Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One morning , he got caught short in the bathroom and was too weak to clean it up . |
| 2 | and I said to Andrea , I says Andrea those two are two of the tills I 'd checked yesterday in the middle of the day and they were spot on I said that money went yesterday evening ! |
| 3 | ‘ The doctor will be here soon , and I 'm sure — ’ She turned as the door behind her opened , and the curly-haired doctor she 'd seen briefly in the dining-room came softly towards the bed . |
| 4 | A strong , dark , classical face , with a cleft chin and that peculiarly haunting quality she 'd seen only in the paintings of old masters . |
| 5 | Twisting the key in the ignition , she wished , belatedly , that she 'd struggled more in the barn , been more scathing … |
| 6 | After the meal she went on knitting the complicated sweater while Penry immersed himself in the newspapers he 'd bought earlier in the day . |
| 7 | McGowan vanished with a couple they 'd brought home in the car . |
| 8 | At least , she decided approvingly , dressed now in sharply creased fawn trousers and dark brown casual shirt in fine wool beneath a soft leather jacket , he appeared less of the savage she 'd encountered earlier in the day ! |
| 9 | For the briefest and most uncomfortable moment , he was made to think of the father he 'd left behind in the North of England , a man just widowed and with a stepson whom he disliked intensely . |
| 10 | I had a couple of books which I had slipped into my light case — Somerset Maugham 's novel The Moon and Sixpence , which I was looking forward to reading again because it was , of course , based on the life of the painter Gauguin , who 'd lived here in the South Seas ; and a collection of Guy de Maupassant stories , in English . |
| 11 | This time , the Prussian Royal House became involved officially in the affair and on 15 March at a Crown Council in Potsdam a decision to accept the candidature was taken . |
| 12 | The recession also led to the demand for the provision of greater economic security for the average citizen , which became embodied subsequently in the growth of the welfare state following the election of the Labour Government in 1945 . |
| 13 | The riders , about a dozen so far , had gathered together in the middle . |
| 14 | Mr Wood noted that the taste for English watercolours had developed considerably in the US over the last ten years through the support of the Paul Mellon Foundation as well as the efforts of dealers like himself . |
| 15 | A long list of criteria was trundled out to justify the eminent reasonableness of their wage claims : their members had fallen behind in the league table of wage differentials ; the cost of living had increased ; productivity had risen ; firms ' profits were high and their members were entitled to their ‘ fair ’ share . |
| 16 | Political leaders from across the assembly had resolved earlier in the week that an apparent lacuna in the rulebook which gave the neo-fascists the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship of the delegations should be filled so that the pair could be voted out of their posts . |
| 17 | However , Advani chose to take up another seat , which he had won simultaneously in the state of Gujarat . |
| 18 | She had built up a good little business in the indoor market-hall and now she and George had amassed enough in the bank to set up on a farm of their own . |
| 19 | He ruled out further help for the legalized opposition parties , saying that they needed time to win supporters , and that was why they had fared badly in the April elections . |
| 20 | Denis had sat downstairs in the sitting-room while it was going on , praying fervently to the Child of Prague , or was it to Uncle Mick , to protect his little European wife from all her pain and bring her safely through . |
| 21 | It had been quite crowded , but she had sat quietly in the corner with a drink . |
| 22 | After Tammuz and Roirbak had left Acropolis Park for their meeting with Jahsaxa Penumbra , Ari and Leila had sat together in the canteen . |
| 23 | That evening , before dinner , we had sat together in the Clerecia , watching the glib little gilded pendulum of the antique wall-clock wagging away . |
| 24 | They had looked together in the sheds , behind the dustbins . |
| 25 | President Frederick Chiluba faced a growing crisis when two Cabinet ministers who had resigned earlier in the month took part in launching on July 25 of a new party , the Caucus for National Unity ( CNU ) . |
| 26 | The first prisoners had come here in the days when the state of war between England and Germany was still largely theoretical . |
| 27 | He had come here in the autumn of 1920 . |
| 28 | The previous year , BASF , Bayer , Hoechst , Agfa and a number of smaller German companies had come together in the Interes-sengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie ( IG Farben ) . |
| 29 | He had come now in the mid-passage of his life to a forest dark and he had lost the straight path . |
| 30 | Meanwhile on Jan. 23 he was sentenced to five years in prison , after a two-day trial , for forging the document allegedly signed by Papandreou which had featured prominently in the evidence presented against Papandreou . |