Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] in [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
| 2 | Pippin , the first of the line , had destined it for his first-born , the young Charlemagne in the 750s ; Charlemagne had assigned it in 790 to his son Charles , later labelled primogenitus and designated heir to the regnum Francorum ( though he predeceased his father in 811 ) . |
| 3 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 4 | She did n't know what it meant but had seen it in some of the old books in the Doctor 's TARDIS . |
| 5 | He had found her in one of the outlying villages . |
| 6 | An administrative career , and after 1848 his Bonapartist background , had led him in 1852 to the important prefectorate of Bordeaux , where he had hosted the famous reception in November of that year at which Louis-Napoleon in the course of his official speech had virtually inaugurated the Empire . |
| 7 | Haverford was clear on the answer to that one ; he had mentioned it in several of his ‘ Jottings ’ . |