Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Hollyoake lived at the house in Belper , Derbys , with her husband and their 16-year-old daughter . |
| 2 | Florrie gazed at the letter in her hands . |
| 3 | Well the last the last time when Sunderland got to the Final in seventy-three er there were five of us in the , in my house and I 'd made red and white rosettes |
| 4 | They do not approach the present problem which arises when the successor lived with the tenant in different premises during the qualifying period . |
| 5 | Head of state : King Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva succeeded to the throne in 1972 . |
| 6 | Three fingers whispered against the skin in the V of her blouse , reaching inside to move within the lace edge of her bra , pushing beneath the confinement of it with greater insistence , hot now and seeking more intimacy than that first feather-light touch had allowed . |
| 7 | The cutlers rioted against the system in 1756 . |
| 8 | The snake 's skin trembled at the movement in the air . |
| 9 | Cusack headed against the post in the last minute . |
| 10 | Cusack headed against the post in the last minute . |
| 11 | Marcus shouted from the doorway in that distinctly unfriendly tone of his and clapped his hands hard . |
| 12 | Thus the research impacted on the team in several important and positive ways . |
| 13 | The beginning of that evolution is usually dated to the constitution which Solon produced for the city in or around the year 594 BC.Solon 's intervention was itself the outcome of a period of conflict between " the masse and " the notable , according to the account given by Aristotle in The Athenian Constitution . |
| 14 | The third narrative tells how George Meredith modelled for the corpse in the painting and how his wife then ran away with the painter ( see also the sonnets in Meredith 's Modern Love ) . |
| 15 | The extension of this power in 1983 to cover elderly people in residential care and nursing homes led to the growth in the number of private home places , which more than doubled from 1979–84 , and was estimated to be continuing to rise ( Audit Commission , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | Richard read of the fire in the newspaper on his way back from the county hospital . |
| 17 | Escalating violence led to the promulgation in mid-September of new emergency laws aimed at curbing terrorism . |
| 18 | His early research led to the publication in 1942 of ‘ The Negro in the Caribbean ’ in which he applauded the rise of working class leaders in the West Indies . |
| 19 | Meredith trembled at the tenderness in his tone . |
| 20 | Dot shouted at the hump in the pink satin eiderdown . |
| 21 | Violence erupted on the pitch in the second-half of the quarter-final first leg and fans hurled missiles on to the pitch . |
| 22 | SIR — The Italian multicentre study pubished in The Lancet in 1987 investigated the efficacy of subcutaneous low-dose heparin in preventing recurrence of myocardial infarction. 728 survivors of acute myocardial infarction were randomised 6–18 months later to subcutaneous heparin ( 12,500 IU daily ) plus usual treatment ( 363 ) , or usual treatment alone ( 365 ) . |
| 23 | Paramedics came to the house in Thompson Street , Darlington , and struggled to revive her but it was too late . |
| 24 | The memory-discs connected to these computers came from the factory in Mainz , West Germany , and the printers from the factory at Jarfalla in Sweden . |
| 25 | Possibly the biggest change at the Pru came with the appointment in 1989 of a new chief executive , Mick Newmarch . |
| 26 | His eyes darted along the beach in reckless agony , which no amount of jogging or kayaking was able to dispel . |
| 27 | I did the er there was a an ambulance came down the road in front of a bus you see , and a chap which was on the cor , side the road and he he went like this so I stopped and the ambulance came round and turned into this building site and I and while we were sitting there bang ! |
| 28 | He stopped to relieve himself into the roadside bushes and almost lost his balance as a car screeched round the corner in a clatter of gravel . |
| 29 | Ramsey arrived at the university in October 1923 . |
| 30 | Shiona frowned at the phone in total bewilderment . |