Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of the twentieth century Freud wrote about sexuality in children , which was , at that time , an original contribution to the understanding of human beings and the problems many of them developed in later adult life . |
| 2 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 3 | By the next day , there were three angels keeping vigil by her bed , one of them clad in black applying cold cloths to her brow . |
| 4 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 5 | Both of them smashed in one jump |
| 6 | What have I said in those letters ? |
| 7 | ‘ Have I indicated in any way that I 'm itching to go home ? ’ |
| 8 | We could then consider ourselves qualified in theoretic work , and a letter from our superiors in our chosen field would mean the fall Diploma . |
| 9 | both of whom phoned in this afternoon . |
| 10 | As I have already remarked , the king himself intervened in 1620 to try to eliminate female transvestism . |
| 11 | Although he had not formally announced his candidature Olympio , son of President Sylvanus Olympio who was himself assassinated in 1963 , had been expected to be a very popular presidential candidate . |
| 12 | Wordsworth himself recalled in old age that he had first met Coleridge , together with Southey , and Edith and Sara Fricker , at ‘ a lodging in Bristol ’ . |
| 13 | Goldemberg himself resigned in early August and his portfolio was taken over by Eraldo Tinoco [ ministerial and other resignations taking place in the context of the widening corruption scandal will be covered in detail in the September News Digest ] . |
| 14 | Two days later , as he was being moved to a new jail , he was himself shot in full view of millions of TV viewers by a small-time gambler , Jack ruby . |
| 15 | J. was himself injured in several other incidents involving bombs , once being temporarily blinded when a marker bomb exploded almost in his face . |
| 16 | The egoist might concede that , since in choosing means to his own ends he has to try to predict others ' behaviour , he does find it a practical necessity at times to imagine from their viewpoints at the cost of transiently feeling himself moved in altruistic directions . |
| 17 | This is clear from words which Mercadier himself dictated in 1196 : " I fought for him strenuously and loyally . |
| 18 | After the group does disband , Gedge might find himself employed in some other aspect of the music business . |
| 19 | Here Tupac Amaru had been beheaded and his spiritual successor , the self-styled José Gabriel Tupac Amaru the Second , renegade leader of an attempt to restore the pride of the Incas , was himself executed in 1781 . |
| 20 | Since gaining independence within the Commonwealth ( as an " independent sovereign state " from 1963 and as a republic from 1967 ) , Uganda has been ruled by regimes dominated first by Milton Obote ( 1962-71 ) and then by Idi Amin ( 1971-79 ) ; Obote was re-elected as President in 1980 in the aftermath of the Tanzanian backed overthrow of Amin the previous year , but was himself overthrown in 1985 . |
| 21 | Even when Bevin as British foreign secretary speedily found himself entangled in tough disputes with the USSR , this did not lead him to follow Churchill 's line that Britain had of necessity to work as closely as possible with the United States . |
| 22 | There was an element of incongruity with his own behaviour , of course : de Gaulle had himself deserted in 1940 , and had been tried and sentenced by Vichy in absentia . |
| 23 | Troeltsch himself worked in three main fields . |
| 24 | He made his worst start for years , found himself jammed in fourth place and then thought his race for the title might be over when a warning light flickered in the cockpit of the 200mph Renault-Williams . |
| 25 | Some millionaire or other , it is sometimes claimed , has had himself cloned in some secret clinic in Switzerland ( or South America ) by taking the nuclei from some of his own cells . |
| 26 | Middlesbrough 's Mayor Eddie Bolland was on board the 3,200ton ship , keeping alive the links which begun in 1975 until the last possible minute . |
| 27 | Had Caspar got himself shut in one of the sheds ? |
| 28 | EAST 17 star Brian Harvey was almost forced to scrap £50,000 worth of TV appearances after finding himself covered in mysterious red blotches . |
| 29 | As the war ended he got himself married in Long Ditton , Surrey , to a girl named Madeline Fowler , daughter of George Fowler , a traffic manager . |
| 30 | ‘ Taylor told me he would have me watched in future games . |