Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 2 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 3 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 4 | In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs . |
| 5 | Mills arose in the remote valleys below the moors , and hamlets and villages quickly clustered around them . |
| 6 | That night , Ted and Jim met in the local pub to discuss the situation . |
| 7 | The bodies of nine crewman who were killed when their Hercules crashed in the Scottish Highlands a week ago , will be flown back to RAF Lyneham tomorrow . |
| 8 | ( 1988 b ) support this interpretation by demonstrating that the VS pre-exposure treatment will produce perfectly good latent inhibition when the CS used in the conditioning phase is itself vinegar followed by sucrose , an arrangement that should ensure that the same representation of vinegar is activated on both occasions . |
| 9 | Luce surfaced in the early hours of the morning to find that she was still enfolded in Michele 's arms . |
| 10 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |
| 11 | It is clear in any case that the growing size of the middle class must change fundamentally the image of capitalist society as one in which class antagonisms are simplified , and ‘ society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ , which Marx and Engels depicted in the Communist Manifesto and which Marxists and other socialists generally accepted without much questioning until the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | Morley excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and kindred forms ; the supreme masters of the English school were Weelkes , who published his first book in 1597 , and John Wilbye ( 1574–1638 ) who began the following year . |
| 13 | And what we have are as follows , one , a manual , which Dennis mentioned in the red folder . |
| 14 | But he and Eleanor moved in the same set socially . |
| 15 | SURREY rallied in the final quarter to beat Essex Metropolitan 59–55 and retain the English Counties League title on Saturday . |
| 16 | That first visit when I stayed at the Al Ain Hilton seemed in the dim past . |
| 17 | It 's funny er when Richard came in the other day and said he 'd been he 'd been to the dentist and you said oh well they have n't been in touch with us yet . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a chap called Summers came in the other day . |
| 19 | Paul Weston scored in the first half for Stockton , but it was not until the last five minutes that Paul Bromley crossed for their second try . |
| 20 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 21 | Müncheberg 's Staffel returned in the early evening as escorts to Italian bombers , engaging six Hurricanes over Luqa . |
| 22 | In January 1863 Golovnin acquiesced in the outright transfer of responsibility for censorship to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 23 | So saying , Rocky called in the four man crew who helped the driver of the other rig to raise his ramp and close the doors . |
| 24 | Jean worked in the same department as a Spotter and Darner since she joined the company in 1969 . |
| 25 | Frankie blinked in the bright light , then turned his gaze reluctantly to the arched alcove on his left . |
| 26 | Delaney , Nell and Andrevitch lay in the cramped area of a bifurcation of the vent , dark , claustrophobic , sweating — but safe . |
| 27 | Meredith shivered in the damp air , wondering how many merchants had stored their riches here in the past . |
| 28 | Increasing pressure for the relaxation of the strict deadlines for motor vehicle emission standards and for the attainment of NAAQSs resulted in the Clean Air Amendments of 1977 . |
| 29 | Much of the continuing Soviet obsession with CENTO was directed against Iran , whose position in CENTO was reinforced by the effective military guarantee from the United States contained in the bilateral agreement of 1959 . |
| 30 | ( Notice the similarity between this analysis and the reinterpretation of Keynes outlined in the previous section . ) |