Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee . |
| 2 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 3 | This is a different expression from that used in the 1959 Act which was " new applicants " and was taken to mean not only applicants for new certificates but also applicants for the renewal or transfer of certificates at present in the name of other persons . |
| 4 | Parallel closures occurred in the Anglican sector which between 1974 and 1989 lost 15 out of twenty-seven colleges . |
| 5 | In a discontinued action , the district judge has power , on taxation , to determine the scale of costs ( Ord 38 , r 4(7) ) and as to costs where an action is brought and tried in the High Court which could have been brought in the county court see s 19 . |
| 6 | If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying . |
| 7 | Danish defender Bjorn Kristensen hit the second-half equaliser that gave Kevin Keegan 's side a point they hardly deserved in the Anglo-Italian Cup they won when it was last staged 19 years ago . |
| 8 | Fascinated and repelled in the same moment she continued to watch the macabre spectacle despite herself , her lips parted , her eyes bright . |
| 9 | He delighted in the blue tits which hung upside down on the peanuts Jane put out , yet his job was killing chickens — just because there was no other work . |
| 10 | Darwin delighted in the exquisite adaptations which he saw in living creatures , as Paley and other natural theologians had done before him : contemplating fossils ( or nature generally ) could bring pleasure or pain depending on one 's temperament and state . |
| 11 | The modernity came in the technological skill which went into the production of the train-sheds , the great single- and double-span roofs , for which unsung engineers solved complex structural problems of weight and distribution with breath-taking brilliance and boldly utilized the new materials , iron and glass , to construct the naves and transepts of the cathedral stations . |
| 12 | Well I 'll be quite honest with you , when I came in the other day you had a couple and I 'm amazed that you 've still got them . |
| 13 | For Venturi , an important development in art criticism came in the eighteenth century which saw the foundation of aesthetics and the rise of philosophies for which art was an indispensable ingredient . |
| 14 | ‘ When he played in the second row there is no space for him to run into . |
| 15 | There had been a moment in his career , as he declared in the interesting preface he wrote to Josef Pieper 's Leisure the Basis of Culture and as Brand Blanshard has retailed in the Eliot Anniversary Issue of The Southern Review ( 1985 ) , ( ‘ Eliot at Oxford ’ ) , when , after a good deal of philosophical study , lie had decided to renounce the subject as such . |
| 16 | Though the massive reclamation of the eastern Fenlands began in the seventeenth century it was not entirely successful . |
| 17 | By the time Gabriel and he met in the late afternoon they knew that Rose had probably never got home the night before . |
| 18 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 19 | This view of prose narrative is rather different from the one implied in the Anglo-American tradition which , in its reading of fiction has systematically subordinated questions of ryuzhet to questions of realism . |
| 20 | Even when they worked in the same industry they were often employed in quite different processes : in copper mining for example at the surface not underground , and were separately waged . |
| 21 | Rooks cawed in the dark trees which ringed the house and I imagined demons nestling in the branches , mocking us . |
| 22 | Everywhere he went in the tiny house he saw her : sitting at the table , sewing , on her knees , blackleading the grate , laughing at him as she handed him his cup of tea or coffee , and holding up the doll she had dressed for him to admire . |
| 23 | I remember we saw in the other shop It happened again . |
| 24 | We decided to accelerate the measures already under way to improve efficiency and reduce costs , and this resulted in the exceptional charges we took at the half-year . |
| 25 | His chief pride lay in the talented cartoonists he fostered and encouraged . |
| 26 | One difficulty lay in the endless commissions he received , usually for illustrative work within an established vein and which left him little time to experiment . |
| 27 | Whiteley wrote that the significance of these papers lay in the valuable service they performed of establishing Swahili as a means of communication in printed form . |
| 28 | The main attraction of the Copernican theory lay in the neat way it explained a number of features of planetary motion , which could be explained in the rival Ptolemaic theory only in an unattractive , artificial way . |
| 29 | The second part of the theistic pattern sketched in the last chapter which we need to put under the microscope is that which described God both as personal and as impersonal . |
| 30 | So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful . |