Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 4 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
| 5 | The guard examined it in close detail , checking off the listed physical peculiarities . |
| 6 | Decorum demanded it in any case . |
| 7 | The exchange put him in excellent mood for his breakfast . |
| 8 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 9 | The grounding Mr Morrison received at James Dowling 's feet stood him in good stead . |
| 10 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |
| 11 | The plaintiff encouraged him in this behaviour . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Despite his lack of political experience , Clouthier 's 20-year leadership of business organisations stood him in good stead . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | So their best event found them in sixth position . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Anyone acting out of character worried her in this way , until she had had a silent time alone , to work it out and grow used to the change . |
| 20 | He felt it would soon be the moment to make a move , and her behaviour left him in little doubt as to what sort of move it should be . |
| 21 | Sartorial details aside , such efforts stood him in good stead with Disney . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ It came just at the time Michael 's voice was breaking and Britten wanted him in that part , so he rewrote it as a young tenor . |
| 24 | If my final sentence reassured him in any way he gave no sign , watching dead-faced as I injected 10 cc of Prontosil . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd sure like t'have pulled him in that night . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | An unspoken sympathy bound them in comfortable silence as they padded down the garden . |
| 28 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |