos pn] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words ‘ Rarefied atmosphere , yes ? ’ spoken in her own voice , returned to bother her . |
| 2 | Perhaps , once again , a local bank may supply free literature on the exact procedures ( and controls ) used in your own country . |
| 3 | Obviously a one-man operation by a disturbed girl who believed in her own propaganda . |
| 4 | The exclusion on the grounds of race of a people who laid as much emphasis on their own ethnic origins as did the Japanese , and who implicitly believed in their own superiority , appeared an unpardonable insult . |
| 5 | He studied in his own land " under the ulema of his time " and is said to have studied under Seyyid Serif ( d. 816/1413–14 ) . |
| 6 | Felipe blamed himself for Ana 's blindness and he suffered in his own cold , imperious way . |
| 7 | Everything I did personally and everything I explored in my own life seemed part of this much wider political and social movement . |
| 8 | Rachel woke in her own room , tired- and uncomfortable . |
| 9 | Half-points will also be upgraded to full points for techniques which catch the opponent as he attacks ; for deflecting the opponent and scoring on his undefended back ; for techniques which immediately follow a sweep or throw ; for an onslaught of continuous and effective attacks , each component of which scored in its own right . |
| 10 | One man who had got himself clear in that way drove in his own carriage by the very commissioners to whom he had but lately surrendered , and splashed both them and his creditors with the dirt of his chariot wheels . |
| 11 | In emphasising the place which the child played in his own learning process , Plowden was not covering new ground . |
| 12 | She was educated in the household of Henry Hastings , third Earl of Huntingdon [ q.v. ] , president of the council in the north , and she learned there the Puritan habits of self-examination and regular religious exercises which she later practised in her own household . |
| 13 | His colleague Coun Frank Robson said the reason Mr Fallon was not involved stemmed from his lack of interest in what happened in his own constituency . |
| 14 | ‘ Water ! ’ he begged in his own tongue , but she did n't seem to understand . |
| 15 | And it showed in her own tone when , ‘ Had you telephoned last night you would not have done so , ’ she replied coolly , if not a shade haughtily . |
| 16 | His views were later confirmed by SWWA 's own non-executive director John Lawrence who commented in his own report : ‘ There seems to be a culture in which the public are told as little as possible and expected to trust the Authority to look after their interests . ’ |
| 17 | Rostov asked one of the guards if the man sitting on the cart was the Khan , but the trooper only grinned insolently at him and replied in his own tongue . |
| 18 | Though this salary was the same as that of a third-class constable , the lowest police rank , village sergeants were much better off because they served in their own localities , were not subject to discipline , and had other income . |
| 19 | This , it is claimed , provides at the same time a clue as to the meaning of fiction ; for fiction really is the result of treating that which can exist only derivatively , or " parasitically " , as if it existed in its own right . |
| 20 | After the whambamthankyouma'am of the sixties , the seventies barely existed in their own right , but were more a kind of dream time when no one wanted to admit the good times had gone , or indeed had never really been . |
| 21 | Indeed , at first sight he appears to deny that they existed in his own day . |
| 22 | Generalizing from these reflections that began in my own subjectivity I may ask ‘ objective ’ questions about the origin of my self-awareness , of my structure , and that of others . |
| 23 | CLASS managing director and computer software expert David Jones claims the cattle videoed in their own environment look and feel their best . |
| 24 | County , penned in their own half for long periods , were unable to manage more than two genuine scoring attempts in the whole match . |
| 25 | Northampton managed only one try , a push-over by Shelford with the advantage of a strong breeze , and spent almost the entire second half penned in their own half . |
| 26 | He followed in his own limousine — then drove the Panhard a few hundred yards to the finishing line . |
| 27 | I developed in my own way , free from the pressures of fashion . |
| 28 | The adjustment was made more difficult by the fact that Vietnam also became part of Cold War tensions : the Chinese Communists , who triumphed in their own country in 1949 , gave aid to Ho Chi Minh , and the following year the Americans extended aid to the French . |
| 29 | ‘ She does n't get out much ’ , a phrase that Shirley had learned to use of her mother to forestall enquiry , impertinence , sympathy : a middle-aged phrase that she heard in her own voice as parody — indeed , she had noticed that when ‘ the family ’ gathered together all of them spoke in parodies of clichés , and some of them knew quite well that they were doing it . |
| 30 | And from the start both divided and joined : two panels , one frame , yet each panel also enclosed in its own frame . |