Example sentences of "gradually [vb past] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marketing men gradually got in charge and now their corporate thinking and fear can kill any project . |
| 2 | The current was strongest along the far bank and gradually lessened in strength until it reached a couple of yards from our bank , where it was almost slack . |
| 3 | Columbine too started life as a servant of the gods and gradually rose in rank from waiting on the aristocracy to conspiring with Harlequin in such ballets as The Good- Humoured Ladies , where the two of them appear as serving maid and waiter . |
| 4 | Those capitalists , who were predominantly of Chinese and Indian extraction , gradually grew in size and economic importance , and in doing so moved increasingly away from their traditional roles in Western dominated export and import sectors , and towards manufacturing , banking and commercial expansion in their own right . |
| 5 | I realised the truth when I became close to a friend of a friend and gradually fell in love with her . |
| 6 | A strange glow was emitted by the water on the stage , which gradually increased in brilliance until it revealed a vibrancer performing the opening sequence of a presentation . |