Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] in [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it erupted prematurely in Leinster the following May , Robert refused to lead a rising in Ulster before the expected French help arrived , and resigned his command . |
| 2 | When I was locked hidden away in Suleiman the Magnificent 's harem , I satisfied every one of his houris but , as I keep saying , that 's another story . ] |
| 3 | When the Soviet Union intervened militarily in Afghanistan the British Foreign Secretary , Lord Carrington , rapidly proposed a plan for Afghanistan which was approved by the Council of Ministers of the EEC and adopted as a joint EEC declaration on 15 January 1980 . |
| 4 | Polybius again went a step further by passing over in silence the Roman Bacchanalia which chronologically and typologically can hardly be separated from the new popularity of Dionysus in Egypt about 210 B.C. He was also silent about the religious crisis in Rome during the second Punic War : we do not hear from him about the human sacrifices of that time . |
| 5 | I woke up in bed the next morning with a strange feeling that something was wrong … |
| 6 | MADONNA was seen deep in conversation the other night at Manhattan 's fashionable Cafe Tabac with Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar , whose most successful film , Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown , can be seen on BBC2 tomorrow . |
| 7 | Laura was sent for , and arrived back in London the following afternoon . |
| 8 | We arrived back in Gravesend the next morning having consumed a lot of diesel and patience . |
| 9 | ‘ Labour will introduce a new Railway Act that will lay down in law the broad policy objectives that we expect BR to meet , ’ he told the Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Sheffield . |
| 10 | Dr Carter is thoroughly versed in the most recent literature relevant to his subject , and much of his account draws together in outline the present state of knowledge ( to which he himself , through his articles , has abundantly contributed ) . |
| 11 | A meeting was set up in Stockton the same month , they decided to organise their own Meet in Richmond and by June the first ever North Yorkshire and South Durham Cyclists ' Meet was held . |
| 12 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
| 13 | As long as war went on in Europe the French would have to make it their main area of activity and could not concentrate on colonial or naval war . |
| 14 | AS the talking went on in America the Bosnian Serbs appeared to have gained a firmer hold on their territorial war gains today . |
| 15 | Piet Marais , Minister of Administration , Education , Culture and Manpower ( i.e. with responsibility for white education ) , took over in addition the overall Ministry of National Education , previously held by Pienaar . |
| 16 | Parliament never voted enough money for a naval war with the Netherlands to be decisively successful , so the most substantial result of the anti-Dutch policy was that in 1664 the English seized New Amsterdam , and kept it in the 1668 peace negotiations by handing over in exchange the English colony of Surinam in Guiana . |
| 17 | My head fell off in bed the other night , |
| 18 | Richard how far does the christening go back in church the baptismal book ? |
| 19 | The army trucks had passed through in convoy the previous evening , and any new fact or assumption about the happenings of the clinic 's ruins were now conversational gold-dust . |
| 20 | To do this it is useful to think through in detail the daily routine of the client , what he/she can manage , and where the gaps are . |
| 21 | He or she will also know local churches well and should have worked out in advance the best setting for family photographs , special effects and romantic pictures . |
| 22 | If things did go wrong , especially during recording , it was counted major disaster , increasing proportionately in scale the nearer to 10.00 pm the clock ticked . |
| 23 | There were reports of opposition supporters having been fired on in Tbilisi the following day . |
| 24 | Engels , on the other hand , states in the preface to the first edition of The Origin that ‘ Morgan in his own way had discovered afresh in America the materialistic conception of history , discovered by Marx forty years ago , and in his comparison of barbarism and civilization it had led him , in the main points , to the same conclusions as Marx' [ p. 71 ] . |
| 25 | But yet I was suspended , right , for a long time and she after she came back all she had is a little scratch there but they took 'er to 'ospital just to make it seem serious and she come back in school the next day . |
| 26 | WFTU split under the pressure of the Cold War in 1949 , when the British TUC and the CIO from the United States ( followed by the AFL ) set up in opposition the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions ( ICFTU ) . |
| 27 | Very briefly , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , you raised the issue of procedures looking at the er post two thousand and six scenario within the light of er a statutory greenbelt er at that time , and I would envisage that the County Council and the Districts , if indeed we 're all er in business at er er in in in the next century , would probably want to run a similar sort of exercise that they would be ran through the end of the eighties , and that is to sit down together , er and look at all the options , er that are available for Greater York , in the same way that they did it in ninety eighty nine , one additional factor at that time would be that er the greenbelt would be statutory , and it would be statutory if the County Council and ninety five percent of the district support on sites would be a tight greenbelt so the options would be looked at erm er in that context , on the comments that er Miss Whittaker , erm questions that Miss Whittaker raised , there is a paper that the County Council produced for the greenbelt local plan enquiry that I remember well as N Y Two , which set out in detail the various components , erm of the York greenbelt in addition to the historic title that the that the focus of the green belt comes across a variety of of of of matters , and if it if it is helpful to this panel that document was acceptable by and large , supported by the District , we can certainly put that in , and can circulate it round . |