Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun prp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 2 | Vaughan eventually found Tyndale in Antwerp and had several talks with him in a meadow outside the city walls . |
| 3 | Hateley , who virtually single-handedly beat Leeds in the last round , said : ‘ We could have been 4–0 down . |
| 4 | As a long time drinker of real ale , who has only joined CAMRA in the last year , I found this belly-aching very annoying . |
| 5 | The idolisation of Miss Hatherby that had so annoyed Nora in the early days of the piano lessons had gone . |
| 6 | Only to support Bruce in what he said Mr Chairman , that it is absolutely essential that we do keep some money after to take advantage of five B. |
| 7 | ‘ Excuse me , I 'd better bring Harrison in , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The scene does not necessarily present Brutus in an unfavourable light . |
| 9 | Churchill , a strong Zionist supporter , had fiercely condemned MacDonald in the Commons in 1938 and continued his verbal assault afterwards in the Division Lobby of the House of Commons . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Rightly called Yoredale in the Middle Ages after the river Ure which flows through it , the dale later came to take its name from the little market town of Wensley , further down the dale . |
| 12 | But a jackpot of £2,350,000 was not enough to keep Kirkley in a job . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd better call Larry in and get away from here , quick , ’ she heard Butch say . |
| 14 | He obviously rates Fairclough in the defensive mid-field role . |
| 15 | So Anne stayed at home , and only saw Diana in the evenings . |
| 16 | Subsequently , selected documents were released from the presidential archives , apparently implicating Gorbachev in taking part in or in concealing information about various episodes of Soviet history , including the shooting down of Korean Airlines flight KAL-007 in 1983 [ see pp. 32513-7 ] , the order for the invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979 , and direct orders from Stalin for the murder of Polish officers in 1940 ( the Katyn massacre — for April 1990 Soviet admission of responsibility see pp. 37383-84 ) . |
| 17 | Bangor 's Garth McGimpsey was in sparkling form , but it still was n't good enough to overcome Cork in the final , going down 3–2 . |
| 18 | As subject , acting for his own interests , the later confusion of events — with Cordelia returned from France with soldiers to seek her father and secret letters passing to and fro — suddenly puts Gloucester in a dilemma . |
| 19 | When the constable first entered the Chequers , albeit in plain clothes , Slatter , the local man , had obviously left James in no doubt who they were . |
| 20 | Lloyd George received a hero 's welcome wherever he went , but then so did Churchill in 1945 , and it is impossible to tell now whether Lloyd George would have fared so well if he had had Liberals rather than Unionists at his back . |
| 21 | The same phrase had been translated and mordantly placed by Dante in Canto XXX of the Purgatorio ; and so , when Hardy in these poems confronts the shade of his recently deceased and estranged wife Emma , not only does Aeneas in Aeneid 6 confront the reproachfully haughty ghost of Dido , but Dante 's pilgrim confronts for the first time the shade or apparition of his lost Beatrice . |
| 22 | ’ Schisgal obviously had Dustin in mind when he wrote this . |
| 23 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 24 | But then she remembered how they would look at each other , the tenderness in Con 's face as he gently held Una in his arms mirrored by the shining happiness in Una . |
| 25 | Denis patiently instructed Joey in what to do and he and Michael kept him from talking too loudly . |
| 26 | You may only activate DCs in this state . |
| 27 | You obviously have Therese in mind for Adele in the new production of Luxembourg — so much more suitable for her , an older woman — I would have thought you could let poor little Ingrid have her moment of triumph in Gypsy Baron . ’ |
| 28 | Now it was shifting eastward to include China in the equation . |
| 29 | Ojomoh , by now the South West England Under-21 decathlon champion , developed into a formidable rugby forward and had just joined Bath in 1989 when a letter from the Home Office threatened to wreck his life . |
| 30 | The French have just joined Russia in declaring that they will temporarily halt testing ; Boris Yeltsin could be under pressure to rescind Russia 's test ban in September if there has been no sign of flexibility from Britain and the US . |