Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [noun prp] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Based on David Stuart Leslie 's novel In My Solitude , the story cast Crawford in the clumsy ‘ two left feet ’ role for which he soon became familiar . |
| 2 | ( According to some accounts , a journalist told Eddington in the early 1920s that he had heard there were only three people in the world who understood general relativity . |
| 3 | Unpublished figures from Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) , Greenpeace says , indicate that 22,580 tons of toxic waste entered Britain in the first six months of this year . |
| 4 | Famine hit Ireland in the 1840s because of the genetic sameness in the Irish potato . |
| 5 | The hydrofoil left Narvik in the early evening bound for Svolvær , on what turned out to be one of the loveliest journeys I have ever taken . |
| 6 | THE SOUND OF the drill from the basement reached Lorton in the spare bedroom two floors above . |
| 7 | The important feature of Marcel and Patterson 's findings for present purposes is that semantic priming affected RTs in the left and right hemifields to an equal degree . |
| 8 | By the time the plane approached Istanbul in the late afternoon , Mark had put away several large measures of single malt Scotch . |
| 9 | Ironically , it was Watford 's first since Jason Drysdale 's penalty despatched Leeds in the third round . |
| 10 | Fellow midfielder Lawrie Sanchez , whose goal beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final , added : ‘ Every time we play them , they want to beat us to try to make up for the 1988 defeat . |
| 11 | The company developed HFCS in the 1970s ; now soft drinks giants such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi use it instead of sugar to sweeten almost all their non-diet brands and it has 30 per cent of the North American sweetener market . |
| 12 | BRADFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL represented England in the inaugural World Schools 1st XV Rugby Championship There were 16 schools from nine countries involved . |
| 13 | Saunders was on target twice and Atkinson claimed the other as Villa replaced Middlesbrough in the Premier League 's top six . |
| 14 | Mr Major 's visit to Barcelona for the last two days of the Games will mean he has spent an astonishing 80 days out of recession gripped Britain in the 20 months since he came to power . |
| 15 | The brilliant incandescence of heated lime led Welsbach in the 1880s to experiment with fabrics impregnated with nitrates of the lanthanides and actinides ; on ignition a fragile skeleton of oxides was left . |