Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] in [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By morning , I was covered in bites from a number of loathsome insects who fed better than I did . |
| 2 | I was thinking in terms of between thirty-five and forty-five . |
| 3 | Er the Noble Baroness is is right erm we do notice that where a consultant is in charge the difference is very great indeed , I 'm afraid I do n't have the figure but I will certainly give it to her , er but also we know that where there are er hospital discharge managers where senior nurses are bed managers , the difference is really quite considerable er and that is what I was saying in terms of managing the process . |
| 4 | Early in 1913 Cendrars published the first ‘ simultaneous ’ book , La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France , a poem over six feet in length , which was printed in letters of different colours and sizes on an abstract coloured background designed by Sonia Delaunay . |
| 5 | Remembering Johnnie 's warning , Jack concluded that the prowler had come in search of the coal which was stored in bags under the box . |
| 6 | An inn-keeper like H. Goble of Petworth was worth £561 when his will was proved in 1670 ; the local glover , N. Warner , died in 1645 worth £1539 , most of which was held in mortgages on other men 's property . |
| 7 | suggest that the discrete moral panics associated with the permissive age , e.g. those around abortion , VD , drugs and pornography , form the backdrop to the ‘ general crisis of the state ’ which was identified in panics around violent conduct like ‘ mugging ’ . |
| 8 | The company later opened another quarry down the hill to provide grey chalk which was taken in barges to their cement works at Frindsbury . |
| 9 | One of the patients could not categorize the expression on faces that she was shown in photographs in terms of whether the expression was one of happiness , anger , surprise and so on . |
| 10 | They included members of a Mafia clan from Corleone in Sicily — the birthplace of fictional Godfather Don Corleone who was played in films by Marlon Brando . |
| 11 | Oddly enough , it was not a star of either film who was recalled in speeches at the launch , but Wil Napoleon , who after appearances as an extra in two 1958 films Inn of the Sixth Happiness and The Vikings , always registered as unemployed under the occupation of ‘ film star ’ . |
| 12 | Shortly after these outcries , he pulled out all the stops in an attempt to persuade Theo — who was embroiled in crises of his own and talking of emigrating to America — to join him and become an artist . |
| 13 | Furthermore , fundic argyrophil endocrine tumours developed in five of 17 — that is , 29.5% of patients with associated MEN 1 while none was seen in patients with sporadic type disease . |
| 14 | She herself was dressed in sequins from head to toe . |
| 15 | All of this seemed to be well understood until early this century , because it was explained in terms of Newton 's theory of gravitation . |
| 16 | Because teachers ' centres and the increase of in-service education in the late 1970s and 1980s occurred outside schools , there was some separation between the flow of curriculum development in the sense in which it was supported in schools by the work of advisers and advisory teachers and in the way it made its impact on individual teachers through regular courses of familiarization and in-service education . |
| 17 | The increase in PGE 2 associated with Helicobacter pylori seems likely to be a consequence of the associated inflammatory cell infiltrate as it was seen in patients with type B ( chronic active ) but not with type C ( chemical ) gastritis , which is characterised by a paucity of inflammatory cells . |
| 18 | It was done in terms of what the specification should include , and a discussion of possible contents . |
| 19 | It was to lie in ruins for another sixty-one years . |
| 20 | It was painted in blocks of flat colour , cleverly apposed , with more regard for pattern than form . |
| 21 | It was dispersed in terms of client groups . |
| 22 | Following the report in early 1990 by accountants Coopers and Lybrand into the activities of offshore financial businesses in the UK 's Caribbean dependent territories , it was agreed in talks in May between UK government officials and the Chief Minister , Emile Gumbs , that Anguilla 's Constitution would be amended ( by Order in Council within the next few months ) to allow the Governor to assume responsibility for the offshore financial sector . |
| 23 | First , it was reformulated in theories of political development and modernization which were , however , more restricted in their scope in several ways ; by confining the notion of development largely to the ‘ developing countries ’ , and at the same time taking as their model of a ‘ modern ’ developed society the existing Western industrial countries , as if these countries had reached the limit of their historical development . |
| 24 | It was glued in places by dried blood , and he flinched as she peeled it away . |
| 25 | It was pinned in banknotes on the robes of the local thaumaturge as his statue — or hers was carried through the village , or dropped into the collecting pouches the sacristan poked into the pews . |
| 26 | The LOS was identified by a sustained resting pressure are that relaxed with swallowing ; it was measured in centimeters from the nose . |
| 27 | He was fitted in blinkers for the 1984 Gold Cup but behaved mulishly , twice trying to pull himself up before finishing a distant sixth to Burrough Hill Lad . |
| 28 | Deloittes had been negligent when certifying AWA 's 1986 profits and it had also failed to adequately disclose to directors various matters including books and record deficiences , the existence of ‘ hedges upon hedges ’ , the ability of its foreign exchange dealer Andrew Koval to siphon funds , and the fact that he was dealing in sums of up to $400m . |
| 29 | Nizan 's life chances were clearly and inalterably inscribed in his family situation long before he was born in Tours in February 1905 . |
| 30 | He was dressed in jodhpurs of field grey , and polished boots . |