Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know they 're on brown rings with little little tiny screw screwed in metal rings in the brown things ? |
| 2 | Fearing criticism if their bulk supply costs were better known ( unsustainable assertions on off-peak generating costs had been made to the Ministry ) , they felt that the less guidance they got in tariff making from the Authority 's bulk supply tariff the better . |
| 3 | The plea for information about alma had hundreds of people scurrying for their dictionaries , where they soon realised that the game in question did in fact go under the name of halma . |
| 4 | Moreover , even if these undesirable side effects of deflation could be disregarded and the progress towards a state of full employment did in fact correspond to the mechanism depicted in Figure 5.3 , exactly the same result could be more expeditiously achieved simply by increasing the nominal money supply . |
| 5 | There is not much sign that the King did in fact profit from the sale of offices ; but others certainly could and did . |
| 6 | ] The National Association of Health Authorities ( NAHA , 1988 ) did in fact point to the two different concepts of the ‘ Internal Market ’ . |
| 7 | The objection may be raised , " If what we are talking about in educational technology is not the promotion of AV aids but the cultivation of a systematic problem-solving attitude , why is it that so many self-styled educational technologists did in fact emerge from the audio-visual movement or related areas , and why is it that so much educational technology literature is concerned with the applications of audio-visual formats of one kind or another to learning development ? " |
| 8 | Colin Griffiths from London appeared in court charged with the killing . |
| 9 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 10 | That confiture d'oignons , for instance , for which the recipe appeared in Michel Guérard 's Cuisine Gourmande and which has since made the tour du monde surely derived from Pomiane 's dish of sweet-sour onions in which the sweetening elements were sultanas and pain d " épices , the spiced honey cake of central Europe , and which Pomiane had in turn borrowed from the Jewish cookery of his native Poland . |
| 11 | Tindle had in fact recognised in the flattened-out planks a standard trick whereby the decorative nature of the composition is reinforced . |
| 12 | A commission of enquiry confirmed this assessment , and the Governor was withdrawn , though his period of service had in fact ended in the winter of 60/61 , so Tacitus would appear to magnify a grievance to make a political point in favour of his hero whose memoirs he may have used for his Annals . |
| 13 | Imagine the horror on my beloved 's face when he discovered I had in fact flung in the rubbish his much prized and read collection of Guitarist magazines ! |
| 14 | Since the introduction of through working on the main line in 1926 , cars on the Thornton Heath service had shown the destination ‘ Greyhound ’ as their southern terminus , but had in fact reversed at the Davis Theatre ( a large cinema ) a little further down the High Street , near South End . |
| 15 | But the next day Mr Clarke insisted that nothing had in fact changed from the NHS White Paper because it had not talked of cash limits , only of firm budgets . |
| 16 | The long list of townships claimed for disafforestment had in fact remained in the Forest since the beginning of Henry III 's personal rule , and had been acknowledged and treated as such by judges and juries at successive Forest Eyres . |
| 17 | In the case of purely generic goods , if the particular goods which the seller had in mind to supply had in fact perished at the time of the contract this would not make it impossible for him to perform the contract . |
| 18 | He had occasion to stop the vehicle which was being driven by Mr and he noted that the excise licence which was being displayed had in fact expired at the end of March . |
| 19 | So down the wide staircase she goes , past the oak chest with its bowl of white roses on the half-landing , past the Albers squares , past the dim varnished portrait of a full-bosomed crimson gowned pearl-decked eighteenth-century woman who some take to be an ancestor , though she had in fact come with the house , down through the black and white tiled hall with its marble and gilt claw-legged table strewn with Christmas cards , gloves , and glossy free advertising magazines , and into the broad high first floor drawing-room , where sat Charles , drinking a gin and tonic , which she had expected , and talking to Esther and Alix , which she had not . |
| 20 | Furthermore , they doubted whether the new , austere Protestant beliefs had in fact appealed to the laity , suggesting instead that Protestantism proved highly unpopular and was only imposed on the English people through force , by means of a government-sponsored process which met with great difficulties , and was only completed late in Elizabeth I 's reign . |
| 21 | It is evident that the tourist whom railway companies , hotels and guide-books had in mind belonged to the comfortably-off middle classes . |
| 22 | He needed a minister with the strength of character , reforming zeal and awareness of technological opportunities to push through the changes in Defence policy that he had in mind to help in the consolidation of his political power . |
| 23 | Now the Korean war was a limited war in that the United St neither the United States nor the Soviet Union wished in fact to fight over the Korean peninsula . |
| 24 | She went home — alone — and sat in darkness staring at the blank face of the television until eleven , and then she went to bed and stared at the ceiling instead . |
| 25 | Some distance from the rock on which we sat in conference conferring about the future of the world , if that does n't sound too pompous — an angsana stood , a large tropical tree , its branches full of birds to which I paid no attention . |
| 26 | Bull O'Malley gaped back at him as Father Devlin sat in silence staring at the fire . |