Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [vb pp] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though all but one of the travellers had decamped for Christmas , he did n't care to be seen improperly dressed in the hall . |
| 2 | This classification has become widely accepted in the discipline , and virtually all discussions of the subject deal with this trio . |
| 3 | More recently , artists such as Boldini , De Nittis , Segantini , Zandomeneghi and the Macchiaioli have become better known in the States , but Palagi , Favretto , Hayez and Toma are virtually unrecognised , as are many others . |
| 4 | In 1980 a majority of the member countries of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) recognized the Polisario as the rightful government of Western Sahara , which took its seat as the SADR at the 1989 OAU summit , whereupon Morocco , which had become increasingly isolated in the Maghreb region over the issue , resigned from the OAU in protest . |
| 5 | The departures from London on Thursdays and Sundays between the end of February and mid-November ( the return leg departs Venice on Wednesdays and Saturdays ) have become well established in the BR timetable . |
| 6 | In the 22 years since its introduction , endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography ( ERCP ) has become firmly established in the management of biliary and pancreatic disease . |
| 7 | The Cambridge Board was fully committed to its existing developments in the other counties , considered earlier in this chapter , and the LEA were averse to contributing to the salary of the tutor until the scheme had become firmly established in the county — a Catch 22 situation — and the scheme petered out in 1934 . |
| 8 | The boot and shoe trade , which had become firmly established in the county town of Northampton during the Civil War , spread to Wellingborough before 1760 and soon afterwards to Earls Barton , Higham Ferrers , Irthlingborough , Raunds , Rushden and Wollaston . |
| 9 | Recently he has become uncontrollably excited in the court , shouting , screaming and ready to hit anyone who tries to restrain him . |
| 10 | Believe it or not , two young children were found apparently lost in the store that I work in . |
| 11 | ‘ Tell me , Nigel , ’ he began , ‘ a young woman and her male companion are found barbarously murdered in the glade of an Oxfordshire forest . |
| 12 | By default , numeric quantities are printed right justified in the print zone and strings are printed just as they are ( with no leading spaces ) . |
| 13 | Telling the men to see that the body was left fully clothed in the mortuary until he could get there , he let them go . |
| 14 | Even in Scotland , the huge majorities in favour of devolution once recorded steadily diminished in the opinion polls in 1978 as the Scottish economy appeared to recover and Labour regained much of the ground lost to the Nationalists . |
| 15 | Schofield 's sports kit was discovered half burnt in the school incinerator . |