Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Development planning first became widely known about in the 1950 's and since then various attempts have been made to help women , specifically , in underdeveloped countries with varying degrees of success . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 3 | James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France . |
| 4 | The antihistamines , which became well known late in the 1940s ( see Chapter 12 ) , turned out to have several properties which would not have been predicted from what was known about histamine . |
| 5 | These provisions define the basis for the highly complex cursus honorum of the learned profession which finally became fully elaborated only in the early eighteenth century . |
| 6 | They had all figured prominently in the election manifesto of the Labour party at the time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had already blown out in the first two matches yet still went for a practice to give me information on a different stretch for which I was grateful . |
| 11 | One of Morelli 's youthful students was Bernard Berenson , whom Morelli described in 1890 as ‘ an extraordinarily scholarly young man who had already advanced far in the study of art ’ . |
| 12 | Others had already leaped boldly in the expectation that others would follow , that it would prove wise to have been seen to take the plunge first . |
| 13 | The left side of his heart had not grown properly in the womb . |
| 14 | She had not altered overmuch in the twelve months since she was covering cars with eggs and flour and ringing doorbells with her giggling friends . |
| 15 | Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim . |
| 16 | Her education had not included much in the way of ballroom-dancing . |
| 17 | Aug. 2 , the anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait , was marked by a broadcast by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in which he described the Iraqis as the true victors in the subsequent war , on the grounds that Iraq had not backed down in the face of the enormous odds against it . |
| 18 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 19 | She had set her mind to it , and it would certainly be accomplished ; but in that winter dusk , as the rain fretted at her window , as she recalled the innocence of the child who had once sung alone in the house where her grandfather had done such wrong , Louisa Anne Agnew , already twenty-seven years old , wondered whether her life had yet properly begun at all . |
| 20 | Following a frantic phone call from the Hygiene Manager of a major food producing client near York to come and identify a ‘ slug ’ , surveyor Bob Harris from Hull was presented with a leech which had mysteriously appeared right in the middle of the factory . |
| 21 | This had also featured strongly in the campaign of former Californian Governor Jerry Brown , whilst Clinton advocated a " play or pay " model whereby businesses would either offer health cover to their employees or would pay mandatory contributions into a national health insurance fund to protect those without cover . |
| 22 | Craxi had also proposed earlier in the year that Italy should move towards a presidential form of government with greater regional autonomy . |
| 23 | Neither company could compete with the newcomers by simple price reduction because Franklin and SelecTronics had both invested heavily in the underlying quality of their products and therefore had large costs to amortise . |
| 24 | The two Flemish groups , the separatist Vlaams Bloc and the " ultra-liberal " ROSSEM , which had both performed well in the 1991 elections , were not invited to participate . |
| 25 | Out with the carp rods again and straight into fish — we had now caught somewhere in the region of eighty fish between us all on boilies ( which was n't bad considering they do n't eat them remember ) up to around 17lb . |
| 26 | The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive . |
| 27 | He would never have found out if you had n't shown up in the office . |
| 28 | And she still had n't got much in the way of new property to recompense her loss — yet here he was behaving in this lofty , inconsiderate way , as if she did n't count at all . |
| 29 | He had n't aged much in the last twenty years . |
| 30 | At the bottom end of the educational scale I remember so very clearly the instances — and there were far too many of them for my peace of mind — where the school had virtually given up in the face of difficulties . |