Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 The SEATO Pact effectively became moribund in the wake of the American military withdrawal from Indo-China in the mid 1970s , and was not reinvigorated .
2 Perhaps it is not so surprising , since Tony Bowran learnt his craft from the practitioners of the finest photographic advertising images of the ‘ 70's , and like the painters of previous years that he so admires and draws great inspiration from , they too had apprentices who eventually became masters in their own time .
3 The client eventually recovered £1,000 in supplementary benefit additional requirements , backdated to 1976 .
4 He eventually found solace in religion .
5 Vaughan eventually found Tyndale in Antwerp and had several talks with him in a meadow outside the city walls .
6 Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down .
7 After about thirty years with a genuine French landlord who only sold beer in half-pints , among his other idiosyncrasies , the brewery bowed to public opinion and renamed the place the French Pub .
8 He only became whole in becoming a legionnaire .
9 Because UPH only received £4m in cash they , in theory , did not make any profit and will not have to pay any capital gains tax .
10 It would have been a very unnecessary aggravation of his difficulties to have two different mutually excommunicated popes in lands which he intended to unite once more .
11 I also pay tribute to the professionalism of the emergency services , who naturally faced difficulties in getting to the injured and in getting them out of the tunnel for treatment .
12 But the beginning of an Anglo-American dialogue was stopped short when the Egyptians suddenly pressed Dulles in July for an answer , yes or no , on the matter of financial aid for the dam .
13 Well they only started tarmacadam in nineteen thirty six .
14 Walker , who only switched sports in August , is named in the 29-strong squad that travels to Spain next month as part of the build-up to the Five Nations ' Championship .
15 Braid apparently started work in February 1907 .
16 The ‘ awfully sudden death ’ which had cast ‘ a great gloom ’ over the town of Bishop 's Castle apparently took place in the office of Thomas Griffiths , solicitor and Town Clerk of the borough since 1851 .
17 The morning she saw him she suddenly felt butterflies in her stomach .
18 What is striking about all these cases quoted is that , in every one , the eventual victim had already pursued his or her complaint exhaustively behind the scenes with the employer and only went public in desperation when the outrage was intense and no other recourse seemed available .
19 Share earnings for 1992 are not shown as the company only went public in February 1993 .
20 So Anne stayed at home , and only saw Diana in the evenings .
21 Bob Hoover 's well-known P-51D Mustang Old Yeller had a reserve of $1m and only reached $500,000 in the bidding .
22 Only other aircraft in the sale , was Slingsby Grasshopper glider XK824 , which only reached £650 in the bidding and was unsold .
23 The directive requiring this much took effect in 1980 , but Italy , after some sharp reminders , only altered its laws to conform last December .
24 Before people could generally read , learning was by word of mouth and much took place in the countryside along the paths , particular truths being imparted at certain places , which thereby took on special significance .
25 Here a national outcry was provoked when fifteen white police officers either stood by and watched or personally took part in the systematic assault of a black man whom they had stopped after a car chase .
26 I made sure I was well prepared before the big day and I especially took time in deciding my dress .
27 Things really got going after lunch when those brave enough took part in one of the three fitness classes accompanied by some traditional charleston style music where some of the more experienced feet could be seen ‘ cutting a rug ’ .
28 Thomas took himself a wife , Elizabeth Cooke , one of the three Cooke sisters , who greatly influenced society in their day .
29 In terms of social contact , not only did clients in institutional settings receive only small amounts of contact from staff , the majority of people were never ever observed receiving contact from other clients .
30 As infections increased in women , so did infections in their babies .
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