Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 2 | The Frenchman had swept past him , and now tried to turn in the clinging rye . |
| 3 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |
| 4 | He tried to take in the surrounding countryside that was to be his home during the months that lay ahead — if he lived that long . |
| 5 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 6 | In particular the Polish government ( supported by the UK government , with which Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki had talks in London on Feb. 14 , and by Modrow , who visited Warsaw on Feb. 16 ) sought to participate in the second phase of the two-plus-four talks . |
| 7 | However , when the results of the referendum were known , it agreed to participate in the new system . |
| 8 | Only 12 per cent of parents interviewed chose a different school from the one currently attended ; the majority opted to remain in the maintained sector . |
| 9 | He crossed the room then slowly lowered himself to his knees before the great tablet , conscious of how the gold leaf of the Ywe Lung seemed to flow in the wavering light of the candles ; how the red lacquer of the background seemed to burn . |
| 10 | We learnt to swim in the opaque water with our little slips sewn up half way seamwise . |
| 11 | The moon was high overhead — a bright , full moon that seemed to float in the dark mirror of the water . |
| 12 | He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species . |
| 13 | The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject . |
| 14 | They seemed to glow in the flickering green-gold gold light , as if embraced by a holy nimbus . |
| 15 | Kenilworth was very different from Warwick ; a great red sandstone ruin that almost seemed to glow in the curious half-light as the storm clouds rolled nearer . |
| 16 | Her long blonde hair , freshly washed , seemed to glow in the dull light from the chandeliers . |
| 17 | Around her neck , the white-on-white semi-circle of scar tissue seemed to glow in the dim light , like something itself luminous . |
| 18 | As for Edmund , the Danes themselves may have supported his cult , as the Danish rulers of East Anglia came to do in the ninth century , and if so he would eventually have become a means of reconciliation between the two peoples . |
| 19 | With some telepathy at work , his questing glance came to rest in the exact square of window in which her face appeared . |
| 20 | it came to rest in the soft ground 100 yards on . |
| 21 | The sentence seemed to hang in the still air with the thin grey smoke escaping from his lips . |
| 22 | That last dangerous statement seemed to hang in the sunlit air between them for a very long time . |
| 23 | The sentence seemed to hang in the cold morning air with the whisp of vapour it had left behind . |
| 24 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 25 | His olive skin seemed to glint in the soft light of the hallway ; the flat behind him was almost totally dark . |
| 26 | Maybe I was less fortunate than my colleagues in my experience of Heathrow , but even my landlady in Twickenham was a most severe character , as mean as mustard with food and I seemed to live in the expensive Airport restaurant even when I was off duty . |
| 27 | In 1955 a solitary bottlenose dolphin came to live in the remote Hokianga Harbour in Northland , New Zealand , and was soon to cause a sensation . |
| 28 | The stones in a wall seemed to ripen in the hot sunshine . |
| 29 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 30 | Once again I felt the mysterious pleasure of being in an elevated Oxford chamber at night , among cloud and star , — so that I seemed to join in the inevitable motion of the planets , — and as I saw the sea of roofs and horned turrets and spires I knew that , although architecture is a dead language , here at least it speaks strongly and clearly , pompous as Latin , subtle as Greek . |