Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 2 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 3 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 4 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 5 | Now a widow , Mabel has made her home in the compact whitewashed building , tucked in one of Whitby 's historic yards . |
| 6 | His climbing achievements are many , but it is his attempts on Everest which have lodged him firmly in the public consciousness . |
| 7 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's absurd — I look on Margaret as my best friend , but I 've only seen her once in the last six months — I do feel guilty about it . ’ |
| 9 | They 're sure to give the go-ahead , otherwise they would n't have chucked it out in the first place . |
| 10 | Perhaps they had even bought them together in the same store , on the same day . |
| 11 | That much was real estate , available to anyone with the right money , although it did n't help to discover that Alison and her late husband , a philosophy don at Balliol , had bought it back in the early sixties for less than £2,000 . |
| 12 | And since he 'd opened it up in the first place — and he definitely owed David Dennis a drink for putting him onto it — every chance of a couple of TV spots on the strength of it . |
| 13 | you see , I mean what they do is soon as they 've kicked them out in the mental homes they 're having to put them in to erm , I mean erm , there are people who are not able to be on their own , I mean the ones they 've kicked out are people that have been depressed and say well you 've got to find , get your family to help , I mean , when you 've got somebody depressed in your family you try and help them |
| 14 | The baby-faced rapist knocked on her door in the early hours , claiming to be a neighbour who had locked himself out in the pouring rain . |
| 15 | Could that even have been why Branson had invited her back in the first place ? |
| 16 | Selene never again made a long speech , but she was happy ; and after Mrs Gracie died Dinah took shares in the business , which by then had set itself up in the old Asshe house while Dinah moved out to Hampstead . |
| 17 | After Gary Blissett had pulled one back in the 78th minute , substitute Marcus Gayle missed a great chance four minutes from the final whistle to level it . |
| 18 | Her mother had brought her up in the strict religion of the Mormon church , which made her very guilty about having sex . |
| 19 | By the time that Lothar arrived in Paris , probably in the 1180s , perhaps earlier , the theology taught there was no longer the speculative , probing theology of Peter Abelard ( which was perhaps the reputation that had brought him there in the first place ) , but had become more concerned with practical issues and doctrine . |
| 20 | Ralph had laid it down in the 1950s . |
| 21 | That area of your life not only is of no interest to me , but I also consider it in very poor taste that you should have brought it up in the first place ! ’ |
| 22 | And , if it had not been for the speedy response from the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 23 | And if it had not been for the speedy response of the coastguard , the boys would have found themselves out in the open sea . |
| 24 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 25 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 26 | Tina would have plumped herself down in the nearest seat even if this had been next to a passenger but Cecilia , conforming to usage , sat in the emptiest area of the coach , on the platform side with her back to the window . |
| 27 | Over twenty years the two great polo dynasties had battled it out in the Argentine Open at Palermo . |
| 28 | The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector . |
| 29 | It seems to epitomise the whole range of values and ideas that have taken me there in the first place . |
| 30 | The copycat kings of the world will apply the formula which has benefitted them immensely in the everyday world of trade and commerce to rugby . |