Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] in [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr W. F. G. Plowden has agreed in principle to the Society having the Bishop 's Castle Railway goods van , at present used as a shed at Eaton Station House — but the Society will have to provide a shed in lieu . |
| 2 | Mrs Marcos has gained in stature during her exile . |
| 3 | What Chris Bonington has achieved in terms of single-minded organisation and drive , or what Reinhold Messner has demonstrated by his speed and panache , have been matched by Doug Scott 's determination always to try for something different and never to be satisfied by the more obvious and easier routes to success . |
| 4 | Rigoberta Menchu has lived in exile in Mexico for the past 11 years , yet the only weapons she has used in that time have been words . |
| 5 | Josephine Kelly has lived in Hereford for 15 years and is an ex mayor of the city . |
| 6 | Winnie Mandela has appeared in court in Soweto to be formally charged on four counts of kidnapping and four counts of assault with intent to commit grievous bodily harm . |
| 7 | David has worked in Bank of Ireland , Enniscorthy since 1982 . |
| 8 | As Iris Murdoch has remarked in admiration of Dickens and Tolstoy , the great novelist creates a house fit for free character to live in : free , that is , to live lives untrammelled by the allegorical or the stereotypical , to be as quirky , unpredictable , and self-contradicting as beings one knows in a real world . |
| 9 | Poul Christensen has farmed in Oxfordshire for 25 years ; a time when the European landscape has changed dramatically . |
| 10 | It will certainly be the biggest ‘ live ’ audience Wright has played in front of — and it could well be his last game for the Magpies . |
| 11 | President François Mitterrand had warned in December following the most recent city riots [ see p. 37869 ] that modern socialism had to come to grips with the management of urban society , and the worst affected local authorities had complained that they lacked resources and bore a heavy burden compared with more affluent areas . |
| 12 | The Lintons all liked her , and poor Edgar had fallen in love with her . |
| 13 | He and his wife Zita had arrived in Madeira on 19 November 1921 aboard the British cruiser Cardiff . |
| 14 | It had been a very typical contract that Mark Letterworth had contrived in outline for the sale of the turbine engines to a Moscow factory . |
| 15 | It was a standard interview room and the only non-regulation items to break the monotony of tube-legged table and chairs were the cigarettes , lighter and an ashtray advertising Tuborg lager which Malpass had placed in front of himself . |
| 16 | About that time the Tower of London fell to the rebel citizens and Bishop Stapledon of Exeter , whom Edward had left in charge of the city , was lynched : he was dragged from his horse to the great cross in Cheapside , stripped of his armour and beheaded with a bread-knife . |
| 17 | I told Shama of the years that Thesiger had spent in Iraq with the Marsh Arabs and then in Iran , that now he had a small house in Kenya deep in the country where he could get away from the towns . |
| 18 | You 're aware that on this side of the room Ryedale have stated in terms in their proof that they do not perceive this land as being part of the open countryside . |
| 19 | An extensive tree-planting programme throughout Scotland has begun in commemoration of the Diamond Jubilee of the National Trust for Scotland this year . |
| 20 | Tessa has worked in oils for approximately three years now . |
| 21 | ‘ Who says Nigel has fallen in love with me ? ’ said Juliet lightly . |
| 22 | The recent dramatic progress in relations between North and South Korea appeared threatened in March by continuing disagreements over the issue of international and bilateral inspections of nuclear facilities . |
| 23 | After Claudius had ridden in triumph into the British capital , Camulodunon , he received the submission of eleven Kings of Britain , according to the inscription on his triumphal arch in Rome . |
| 24 | All Giles had wanted in return for the small gifts he showered on her was affection . |
| 25 | Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul . |
| 26 | ( Traore had appeared in court on June 6 , charged with being an accomplice in the murder of demonstrators killed in the events leading to his overthrow , but his trial had been deferred by the court to an unspecified date . ) |
| 27 | Katherine had come in contact with him three years previously through her contacts in the London underworld . |
| 28 | Allard had arrived in Paris from Lille in the spring of 1910 and his first contacts were with the future Cubists ; because of this , his criticism is doubly interesting as representing their ideas unclouded by outside opinion . |
| 29 | A Spaniard like Picasso , Gris had arrived in Paris in 1906 and had moved into a studio adjacent to Picasso 's in the Bateau Lavoir . |
| 30 | Blevins Barricune , the ex-Op Duroc had put in charge of the city limits , came through on the intercom . |