Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Slowly , an image built up in the mirrored lens . |
| 32 | It can readily be seen that the sum of constant capital ( C ) used up in the two departments is equal to the sum of means of production produced in Dept . |
| 33 | It can now be seen that the sum of constant capital used up in the two departments during the production cycle is less than the total means of production produced by Dept . |
| 34 | In Elizabethan days , three hundred years later , the solitary farm of Newton , standing upon the heath that petered out in the muddy flats of the bay , alone marked the site of Edward I 's ‘ new town ’ . |
| 35 | She hailed it , gave the Chinese driver her address in a monotone , and sank back in the air-conditioned interior , staring at the white skyscrapers below . |
| 36 | He swam around in the cold plunge for five minutes to close his pores , then towelled himself vigorously before jumping on the scales in the rest room . |
| 37 | Culley moved around in the small space close to the window . |
| 38 | His front paws rested on the heather as his back legs thrashed about in the dog-sized hole . |
| 39 | Many years ago Gross and his colleagues found neurons at higher levels in the visual pathway in which the vigour of the response varied strongly with details of the shape of an object moved about in the visual field . |
| 40 | The loss of Acre in 1291 had a symbolic significance for all the nobilities of western Europe , but a sense of unfulfilled obligation still lingered on in the testamentary dispositions of Gascon nobles . |
| 41 | Rocky came on in the 60th minute but could not affect the game . |
| 42 | Paul came on in the second half of the game in Dublin last week and played well . |
| 43 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 44 | Philip dropped down in the old bracken . |
| 45 | A bird came down in the topmost branches of the tree in which the cat lay in wait . |
| 46 | We returned from our walk aglow with wind-reddened cheeks , divested ourselves of boots and outer layers of wrapping and flopped down in the deep chairs of the sunset-lit lounge chatting , until David left at around 10 p.m . |
| 47 | ‘ The call came through in the normal way and we dealt with it as we normally would , ’ he said . |
| 48 | It should be noted , however , that an alternative hypothesis has been suggested for the formation of the Straits of Dover by Stamp ( 1927 ) , who thought that they were due to the southwards overflow of a proglacial lake ponded up in the southern North Sea by an ice front stretching from England to Holland . |
| 49 | Two nights later he woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly . |
| 50 | I woke up in the early hours of the morning and it was still there — the first thing that come into my head . |
| 51 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 52 | ‘ And once he woke up in the early morning , and saw a rat in the middle of the floor , looking at him . |
| 53 | More to him perhaps than the relief afforded by the crude sex was the fact that he woke up in the meagre home of a real working woman , warm like a picture by Chardin ; ‘ a wooden floor with a mat and a piece of old crimson carpet , an ordinary kitchen stove , a chest of drawers , a large simple bed . ’ |
| 54 | … One of the topics came up in the following week 's Science lesson … the girls took great delight in showing the boys how to perform the tasks ! … the improvement in their confidence was most marked . ’ |
| 55 | The Common Good Fund and they , they had you know all I mean you know they had all feelers out for all , all the things , so there are a couple of dates which came up in the last meeting erm for further pilots and then the intention is to just go ahead from |
| 56 | Has it occurred to the Minister that the problem is that there are plenty of young people camped out in the open air , but that they do not have any work ? |
| 57 | Stevie Gallagher 's shot was brilliantly saved by Andy Blackwood as Dunmurry came back in the second half but the visitors went two ahead through a penalty by Andy McMenamin and the cross from the right was turned in by Gareth Healey for the third with eight minutes left . |
| 58 | and I went out to tell him and he started talking to me for something and when I came back in the fucking milk ! |
| 59 | But after six weeks the colour came back in the same region . |
| 60 | As part of the growing concept of community care , spelt out in the 1963 Health and Welfare : the Development of Community Care plans , many authorities have recognized that the physically disabled , like the elderly , usually want to retain their independence and avoid entering homes as long as possible . |