Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHEILA lived in a cottage on the rocky shelf of a mountain . |
| 2 | Flora Macdonald lived in a small farm estate , off this road . |
| 3 | At an earlier hearing , defence solicitor Colin Nott failed in a bid to have the ban lifted , but successfully appealed at the High Court the next day to have the bail condition lifted so his client could see the baby under supervision . |
| 4 | The Foleys lived in a large Victorian house with a garden in Donnybrook , a couple of miles from the centre of Dublin . |
| 5 | Newman asked in a low voice . |
| 6 | Unwilling to make an unheralded entrance , Nicandra quivered in a distance of expectancy . |
| 7 | Melanie asked in a congested , small voice . |
| 8 | Irena lived in a late-Seventies block of flats on the edge of town , half a mile from the Russian barracks , part of an ugly outer-urban sprawl . |
| 9 | A MUCH larger entry of store pigs at Markethill sold in a strong trade particularly for heavy stores and middleweight stores which were in outstanding demand . |
| 10 | On the 14th of February 1826 Knott and Taylor partnered in a 21 year lease ( from the Rt . |
| 11 | Stuart Pascoe lived in a spacious house not far from Canterbury Cathedral with a garden that swung down to a river . |
| 12 | My cousin Ibrahim lived in a two-storey house a few hundred metres away , just beyond the Tel Aviv–Jaffa port railway line . |
| 13 | Katherine Lundy operated in a world where deceit was accepted — indeed , expected , and she survived in this world because she herself had learned her lessons in one of the toughest schools of all — in the fire and revolution of Dublin before the " 16 Rising . |
| 14 | The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive . |
| 15 | The club were accused of making illegal payments to players and more dramatically , Macari was fined £1,000 for his part in a betting scandal after a bet of £6,500 had been placed on Swindon to lose in a cup match against Newcastle . |
| 16 | Frau Nordern asked in a tone of voice which strongly suggested that if he was then he could go and do it somewhere else . |
| 17 | He trusted the captains of his ships , he trusted his trading partners in the East , in the Indian Ocean , over the Atlantic , around the African coast ; his clerks , his associates in Liverpool , his bank , his builders , his carpenters , those who supplied him with his furniture and his clothes — Mr Crump moved in a world of total trust . |
| 18 | Alison presided in a relaxed way , finding things for people to do , drawing them out , drawing them in . |
| 19 | Jessica drew in a great breath of cool air . |
| 20 | Gary lives in a block of flats . |
| 21 | The Labour party in its two minority governments in 1924 and 1929 — 31 , despite some minor foreign policy successes , failed to pass any much-needed radical social legislation and Ramsay Macdonald behaved in a constitutionally impeccable manner . |
| 22 | Sheila lives in a council maisonette and has not been involved with social services recently , although she was in care for two years from the age of 14 . |
| 23 | The only thing Stewart has in a nice hair-style … so nice he wo n't head the ball . |
| 24 | In 51 minutes Ian Ferguson crashed in a fierce 20 yarder which flew wide and Rangers missed a great chance to go ahead when Murdoch saved a Hateley penalty kick , after the keeper had been penalised for bringing down the big attacker . |
| 25 | Hun Sen proposed in a speech delivered on Oct. 17 that the party support Sihanouk 's candidacy for the presidency of Cambodia in the future elections . |
| 26 | What is the point of having Van Goch hanging in a public building if people with disabilities are not provided with proper access facilities . |
| 27 | The Spartak goal was threatened after just 80 seconds as Steve McManaman whipped in a cross and Don Hutchison flashed an instinctive half-volley over the Moscow crossbar . |
| 28 | The use of names rather than arguments as ammunition has become noticeable in such exercises , on both sides of the Atlantic , as Chris Baldick remarks in a review of Frederick Crews 's Skeptical Engagements : |
| 29 | Four of these infants are buried in Mauchline churchyard , where Burns and Jean lived in a house in Castle Street , now a museum . |
| 30 | Nellie asked in a worried tone of voice . |