Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thomson was born in Kansas City in 1896 , studied at Harvard , and then mostly lived in Paris until 1940 . |
| 2 | She mostly lived in the country and she was rich . |
| 3 | My relationship with Crossman eventually became in some ways a comic one . |
| 4 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 5 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 6 | In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund , amassed by the girls from a summer fair , Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories . |
| 7 | Many species live , and presumably lived in the past , in inland or upland sites where little sediment accumulates . |
| 8 | They rarely succeeded in making an antislavery question into a diplomatic issue , though they occasionally tried to exploit an existing issue for antislavery purposes . |
| 9 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
| 10 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 11 | To this end he eventually succeeded in rejecting ministers proposed by Abe and Watanabe , but did so only with the support of Takeshita and Ozawa . |
| 12 | In fact it rarely met in the 1920s . |
| 13 | The young German eventually got in front with seven laps remaining when Senna 's McLaren appeared to develop a technical problem , Schumacher squeezing past at the final hairpin . |
| 14 | We eventually got in there about coming up to half past two |
| 15 | It was not simply a matter of counter action , for the chapel with its meetings , services , love-feasts , etc. became in itself a centre of non-work-time activities and as the nineteenth century advanced , a deliberate purveyor of counter attraction . |
| 16 | Below them , on the far side , and the various storage compartments , sliding desk , etc. described in the text ; on the near side is the hatch covering the box extension into which the legs could be stretched when the carriage was used for sleeping . |
| 17 | His body is not all that promising : the epic blemishes on the back of the hands , the torso loosely robed in flesh smelling of poultry and peppermint , the feet . |
| 18 | The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s . |
| 19 | It was Trainer himself who deftly headed in a right wing free kick at the start of the second period , but Ballycastle came back to equalise through Woods with two minutes to go before Gorman 's winner settled an exciting tie . |
| 20 | Both were the kind of homosexuals who felt sexually inhibited with partners from their own educational background and class and who rarely found in one and the same person both lover and friend . |
| 21 | Slowly beat in the milk , 2fl oz of water and seasoning to taste . |
| 22 | There seemed to be wide horizontal bands of light which slowly changed in intensity , with brighter spots growing and fading in places mysteriously against the deeps of eternity . |
| 23 | If we let X stand for any one of the sets X , Q , R , C , Z[x] , etc. mentioned in Chapter 1 , then the operations of addition and multiplication defined on X may be described as binary operations on X in that , to each pair of elements of X , both + and . |
| 24 | Over 600 amateur performers representing 11 Organisations including the League of Health & Beauty , Keep Fit , Margaret Morris , Medau , Slimnastics , Ballroom and Folk Dance , etc. moved in a kaleidoscope of colour within the splendour of the Royal Albert Hall enthralling their audience , ending in a grand finale flooding into the arena from every entrance and aisle , swirling round in one great happy group to celebrate this wonderful occasion . |
| 25 | The two young thieves eventually fled in terror . |
| 26 | Local private firms had built up a skilled work force that eventually drew in foreign multinationals on terms acceptable to the government . |
| 27 | He eventually surfaced in the hospital kitchens , where , through his flirtatious manner with a fat lard-like female cook , he had managed to scrounge a free meal . |
| 28 | Without looking back into the car he suddenly drawled in good English : |
| 29 | A film of tears suddenly welled in his eyes . |
| 30 | Consequently , first thing in the morning when we were all trying to get ready , we constantly got in each other 's way . |