Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it rained they played squash or swam in the indoor pool . |
| 2 | For two summer holidays my parents took a Prep school outside Westerham and from here we bicycled over half of Kent with our Father or played on the small school fields or swam in the local swimming bath . |
| 3 | For in one follow-up meeting after another , in Belgrade and Madrid and finally Vienna , the human rights standards laid down at Helsinki were refined and tightened , while Romanian internal policies either stood still or moved in the other direction , that is to say downhill . |
| 4 | as if this were n't enough , we bounced on oversized ball , wielded staves for posture , learnt national dances and songs , explored the mediaeval charms of Coburg and neighbouring Bamberg or wallowed in the thermal baths of Rodach — and of course consumed enormous and excellent meals at the college , supplemented with German cakes in the town ( not to mention German wine … — . |
| 5 | In some cemeteries an annual or regular service is held to which all the families and friends of people who have been buried or cremated in the last year are invited . |
| 6 | 4.2.2 Is a move advisable now or reconsidered in the near future ? |
| 7 | The war seemed remote as she and John wandered through woods , scuffling their feet through crisp fallen leaves , or lay in the deep feather bed in the farmhouse bedroom . |
| 8 | Now that he had arrived at the wildest part of Britain , he wished to use his adventure in the same spirit as that in which Montaigne wrote his famous Essais — as trials of himself , as investigations of the ideas that arose in the non-stop chatter of his mind . |
| 9 | Two kicks of his big flippers were sufficient to send him drifting back up towards the surface that quivered in the harsh sunlight like a sheet of liquid mercury . |
| 10 | The machine bumped up on a stony track that led in the general direction of the distant barn . |
| 11 | What ways did the families differ then that lived in those sort of houses to the families that lived in the terraced houses ? |
| 12 | Shallow cores show that the pebbly sands and clays that came originally came from the ice-sheet contain shells that lived in the shallower waters of the continental shelf . |
| 13 | The Orcs spent weeks in the darkness , fighting off the monstrosities that lived in the cursed city . |
| 14 | Giving up on the sheep , she stared at the curtain that fluttered in the cool breeze through the ill-fitting window and tried to recapture the warmth and pleasure of their lovemaking , the feel of his body moving with hers , but was unable to shut out the infuriating sound of the steady drip into the bucket like Chinese water-torture . |
| 15 | Houses lined the road , built of the local Cotswold limestone that weathered to different shades of gold that glowed in the warm sunlight . |
| 16 | The oddest is that used in the fourteenth century by the English historian Adam of Murimuth . |
| 17 | Rogers dipped a wing so that he could watch the aeroplane tumble away , lopsided , dwindling to a grey-brown fragment that flickered in the early sunlight . |
| 18 | Yeah — i have not mentioned Ronny before — he has not been a regular in our national team — but he did play against Holland in our 0–0 away draw and he was also the man that headed in the 3–0 goal on wednesday in Norway 's humiliation of Poland . |
| 19 | A typical theoretical framework is that proposed in the first chapter of Bell ( 1991 ) , discussing the methodological requirements of translation . |
| 20 | Table II shows this further by the changes in juice concentrations that occurred in the two subgroups according to whether the final plasma vitamin C concentration was high or low . |
| 21 | Erm you were telling me when we had the preliminary interview about erm what happened a few months prior to the disturbances that occurred in the late Summer . |
| 22 | The data below relate to the 1179 perinatal deaths that occurred in the 114362 singleton deliveries to women resident in Leicestershire during 1978–87 regardless of place of delivery . |
| 23 | The riots that occurred in the British cities in 1981 and in Brixton and Tottenham subsequently , were an expression of the double — class and racist — nature of ethnic disadvantage in Britain . |
| 24 | PERINATAL MORTALITY RATION — The annual number of late fetal deaths plus infant deaths during the early neonatal period ( sometimes infant deaths during the first month of life ) per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same year . |
| 25 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |
| 26 | Everything that occurred in the educational sphere after 1927 was no more than a " clearing-up " operation . |
| 27 | When the form of socialism is that found in the Soviet Union and most Eastern European states , with different social and economic organizations integrated into a single , state-wide organization , society is ruled by an apparatus which is largely bureaucratic and which attempts to integrate all collective activities . |
| 28 | One of the most innovative systems is that found in the optical mouse used with the Xerox Star business computer . |
| 29 | The soft glow of the Enlightenment was merely the surface heat of a great fire that exploded in the volcanic fury of the French Revolution . |
| 30 | A mild protest could ignite feelings that burned in the manly chests of the arrogant young . |