Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |
| 2 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
| 3 | The guard examined it in close detail , checking off the listed physical peculiarities . |
| 4 | The exchange put him in excellent mood for his breakfast . |
| 5 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 6 | The grounding Mr Morrison received at James Dowling 's feet stood him in good stead . |
| 7 | After murdering some of his art-loving favourites in 1482 , one group imprisoned him in reasonable comfort in Edinburgh castle and formed a provisional government . |
| 8 | Despite his lack of political experience , Clouthier 's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead . |
| 9 | His early training as an engineer stood him in good stead , and he not only devised but also constructed most of the apparatus that he used . |
| 10 | This defence caused some difficulty for the Court of Appeal when two cases raised it in quick succession in the summer and autumn of 1988 . |
| 11 | It was not long before someone threw a lump of broken paving through a window ; a dozen sets of plans followed it in short order . |
| 12 | The yellow glow from his little oil lamp showed her in unusual array , her black hair braided in a red ribbon , with curls artfully breaking free around her temples , her gown deepest and brightest blue like her eyes , and a girdle of gold braid round her hips . |
| 13 | Sartorial details aside , such efforts stood him in good stead with Disney . |
| 14 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |
| 15 | Moreover , the self-defined small scale nature of these projects placed them in marked contrast to the first seven Urban Development Corporations announced in Britain in the 1980s in London Docklands , Merseyside ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) , Sheffield , the Black Country , Teesside , Tyne and Wear and Greater Manchester , all of which received over £100 million in financial support . |
| 16 | An unspoken sympathy bound them in comfortable silence as they padded down the garden . |
| 17 | But true to form , the new season saw him in familiar mood , darting into dangerous positions and scoring with ease as relegated West Ham tried to regain their aristocratic status . |
| 18 | When Melinda answered him in fluent Arabic , they all looked at her as if they had seen a ghost , bade us goodnight , and melted away into the darkness again . |
| 19 | I suppose that simple precept from that old foreman stood me in good stead for thirty odd years , until now . ’ |
| 20 | It was because the Communist Party fed me , that my learning stood me in good stead and I know at least this much and I live like this . |
| 21 | experience of project managing the construction of a new store stood him in good stead for creating a corner of Cornwall in Stamford Street in just two days . |
| 22 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 23 | One particularly violent swerve took it right off the counter and Finn caught it in mid air , upside down , wheels spinning . |
| 24 | Modigliani painted him in tiny brush strokes of colours reminiscent of the Divisionist style , in vibrant reds and blues , as if he was celebrating a return to the colours of the spectrum . |
| 25 | Mrs Sowerberry watched him in silent horror , already thinking about her future food bills , then took him upstairs to the shop . |
| 26 | I enjoyed the function and my friends kept me in good cheer as I was obviously anxious about my husband being in the Gulf and did have a few too many drinks . |
| 27 | The lamp outside in the yard bathed him in grey light , leaving his eyes in deep shadow so that his face resembled that of a corpse . |
| 28 | To add to this confusion the steep-angled grass above is riddled with puffin burrows ; later in our stay we found that attempts to move tripods closer to the edge put us in real danger of disappearing downwards , compete with the odd half-acre of apparently stable cliff top . |
| 29 | The superior numbers of the Imperial army stood them in good stead : within a few minutes , Dara 's forces had broken through the rebels ' artillery and put to flight the infantry . |
| 30 | The hands that normally give the despatch box a confident caress gripped it in white-knuckled nervousness . |