Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 2 | She took off everything that could identify her , and stowed it in the bottom layer of her jewellery box . |
| 3 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |
| 4 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 5 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 6 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 7 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 8 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 9 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 10 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 11 | He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin . |
| 12 | Once they took one away from the woodpile and hid it in the stable and the mother searched everywhere , growing more and more distressed . |
| 13 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 14 | He screwed the note up and threw it in the general direction of the wastepaper basket . |
| 15 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |
| 16 | They were tremendous , and outplayed us in the first half . |
| 17 | Bradford TEC responded immediately , helped me understand its systems and guided me in the right direction on form-filling , etc . |
| 18 | So I used a large plastic storage box , and filled it with rooted but loose watercress and placed it in the main pool fed by the return flow from a gravity-fed filter . |
| 19 | She took him to herself and loved him in the mystical , supreme way she believed her mother had loved her father ; she gave him everything — her innocence , her youth , her maidenhead . |
| 20 | Parliament never voted enough money for a naval war with the Netherlands to be decisively successful , so the most substantial result of the anti-Dutch policy was that in 1664 the English seized New Amsterdam , and kept it in the 1668 peace negotiations by handing over in exchange the English colony of Surinam in Guiana . |
| 21 | Dr Groome had hooked Susan up to Yggdrasil and floated her in the third tank . |
| 22 | The court had taken Harvey away from his father and put him in the foster home ‘ until such time as the father can control his drinking and make a safe home for the boy . ’ |
| 23 | The Japanese translator of the English book seems to have recovered the original Japanese text ( written in Classical Japanese ) and quoted it in the Japanese translation . |
| 24 | Surely the lightning stroke of heaven should have fallen upon him and destroyed him in the very deed . ’ |
| 25 | He pulled the local daily paper from under his arm and brandished it in the blue air as if it were a short sword . |
| 26 | This three-track tape was recorded under the auspices of the GDR Studios in Darlington who seem to have rounded up the Divers and pointed them in the right direction . |
| 27 | The Scots , who led 12-3 overnight , needed only one more point to secure overall victory and clinched it in the first match to finish yesterday when Jim Muir beat Mike Marsden in straight sets . |