Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She mostly lived in the country and she was rich . |
| 2 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 3 | In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund , amassed by the girls from a summer fair , Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories . |
| 4 | Many species live , and presumably lived in the past , in inland or upland sites where little sediment accumulates . |
| 5 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 6 | In fact it rarely met in the 1920s . |
| 7 | Below them , on the far side , and the various storage compartments , sliding desk , etc. described in the text ; on the near side is the hatch covering the box extension into which the legs could be stretched when the carriage was used for sleeping . |
| 8 | The issue rarely surfaced in the showery south-east until a string of droughts in the 1980s . |
| 9 | Slowly beat in the milk , 2fl oz of water and seasoning to taste . |
| 10 | He eventually surfaced in the hospital kitchens , where , through his flirtatious manner with a fat lard-like female cook , he had managed to scrounge a free meal . |
| 11 | I he opportunity for doing so arose in the Middle East . |
| 12 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 13 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 14 | Fortunately , much of the fuss has abated , but not before hundreds of the dogs were abandoned or , worse still , brutally mistreated in the name of discipline . |
| 15 | A limp rope , lying unseen across the track suddenly rose in the air and was pulled tight between two trees . |
| 16 | promising life like frantic oracles ; and they only stopped in the morning , promised |
| 17 | and they only stopped in the morning , |
| 18 | Aye , they only came in the su they only came up here in the summer . |
| 19 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 20 | The phenomenon of crumbling historic buildings , greatly accelerated in the twentieth century , is also attributed to the blight of acid rain . |
| 21 | When at last he came to see her , he obviously believed in the story of the German and she was too proud to tell him the truth . |
| 22 | They only differed in the positioning of the Drosophila simulans and Ephestia cautella microorganisms within the PM/CIM group . |
| 23 | For although I am sure he never had the chance to encounter a tiger beneath the dining table , when I think over all that I know or have heard concerning him , I can think of at least several instances of his displaying in abundance that very quality he so admired in the butler of his story . |
| 24 | That child labour not only existed in the pre-factory economy but was strongly approved of does not of itself make blinkered sentimentalists of those who reacted so strongly to the " dark , satanic mills " . |
| 25 | The snobbish distinction between art and craft only began in the eighteenth century amongst collectors who felt it necessary to describe creativity according to their social or monetary values . |
| 26 | Labbe ( 1926 ) thought that the shells of embryos were usually imbricated , but that the character only persisted in the shells of dog-whelks living in sheltered sites . |
| 27 | The animal suddenly leapt in the air in a terrifying spasm of pain before collapsing , choking on its own blood . |
| 28 | On the far side of the square , with distinctive sgraffiato decoration , much romanticized in the 19C , when the walls of the building were crenellated , is the Museum of Arms and Armour ( 2/135 ) . |
| 29 | Mind yer , we only went in the cheapest seats . |
| 30 | No I did n't , I only went in the hall for that paper . |