Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [to-vb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These symptoms were present most of the time , but became much worse if Sheila drove the car , used certain aerosol sprays , or had to sit in the same room as someone wearing perfume or aftershave . |
| 2 | A good churchman , he is a Church Warden — but of a church that ceased to exist in the late 18th century . |
| 3 | The moon was high overhead — a bright , full moon that seemed to float in the dark mirror of the water . |
| 4 | ‘ Primarily , it was attacking that extraordinary wave of nostalgia that seemed to occur in the early and mid-Sixties for how great it was in the war . |
| 5 | Nonetheless , working in the artificial intelligence centres that began to open in the 1950s and 1960s , computer scientists began to make progress of a sort . |
| 6 | The picture that began to emerge in the early 1980s was not encouraging . |
| 7 | The two main rivals that began to emerge in the early 1980s were Thomson , the traditional market leader , and Intasun , a fast growing holiday and leisure group of companies . |
| 8 | The Masterpiece , a collection of folklore about the body and its functions , was probably the single most popular source of information on sex relations and childbirth , and the continuing publication of this work was possibly the last remnant of a much stronger popular demand and usage that began to grow in the nineteenth century with increasing literate audiences demanding knowledge . |
| 9 | The British Shorthair , descended from generations of felines that struggled to survive in the bleak climate of their island home , is stocky and sturdy and much more massive in build than , say , the lean-bodied Siamese from the steamy heat of Bangkok . |
| 10 | The deluge of letters that continued to arrive in the Social Work Department eventually made personal replies an impossible task for the Department . |
| 11 | The volatile combination of passion and laughter was so overwhelming that Virginia shut her eyes and tangled her fingers in the ruffled dark hair and began to drown in the exquisite taste and texture and sensation of kissing Guy and being kissed back very comprehensively in return . |
| 12 | We reached the landing field towards dusk , landed , fitted on our parachutes and decided to jump in the failing light . |
| 13 | Having just finished a talk to a class of candidates for the ministry in a major denomination I was ‘ verbally assaulted ’ by the principal of the theological college concerned who picked up on a brief reference I made to Creation and Evolution and proceeded to state in the strongest possible terms that many true Christians believe in the theory of evolution and reject the biblical account of a literal six day creation as recorded in Genesis . |
| 14 | It argued that public-sector resources were substantial , ‘ but efforts need to be pulled together more effectively , and brought to bear in the same place at the same time ’ ( ibid . |
| 15 | The Burrows children were expected to be examples to the other youngsters in the corps , and had to sit in the front seats of any hall they attended , where Captain Burrows could keep his eagle eye on them . |
| 16 | Lake , facing Anne Simpkin , suffered the injury when 2-1 down in the second set and had to retire in the third , giving Simpkin a place in the quarter-finals with a 3-6 , 6-1 , 1-0 victory . |
| 17 | He rejoiced in the name of Blossom , and continued to live in the converted station . |
| 18 | Macgregor 's unit returned to mapping in northeast Scotland and continued to work in the Central Coalfield . |
| 19 | The longer VT1 peptide was less stable than VT2 and tended to degrade in the bacterial extracts . |
| 20 | He was selected to run in the 100 and 200 metres in the 1924 Olympics in Paris , but declined to run in the 100 metres on religious grounds , because the heats were to be run on a Sunday . |