Example sentences of "[vb past] in [det] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vision of dead , flattened , feathered guests rose in both their minds , as they plotted and planned . |
| 2 | Jung seemed to have lost the emphasis on the body , and especially on the sexual instincts , which Freud retained in all his work . |
| 3 | ‘ Could we ? ’ both Leith and Sebastian asked together , the idea of renting accommodation swiftly tossed aside , as it quickly sank in that their father , trustee to the considerable amount of money left to them by his father , seemed prepared to use his discretionary right and let them have it now . |
| 4 | Clearly Fjortoft ( who has sucked at Swindon , not a single goal yet ! ) and maybe also Sorloth ( who as before mentioned was at a 14-day trial at Leeds and scored in all his test matches ) will be picked . |
| 5 | As Benazir Bhutto was sworn in the news came in that her choice for speaker had been elected in Punjab . |
| 6 | It was in these smaller and older streets that urban life existed in all its jostle and bustle . |
| 7 | They were by now close together , and the devil , who had got into both of them , whispered in both their ears ; McAllister had meant to ask , Now , how did we arrive at that ? and Dr Neil , who had meant to say something provocative to her , decided to do something provocative instead . |
| 8 | The Three Pigeons stood as comfortably as The Two Pheasants , and the major houses round the green endured in all their Cotswold serenity . |
| 9 | Mrs Maugham was a great shopper in large department stores , and she could not resist their sillier notions ; if anyone had accused her of extravagance , she would have roundly rebuffed the accusation as fantastic and perverse , and yet she must have spent many useless pounds in her pursuit of useful acquisitions Similarly , she always maintained that she hated clutter-clutter , implying , in her tone , the dense decorative drawing-room knick-knacks of Victorian England and yet clutter reigned in all her rooms . |
| 10 | If two monads coincided in all their attributes , then they would be indistinguishable and one could not properly speak of " two " monads . |
| 11 | ‘ Except in cases that require learning and skill ’ , says Baxter , ‘ she was better at resolving a case of conscience than most divines that I ever knew in all my life . ’ |
| 12 | Miniatures still survive showing this part of the palace decked in all its splendour with shady silk awnings of brilliant scarlet , gilded cupolas shining atop the chaffris and , lying open to pavilions , the Hayat Baksh or Life-Bestowing Paradise Garden , planted with cypress , mangoes , apricots and sweet-smelling nargis , kuzah and gulal . |
| 13 | Perhaps it just grew and matured until it took in all their emotions , but his hands began to smooth her back and shoulders , until in the end his fingers were threaded through her hair and his big , warm hands were holding her steady while he kissed her with mesmerising thoroughness . |
| 14 | He took in all its parts and , as sovereign master of the orchestra , gave it a hitherto unimagined degree of firmness . |
| 15 | Yea , some that come constantly to our meetings are grossly ignorant ; whereas in one hour 's familiar instruction of them in private , they seem to understand more , and better entertain it than they did in all their lives before . ’ |
| 16 | But I did kick the drug , Mr Breakspear , and it was probably the hardest damned thing I ever did in all my life . |
| 17 | ’ The great organisations of the masses … in the past were not worked out by any theoretical elite or vanguard … the new organisations will come as Lilburnes Leveller Party came , as the sections and popular societies of Paris in 1793 , as the Commune in 1871 and the Soviets in 1905 , with not a single soul having any concrete ideas about them until they appeared in all their power and glory ’ . |
| 18 | My aunt had a dancing school for many , many years and I appeared in all her plays , and at school I appeared in school plays and I was very proud when I played Robin Hood . |
| 19 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 20 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 21 | After one long and stimulating chat with Emily on her small front porch she suddenly announced ‘ I 'm going to call you Bobbie ! ’ and Bobbie it remained in all our conversations and letters from her , from then on . |
| 22 | Perhaps some wore jackets this time and perhaps some restaurants pampered their customers with radiant ceiling heating slanting down on their open galleries , but the Tivoli lights still swung as gently in the trees , the musicians played as sweetly , and the Pantominteatret still stood in all its glory , its magnificent ‘ curtain' of a peacock with fan-shaped tail unfurled waiting dramatically against a sky of indigo velvet for the second performance of the evening . |