Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 2 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 3 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 4 | More to the point , at that age , Auntie tells me , I saw no distinction between the two Fathers , both of whom lived in the sky . |
| 5 | In a very real sense , of course , the biographies of the Muftis in the following chapters illustrate the development of the hierarchy , but it seems not without point to concentrate attention on this particular aspect by placing side by side the biographies of two scholars , one of whom lived in the period before the hierarchy had become developed to any very great degree — before , perhaps , it is even possible to speak of a hierarchy-he other in a period when the development was fairly well advanced , though not complete . |
| 6 | What had originated as a spontaneous civilian outburst now began to be depicted in the international media as a revolt by Iraq 's majority Shia community , most of whom lived in the southern part of the country . |
| 7 | The report showed that there were between 27,000,000 and 35,000,000 blind people in the world , over 90 per cent of whom lived in the developing world , mostly in rural areas . |
| 8 | There were three of them seated in the wardroom , Talbot , Van Gelder and Grierson . |
| 9 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 10 | Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths . |
| 11 | There will eventually be 10 zones in all , each of them designated in an area of particularly high unemployment . |
| 12 | Not everyone shared in the boom ; in particular the farmers did not . |
| 13 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 14 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
| 15 | Galleys took some small part in the indecisive battle of Cape Matapan between the Turkish and Venetian fleets in 1717 ; but apart from the large fleets of them maintained in the Baltic by Russia and Sweden they had become obsolete long before the end of this period . |
| 16 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 17 | Nothing moved in the entire length of Westmuir Street . |
| 18 | It is possible for us to image a society of saints in which no one committed what we see as crimes , in which everyone behaved in an impeccable manner . |
| 19 | Judging by his expression , Clive had not been best pleased to find me ensconced in the Parsons ' sitting room that night . |
| 20 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 21 | I asked in a you-don't-have-to-tell-me-anything-about-Carol voice , with an I'm-on-your-side sort of sigh . |
| 22 | I asked in the beginning . |
| 23 | Because I asked in the other classes , three or four American students , and I asked them the same question . |
| 24 | I read in the papers last week benzene , the benzene is used in unleaded petrol . |
| 25 | One of my constituents that I read in the newspaper about the erm , the green way in which the party should be moving , and said that erm , he would like me to express my disquiet to and I thought this , perhaps this would be quite a useful place to his disquiet , but Council tax money is being spend on this sort of erm , work when there are far more urgent erm , services needed in the County , and he would much rather have the highways , er , money from , which is now going into the Environment to go into highways , erm , so as er , Chairman council , I 'm passing his comments on to you , through this committee . |
| 26 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 27 | I read in the Planning Press that the Newbury District Council managed to browbeat the the Department of Environment into accepting the phrase in their in a local plan , so perhaps presumptions are er the word presumption may or may not be acceptable , but then to extend it into saying well you ca n't even say , not normally be acceptable , and , not normally be er agreeable , for any sort of policy er means that strategic policies or general policy approaches are simply ruled out ri right across the board . |
| 28 | Er there and er it 's therefore er the best use we can make of it , not specifically for any particular school in any particular circumstances as I read in the , that the , that the Tories proposals have been in , on , on , on the issue . |
| 29 | That was the one thing that was that I read in the books that it was kind of tradition for the men to wear black . |
| 30 | It said in the E , the Echo I read in the Echo it 's er , Friday 's Echo that the first band comes on at four |