Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] 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 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better come back in the house and dry your shoes and socks , ’ said Betty . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd better get back in the car . |
| 5 | James 's private quarrel with William now became irretrievably caught up in the greater feud between England and France . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The flying Scotsman had earlier missed out in the Junior TT by just 7.2 seconds in a superb contest . |