Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this review of change in Europe and the USA has shown , there were a number of important experiments in the 1940s and 1950s which , coincident with the development of mood-stabilizing drugs , suggested that a significant number of long-term patients could be successfully boarded out in the community . |
| 2 | AS Alan Irons so rightly pointed out in The Scotsman Sportsview yesterday , the concern of England 's Jonathan Webb and Dewi Morris for the injured Craig Chalmers in the one-hundredth playing of the Calcutta Cup was no different from the chivalrous camaraderie of bygone days . |
| 3 | They began to realise that many procedures had been wrongly carried out in the management of the case , in particular that the Social Work Department were not implementing the decisions of the Children 's Panel . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 5 | This recovery has been made necessary because , as we have seen , the rhetorical and historical use of anthropology got so disastrously mixed up in the work of the founders and produced a false picture of the idyllic classless community which was later termed primitive communism and then got further confused with the type of society the Marxists were trying to construct in the future . |
| 6 | The Jarvis family had all come down in the world , considering the money their Victorian grandfather , a manufacturer of bathroom fittings , had made for them , Ernest with the dwindling Cambridge School , Evelina nutty as a squirrel 's cage and with her first sojourn in a nursing home behind her , Cecilia married to a Customs officer . |
| 7 | There was a seriously dangerous note in his voice now , Cassie thought , so caught up in the play that she hardly realized that she was part of the script and it was she whom Johnny was talking about . |
| 8 | They were very much caught up in the opinion that if they were an indie band , it could n't possibly be worth a major record company taking them seriously . |
| 9 | He was all curled up in the gutter , naked . |
| 10 | In fact , she won the history prize so many times that last term she was given it to keep , having only missed out in the second-year . |
| 11 | He was an unhappy personality , who had obviously grown up in the shadow of his father and had decided that the assumption of a totally aggressive demeanour was the only way of maintaining a personality of his own that would be distinct from that of his famous , indeed most famous — parent . |
| 12 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 13 | One grey-haired captain , a rough old chap , sat and sat not saying a word , mute as a mackerel , then suddenly got up in the middle of the room ad , you know , said aloud as if speaking to himself , ‘ If there 's no God then what sort of a Captain am I after that ? ’ , ad seized his cap and threw up his arms and went out . |
| 14 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 15 | She was so wrapped up in the portrait that she heard nothing until the clink of glass told her she was not alone , and as she spun round she found Alain turning from pouring himself a drink . |
| 16 | However , it is a less expressive image , as it is a less expressive moment , for while he is so wrapped up in the action of taking the shot she can not reveal much more than that furtive concentration that takes over any face in the act of intensive looking . |
| 17 | Voices were suddenly raised over in the crowd and people began scattering to the edges of the area , clearing the centre and falling silent . |
| 18 | Do n't get so bogged down in the trivia of life you have n't the time or inclination to branch out and see what 's on offer . |
| 19 | He is the son of the phallic mother who has overcome her and fused with her to become a living equivalent of the perfect primal mother , not through self-castration ( the depressive alternative ) , but through manic self-assertion : a sentiment nicely summed up in the ritual of Cybele and her son Attis : ‘ a feeding on milk , as though we were born again ; after which rejoicing and garlands and as it were a return to the gods . |
| 20 | Fintan Cahill only arrived back in the country yesterday from Florida , scarcely the ideal championship preparation . |
| 21 | And I suggest libraries and museums , because I dare say they have the greatest experience in information co-ordination systems erm , within the , within the council , and I think , er , and of course they 're highly involved out in the community . |
| 22 | Patricia and Sue were more than fed up with being constantly left out in the cold , usually on the pavement outside women 's events because of lack of physical access . |
| 23 | A lifestyle involving hard work , charity , abstinence from drink , strict morality , and thrift was deemed absolutely essential , as it was not only insisted on in the Bible , but was also seen as a sign of an individual 's elect status . |
| 24 | A potential consignment was purportedly held back in the hope of a higher price . |
| 25 | Obsessionals are very good at dividing up their minds as it were , but they 're not necessarily divided up in the sense of conscious and unconscious . |
| 26 | The loyalty oath duly turned up in the book — Major Major is blacklisted and is thereby debarred from taking the oath . |
| 27 | He was soon caught up in the wartime expansion of government activity , being concerned mainly with the regulation of foreign trade . |
| 28 | The questions tumbled from him as he went hand in hand with Beth , down the stairs and into the kitchen , where Peggy was soon caught up in the excitement . |
| 29 | So I think the seminar itself was n't giving you much new stuff , it was stuff that we 've already picked up in the course . |
| 30 | However , in the preparation of final-year seminar papers and dissertations , or if you continue on at college as a research student , you will need to find out details of all the work that others have already carried out in the field in which you are interested . |