Example sentences of "[verb] [vb past] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Blatchford 's socialism became codified in Labour 's founding policy statements and has become known as Labourism . |
| 2 | On either side of the black ridge of his brow , the soot-black plaits were looped , Viking-style , under the leather band of the hla , confining his hair in case his head became bared in battle . |
| 3 | The fundholding practices I visited ranged in size from 12 000 patients ( six partners ) to 17 000 patients ( seven partners ) . |
| 4 | Between 1971 and 1974 , Britain apparently became more equal because share prices fell while the homes people occupied boomed in price . |
| 5 | But er as I say there were people really worse off than we were but we were n't all that well off and my mother as I say took in washing and did black leading and all that sort of thing for very small remuneration . |
| 6 | It did however reflect a sense of Britain 's central role in a world-wide economy and permitted individuals to believe they could contribute to a good cause without relying upon government or becoming enmeshed in politics . |
| 7 | A businessman who helped organise the weekend acid house party where violent scenes left 16 policemen injured appeared in court charged with riot . |
| 8 | As SAVE arrived in court , with Robert Carnwath as QC and Gouldens as solicitors , there was a new , unexpected twist in the saga . |
| 9 | In case it had become corrupted in transmission , it was repeated . |
| 10 | Many trade union leaderships had become enmeshed in participation in incomes policies and arrangements for long-term contracts . |
| 11 | Yeah so please your worships it was the twenty first of June in the morning when the police officer was on duty on the Aces Accrington at Worley he had occasion to stop the vehicle which was being driven by Mr and he noticed that the excise licence which was being displayed had in fact , expired at the end of March . |
| 12 | He had occasion to stop the vehicle which was being driven by Mr and he noted that the excise licence which was being displayed had in fact expired at the end of March . |
| 13 | So I went down there and er well I suppose fell in love with the job right away . |
| 14 | Gradually , all was revealed that is , people , including the authorities and the KGB , realized that the Odd-Bod Greek who had spent all those years collecting the ‘ rubbish ’ that no-one needed had in fact made a collection that was now worth a great deal of money , and it reached a point when it became awkward living in Moscow with the collection . |
| 15 | The lines on his forehead and round the top of his nose looked chiselled in mahogany , as if his face had not been aged but tempered through the centuries . |
| 16 | As the trucks made to leave the following day for the final part of the journey to Arcady , Cabochon asked Ari if he could speak with her , and then told her about what he feared waited in Arcady for him . |
| 17 | Luscious fruits and vegetables , sausages and cheeses of every description , breads that smelled as wonderful as they looked , lay heaped in profusion on market stalls shaded by cream-coloured umbrellas . |
| 18 | One article which had been revised and resubmitted appeared in proof partly returned to its original form and partly left in the resubmitted form . |
| 19 | I remember sitting mesmerized in front of my Dad 's small black-and-white television as Ali 's voice roared from the huge world outside and through the TV 's rattling three-inch speaker . |
| 20 | It was delivered swaddled in raffia , conical and bursting with dark needles . |
| 21 | In the case of purely generic goods , if the particular goods which the seller had in mind to supply had in fact perished at the time of the contract this would not make it impossible for him to perform the contract . |
| 22 | The inflatable boat we had heard had in fact transported the drugs ashore and ferried out food and fuel . |
| 23 | Dr Martin Brewer of the Institute of Geological Sciences in Britain reported that the material he had been sent did in fact cont–in asbestos . |
| 24 | After location , chromatograms were kept refrigerated in polythene envelopes , and exposure was minimised during scanning . |
| 25 | New food safety laws say sandwiches must be kept refrigerated in delivery vans and shops , unless sold within four hours of being made . |
| 26 | Oh we were fine last night , we just sat plonked in front of Inspector Morse all night , you know , every time the er |
| 27 | She had eaten too many cookies at the tea and was feeling nauseated in consequence , but told herself wrathfully that it was Boyd 's disgusting ways that had done it . |