Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] in [num] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 An old nurse hanged herself in one of the barns .
2 When , three years ago , news of Implexion 's investiture into the Chamber of Ten had come to the Redoubt , Dauntless had locked himself in one of the private chapels for two days .
3 The fighting was said to have displaced one in 10 of the republic 's 5,000,000 population .
4 He had found her in one of the outlying villages .
5 Dr Brunt , the Queen 's doctor in Aberdeen , treated her in 1986 after the fishbone scare .
6 His hair , which he had cut himself in one of the gales of thrift that blew up in him every few weeks , kept getting into his eyes and caused him to see a charming rainbow when he stood under a street lamp to look up at Sam 's room — something he had done too often .
7 An administrative career , and after 1848 his Bonapartist background , had led him in 1852 to the important prefectorate of Bordeaux , where he had hosted the famous reception in November of that year at which Louis-Napoleon in the course of his official speech had virtually inaugurated the Empire .
8 W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage .
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