Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scale of private charity expanded remarkably in the mid-nineteenth century and offered considerable protection to the poor against the rigours of the Poor Law . |
| 2 | In the first direct contact between the MPLA government and the rebel UNITA movement since the summit at Gbadolite ( Zaïre ) in June 1989 [ see p. 36726 ] , high ranking delegations from each side met secretly in the Portuguese town of Evora on April 24-25 . |
| 3 | Cardiff attacked gamely in the final quarter and scored a late try through Jeffreys . |
| 4 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 5 | These were the fighting heroes of their day , whose exploits lived long in the popular imagination . |
| 6 | John Ashenden , seated alone in the front nearside seat , debated with himself about reaching for the microphone and saying a few words about Somerville College , the Radcliffe Infirmary , the Tower of the Winds , the large , late nineteenth-century redbrick residences , St Edward 's School … |
| 7 | Queens and princesses , officials and servants , all lived together in the great sanctuary chamber . |
| 8 | At Mandru , the Lady Nehushtah , Mandru 's exotic Ixibatabian wife , had male as well as female attendants , and all the Ixmaritians lived together in the same building , regardless of their gender . |
| 9 | He dictated to her many of the hymns that are still in use by the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist — many of whose tunes are exactly the same — bar one or two notes — as the ones the real John Wesley cobbled together in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Tunnel linings on the British side are generally of the expanded grouted type used successfully in the 1973–75 project but in poorer ground cast iron linings are used . |
| 11 | Lightning flickered noiselessly in the western sky . |
| 12 | An aeroplane taking 22 men of the Special Air Service Regiment in June 1944 to be dropped behind the German lines to join the Maquis was recalled on account of bad weather , crashed somewhere in the wooded area near Dijon and no trace has since been found of the plane and its company . |
| 13 | They moved mostly in the early morning or the evening , for they dry out easily and can not withstand the full tropical sun . |
| 14 | " She did n't really love him , " Sarah shouted aloud in the empty house , and blushed as if there were a part of Enid lurking somewhere that could overhear her . |
| 15 | Indeed , his capital city of Aachen ( Aix la Chapelle ) was partly chosen because of its hot springs , where Charles swam daily in the great bath . |
| 16 | The Tyne was heavily polluted , from about Prudhoe down to the sea , but after rain , salmon swam upstream in the clean water on top of the flood . |
| 17 | Almost identical in size and looks to this prosimian ancestor of ours is the extraordinary tarsier , a primate just six inches tall , found only in the high jungle canopy of Indonesia and the Philippines . |
| 18 | AGAIN related to a case reported only in the Daily Mail . |
| 19 | A small fountain pattered gently in the big reception hall . |
| 20 | They moved together in the friendly darkness , opening their arms to each other . |
| 21 | Again , this is a complex notion in itself , so it is hardly surprising that some respondents found it difficult to reply to the questions : Has the conceptual map of your subject changed much in the last decade ? |
| 22 | If we are of a lazier disposition , the solution is simple and usually quite acceptable : if the same note will occur in two or more parts it can be omitted where it is least necessary and retained only in the principal part ( thus in Example 140 we would keep the E♭ only in the upper voice , to retain the melodic shape ) . |
| 23 | The absence of spontaneous contractions in the normal gullet is related to the nature of the oesophageal smooth muscle cells , which have a stable membrane potential and do not show the characteristic slow wave activity found elsewhere in the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 24 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 25 | Of course I simply wandered away in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | He did extend his stay , helped to arrange and classify the Sherard collection of plants , many obtained from Greece and Asia Minor , and found more in the Botanic Garden to take back to Holland . |
| 27 | The girls rose stiffly in the green shade and turned to the sunlit meadow . |
| 28 | Within the castle precincts and close to the Saxon church of St Mary-in Castro are the remains of a Roman lighthouse , or pharos , built early in the imperial occupation of Britain to guide cross-channel vessels . |
| 29 | Speed had dropped back and Wallace moved upwards in the second half . |
| 30 | Fortified by a beautiful lunch of belly pork and fried onions , Yanto wandered contentedly in the general direction of the Blue Boar . |