Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 2 | The Red Cross discovered them in Israeli custody in January 1992 and informed their families . |
| 3 | This defence caused some difficulty for the Court of Appeal when two cases raised it in quick succession in the summer and autumn of 1988 . |
| 4 | This is no fiction , but a report from the Daily Telegraph of 1864 which so impressed itself upon Ruskin that he reprinted it in red type in Sesame and Lilies : ‘ Be sure , the facts themselves are written in that colour , in a book which we shall all of us , literate or illiterate , have to read our page of , some day . ’ |
| 5 | One saw it in extreme form in the 1960s , with Alan Sharp and Archie Hind , and in a quiet way with William McIlvanney . |
| 6 | I discussed them in some detail in the chapter on event planning . |
| 7 | After murdering some of his art-loving favourites in 1482 , one group imprisoned him in reasonable comfort in Edinburgh castle and formed a provisional government . |
| 8 | This four-nil win at Watford on Saturday — their sixth in seven games — left them in third place in the First Division . |
| 9 | Mark Roe was altogether more scathing about the problem after a first round of 85 which left him in last place in the field . |
| 10 | Yet I found that the breadth of my Scottish education stood me in good stead in the work of assessing and editing material from the whole agenda of a serious newspaper . |
| 11 | The first study in recent years of this important Boston painter and teacher whose Paris training stood him in good stead in introducing into America a fascinating mixture of French Academicism , Barbizon and early Impressionism . |
| 12 | None the less , his fall from favour and loss of revenue farms and offices under the restored Commonwealth of 1659 may have been what stood him in best stead in the following year , rather than secret payments to the Royalist cause before May 1660 , for which there is no evidence beyond inference . |