Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 2 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 3 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 4 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 5 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 6 | They moved to Dallas , and Graham has so immersed himself in the American way of life that I am surprised he has not sought American citizenship . |
| 7 | Johannsen also claimed one in the latter area at 1150 . |
| 8 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 9 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 10 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 11 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 12 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 13 | " And directly after this , at the beginning of Chapter 17 , there is another abrupt change of tone : [ 7 ] Captain Cuttle , in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming , with which ( as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity ) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature , had gone to Mr Dombey 's house on the eventful Sunday , winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity , and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson ( I ) . |
| 14 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 15 | At a World Cup : ‘ The manager must have said something in the Dutch dressing gown at half-time . ’ |
| 16 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 17 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 18 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 19 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 20 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |
| 21 | The joyrider that we interviewed , he was fairly upset and he wished that he 'd never done it in the first place . |
| 22 | It should be remembered that recovery is a process of improving perception and is not merely an intellectual process : if sufferers could fully see and understand what they were doing to themselves , they would not have done it in the first place . |
| 23 | they , they should of done , but they did n't , the point is they should n't of left it the last minute , they should of done it in the first place |
| 24 | Have you done it in the last sort of few weeks ? |
| 25 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |
| 26 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 27 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 28 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 29 | No I 'll let you do it , I , I 've pointed you in the right direction |
| 30 | Five days after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 Turkey had unequivocally placed itself in the anti-Iraq camp with a series of economic sanctions ( including the blocking of the pipelines which were Iraq 's principal route for the export of oil ) which were to prove crucial , as Turkey was one of Iraq 's major trading partners [ see p. 37641 ] . |