Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] in [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An extension to movement this year was Rosemary Gould 's Reflexology therapy , carried on in her every spare minute , all her proceeds going to Medau . |
| 2 | A contract is drawn up in which a specific number of sittings are requested and the details of the projected picture are set down . |
| 3 | His decrepitude — the historically stained clothes , that dangle of egg-white slobber from the chin — set off in me a general adolescent anger against life and its inevitable valedictory condition ; a feeling which smoothly translated itself into hatred of the person undergoing that condition . |
| 4 | His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often . |
| 5 | A compromise was being hammered out in which the once-opposed concepts of design and transmutation would be synthesized so that the trends in the fossil record could be accepted as the gradual unfolding of a divine plan . |