Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [noun sg] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE West Country , together with East Anglia , came out top in a recent satisfaction survey by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts . |
| 2 | He came out top in the mechanical engineering section of the competition , run by CAD User magazine . |
| 3 | He passed out top in the Foreign Office entrance exam after Oxford and began work in Whitehall on the European Political Co-operation desk , ironically named given that at that time General de Gaulle was thwarting Britain 's European ambitions . |
| 4 | The dog curled a lip at me but made no sound , then took up position in the front room doorway . |
| 5 | He now took up residence in a small house at South Bank , Regent 's Park , in order , according to one authority , to be near his medical advisers . |
| 6 | Several young couples took up residence in a neighbouring parish at the start of their married lives but returned later to inherit the family property . |
| 7 | Dr Ottokar Proctor , ‘ The Tasmanian Devil , ’ today took up residence in the high-security wing of this semi-private mental hospital . |
| 8 | ‘ The Myrcans , when they were first created out of Dwarf-hewn and Giant-riven stone , took up residence in the broad Dale of Glen-arric , and in time that place became known as Merkadale , as it still is called today . |
| 9 | The ‘ naked ’ crab moved about 60 cm ( 2 ft ) away while the first crab nipped out of its damaged shell and took up residence in the new one . |
| 10 | It had rained for a fortnight when he , his wife and two children took up residence in the 12 room Ben Alder Lodge . |
| 11 | Brooklyn born , he gave up academia in the 70 's to work in theatre and write plays . |
| 12 | She edged out Hatoof in a tight finish to the Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp on Arc day and holds Central City — also in today 's Newbury field — on earlier running in the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot , when the pair were second and third to another unbeaten filly , Marling . |
| 13 | Mark Ainger read from the roughly chalked up notice in the steamy window . |
| 14 | It was during this period that a young buyer for Adidas based in Liverpool ( but originally from Yorkshire ) set up shop in a small back-street in Liverpool City Centre . |
| 15 | In their second year , Robyn and Charles moved off campus and set up house in a small flat in Brighton , commuting to the University by local train . |
| 16 | Anyway , the Tallentires never gave up their music because when Grandfather Tallentire set up house in a little farm called Northside he went to buy an organ but took a fancy to a piano and came back with that instead . |