Example sentences of "[vb past] in [adj] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another surfaced in African Analaysis suggesting it was an Israeli atomic bomb test which set off the fatal discharge of poisonous gases and the monstrous tidal wave from the lake that swamped the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | And you went , you went in that Triumph did you to the |
| 3 | What she said to me on the subject of the race riots and how she felt in that context makes me think that this stage in her life was nothing to do with race . |
| 4 | The revolution that resulted in molecular biology enabled us to begin to understand many of the processes in the cell at the molecular level , although it must be stressed that we have a long way to go . |
| 5 | Caboc is a cows ' milk cheese made in small cylindrical shapes and rolled in toasted oatmeal to give it a more distinctive flavour . |
| 6 | I did n't enjoy hurting friends , but each blow did in some way help me to cope with a temper . |
| 7 | they , those people do n't like it altered in any way do they ? |
| 8 | His infuriated wife , who had learned little of him since his departure , and had in all probability imagined him on a chain gang in some inhospitable region , had since learned that her husband was enjoying a rich existence with the high rollers of Sydney . |
| 9 | Grateful though he was — and there are few examples of anyone more grateful and generous than he was to those who had in any way helped him or even just been around in the bad times — he was not going to be craven or knuckle down like a goody-two-shoes . |
| 10 | That he had in some way taken her aback was as obvious to him as the reason was obscure . |
| 11 | If only he knew that looking after his dogs had made her feel that she had just the smallest stake in his life , that it had in some measure comforted her for his absence . |