Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The East German won , the Frenchman came second and Allan qualified in third place . |
| 2 | SHEILA lived in a cottage on the rocky shelf of a mountain . |
| 3 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 4 | I mean , me and Will met in Carter Lane … ’ |
| 5 | Flora Macdonald lived in a small farm estate , off this road . |
| 6 | No doubt Antimenides fought in Palestine for the Babylonians , but his brother Alcaeus was not interested in specifying against whom he fought . |
| 7 | Section 5.4 is more interesting , however , in that it gives some indication of the problem that false positives could cause even if LA succeeded in accessing all the intended words . |
| 8 | Yes , if Olga lived in Paris , she too would almost certainly choose Passy . |
| 9 | " One year ago the people of Panama lived in fear , under the thumb of a dictator . |
| 10 | At an earlier hearing , defence solicitor Colin Nott failed in a bid to have the ban lifted , but successfully appealed at the High Court the next day to have the bail condition lifted so his client could see the baby under supervision . |
| 11 | The CGT failed in its attempt to separate worker and student contingents . |
| 12 | The Foleys lived in a large Victorian house with a garden in Donnybrook , a couple of miles from the centre of Dublin . |
| 13 | Suspicion kindled in her breast . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never seen anything like that in my life , ’ Mitch announced in absolute awe . |
| 15 | As the 1970s progressed , Moscow succeeded in establishing and maintaining diplomatic links with the majority of Latin American and Caribbean states . |
| 16 | Trent rode in first gear , headlight tunnelling into the forest gloom through which the rain bucketed . |
| 17 | Newman asked in a low voice . |
| 18 | In this way , Man and Daurog lived in uneasy harmony for many generations , each keeping to their realm , each finding power in the other , each recognizing the other in themselves … |
| 19 | Koerner examines how artists such as Durer and Baldung Grien registered in their paintings changing attitudes to self in sixteenth-century Germany . |
| 20 | The Poles of the Congress Kingdom were not broken , for even Paskevich admitted in 1850 that the calm he had established merely reflected their " awareness of their powerlessness and their conviction of the incontestable might of your Imperial Highness " . |
| 21 | BRITAIN 'S Julia Snell failed in her bid to repeat her silver-medal start to the freestyle skiing World Cup in Tignes , France . |
| 22 | Couple of good saves today you must be pleased with ; Wittingham got in one very good header did n't he . |
| 23 | ‘ We 're sorry that we teased you — and I promise to wear my blue headband tomorrow , ’ Sophie whispered in her ear . |
| 24 | Unwilling to make an unheralded entrance , Nicandra quivered in a distance of expectancy . |
| 25 | Jazz asked in wonder . |
| 26 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 27 | Guyana and Venezuela agreed in February 1990 to the appointment of a special UN representative to mediate in their dispute over the Essequibo region . |
| 28 | Most Tibbu lived in Zawiya , the central administrative settlement of Kufra ; but there were still some fifteen households at Qadr Fi , a marginally cultivable area which possessed Kufra 's only remaining palm-fronded houses , the only houses which did not have electricity and , in the central group of oases , the only ones without running water . |
| 29 | Kelly got in her car and headed east towards Feltham . |
| 30 | Captain America 's main man EUGENE KELLY got in touch to tell us the latest development , namely the withdrawing of the sleeve , and added : ‘ I have for a long time been a devoted customer of C&A and will only wear socks and pants with the C&A label . |