Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , an awful lot of breasts got painted out in the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 3 | Many of the changes that helped to bring about in the 1970s a new , more fragmented and more intractable congress would have happened irrespective of the misdemeanours of the Nixon administration . |
| 4 | They seemed to give up in the second half , failed to mark anyone , gave Wallace ( who was running riot ) as much space as he wanted , and left Quinn up , waddling around ( usually into an offside position ) like a half-deflated barrage baloon ( with a tache ) . |
| 5 | My dad , who , as I have already told you , was a docker by trade , never seemed to take that much interest in any of us and though he could sometimes earn as much as a pound a week , the money always seemed to end up in the Black Bull , where it was spent on pint after pint of ale , and gambled away on games of cribbage or dominoes in the company of our next-door neighbour , Bert Shorrocks , a man who never seemed to speak , just grunt . |
| 6 | He 'd begun back in the fifties as a prison officer . |
| 7 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 8 | It began to break down in the post-war years and during that period , too , the concentration of control functions in London also began to increase . |
| 9 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 10 | ‘ … the idea of pedestrian/vehicle segregation began to take off in the 1950s and much of the pioneer work was done in the new towns . |
| 11 | After days of reflection she decided to write back in the same icy terms Philip had used with her . |
| 12 | He had a potter about and a chat and decided to set up in the far corner to our left . |
| 13 | Disconnected , their instrument of memory fails to record anything of those common night-time moments that preceded lying down in the marital bed . |
| 14 | With a mother who was active in B'nai B'rith , Anne Barth was offered a place on one of the early Kindertransporte , but her parents decided to hold back in the faint hope that conditions would improve . |
| 15 | If he managed to win through in the first round , there is now a second round of contests to be staged , followed by the final round later in the year . |
| 16 | Calico , which got started back in the early 1980s and which Unir claims AT&T could n't push because of USL and C++ , has reportedly 200 man/years invested in it . |
| 17 | That the original Phillips curve did break down in the late 1960s is clearly illustrated in Fig. 6.3 where the curve estimated by Phillips is shown together with the observed combination of the unemployment percentage and the rate of wage inflation from 1966 to 1985 . |
| 18 | If not I suggest it should be and , er , therefore if unfortunately the profits of the company did go down in the foreseeable future the salaries of yourself and your directors would be reduced . |
| 19 | Most probably he got waffling on in the Royal Oak and that . |
| 20 | Either he left when he discovered the pregnancy , or he had already gone , or the relationship had broken up in the first year or two after having the baby , when he had been unwilling or unable to settle down and take the responsibility . |
| 21 | If the liquid was meant to flow into the chamber from some high point on the hillside and then out to the tank supplying the house , it had given up in the hot weather and was no longer doing so . |
| 22 | If anybody asked , she could say she 'd come back for her shoe that had fallen off in the stumbling mess of wrecked furniture . |
| 23 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |
| 24 | She had curled up in the deep old window seat , the velvet coverlet from the bed wrapped about her for warmth , and had drifted in and out of an uneasy sleep . |
| 25 | Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net . |
| 26 | My only other close encounter with a paraglider was finding one grounded in a quagmire in the Arrochar Alps , where the poor man had come down in the wrong glen , leaving him miles to walk back to any road . |
| 27 | Since a few ladies who had been at the tea would also be at the committee meeting , and , anyway , Boyd had messed up her best black afternoon dress , she wore now a pretty gown in green wool which she had picked up in the last sale at Eaton 's . |
| 28 | He had dozed off in the first act , but always does after luncheon wherever he is , he explained . |
| 29 | He had grown up in the splendid sixties , had been born with a silver spoon in his mouth , enjoyed whatever he did to the hilt and was enough of a gentleman never to look back . |
| 30 | Essentially , there had grown up in the 1930s a system of subsidies which enabled milk to be bought cheaply by local education authorities for distribution ( free or at minimal cost ) to children . |