Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jenny Pitman 's Do Be Brief stepped onto a racecourse for the first time in the first division of the Christmas Pudding Novice Hurdle and made quite an impression in beating Sailor 's Luck , but not half as big as his stable-companion Egypt Mill , who looked something special in landing the second division by 10 lengths . |
| 2 | And he glanced round at the still-insensible Liam and threw away the cigarette in disgust . |
| 3 | Eventually more than ten people , including Bott , were arrested and spent over a year in jail before the end of the lengthy legal proceedings . |
| 4 | In one such incident , described in some detail , he tells us how ‘ one Friday night an enormous navvy pushed the head of a constable through a shop window and started quite a battle in which uniformed and plainclothes men cheerfully joined in ’ . |
| 5 | He was well off and had therefore no difficulty in accomplishing this . |
| 6 | October 1940 , but made virtually no progress in the winter months and the arrival of British Air Force units to assist the Greek troops , prompted Hitler to act in order to protect the very important German control of oilfields in Rumania . |
| 7 | They lost every deposit , and so contributed £128,000 towards the election , but received almost no coverage in the national press , TV or radio in return . |