Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms . |
| 2 | He records : ‘ I quickly felt at home in England . |
| 3 | I then waited until midnight in a tiny village where the local people plied me with beer and chickens until I could barely move . |
| 4 | Returning to camp in the evenings , I occasionally hunted for bushbuck in the forest . |
| 5 | She long acted as examiner in geography for various institutions , and her influence on the training of the next generation of students of geography was substantial . |
| 6 | And you always worked by time in stables , you 'd get out at say , you went at six o'clock , you got out till seven and were out two hours , that 's seven , eight , nine . |
| 7 | While a student at Edinburgh , Marion Newbigin had come under the influence of J. Arthur Thompson , whom she later succeeded as lecturer in biology and zoology at the School of Medicine for Women . |
| 8 | She also suffered from arthritis in the wrists , the fingers and the ankles and she was unable to turn her head at all ; this was due to a car accident several years before when she had suffered from whiplash . |
| 9 | And then she 'll take you apart bit by bit in this very park when all the teachers have slunk off home . |
| 10 | We hastily put to sea in deteriorating weather conditions , the freshening easterly wind pushing up a lumpy swell for which this area is notorious . |
| 11 | We never felt at home in London , somehow . |
| 12 | Another achievement , which both Christine and Bernie are proud of , is the ban on hunting on council-owned land that they successfully campaigned for back in 1982 . |
| 13 | He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers . |
| 14 | As penal aims , they both led to injustice in retributive terms . |
| 15 | However , they increasingly returned to work in both the public and private sectors once their children were in school , but tended to do so part-time ( see Manley and Sawbridge , 1980 ) . |
| 16 | Oxford 's Elizabethan and Stuart fishermen were not poor but they never rose to prominence in the city , despite being well-connected on occasion . |
| 17 | After nearly two centuries of grinding corn , it eventually fell into disuse in the 1860s , at which time it housed the miller and his large family . |
| 18 | But although he learnt such skills as writing feasibility studies , he soon tired of life in the grant-aided voluntary sector . |
| 19 | This he promptly brought into action in defence of his small brother , ran the farmer against a wall and threatened to run the fork through the aggressor . |
| 20 | Basil would get very excited at finding tadpoles and caddis worms in the Hampstead ponds but though he once took to fishing in a small stream when we were on holiday , and actually caught a small fish , which Marion cooked for his tea , he was quite unable to eat it , being stricken with remorse at its demise . |
| 21 | After Oliver Cromwell became lord protector , Bishop gradually turned over his duties to John Thurloe [ q.v. ] and retired to Bristol , where he unsuccessfully stood for Parliament in 1654 . |
| 22 | He also came under attack in his capacity as a revenue farmer and would-be monopolist . |
| 23 | He also knew about work in the USA and USSR from the mid 1970s on metallic hydrogen . |
| 24 | Er , it probably came into fashion in the , something like the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | He then went into research in tropical medicine . |
| 26 | Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence . |
| 27 | It subsequently went into receivership in that same year , with estimated debts of more than £5 million . |
| 28 | He certainly seemed below par in the few mid-season matches last year , but the whole team looked poor in those . |