Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great Earth Mother Mafulke lived in the Underworld and tended the enormous fires which blazed there . |
| 2 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 3 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 4 | Armstrong fought in the First World War and was a war artist in the Second , sharing with other Surrealists the challenge of creating a pattern out of devastation . |
| 5 | Even sex reformers like Havelock Ellis shared in the assumption that menstruation was debilitating , and by some this was seen as an educational disqualification . |
| 6 | Lord Devlin argued in The Enforcement of Morals that a shared morality is necessary for the continued existence of society , an assumption also central to Parsonian sociology . |
| 7 | In his last years Ewing wintered in the warmth of Pollok House in Glasgow , still working with Erskine on theological projects . |
| 8 | On 17 September Bevin and Acheson met in the State Department ; Acheson stated that the American government had decided it was necessary to proceed with a peace treaty within the near future . |
| 9 | In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs . |
| 10 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 11 | Mills arose in the remote valleys below the moors , and hamlets and villages quickly clustered around them . |
| 12 | That night , Ted and Jim met in the local pub to discuss the situation . |
| 13 | An insight into his state is provided by Michael Wishart , now married to the painter Anne Dunn and living in a studio in Paris , and whom Minton visited in the autumn of 1953 . |
| 14 | It is estimated that about a third of the population of Germany perished in the struggle . |
| 15 | Through the buzz in her head she heard words spoken , formal greeting hanging in the air then she saw Steve stepping inside the house , leaving Fernando framed in the doorway . |
| 16 | Sophie stopped in the act of tidying up the table . |
| 17 | The bodies of nine crewman who were killed when their Hercules crashed in the Scottish Highlands a week ago , will be flown back to RAF Lyneham tomorrow . |
| 18 | Three girls and two boys from Germany helped in the house and the office and another boy worked in the garden . |
| 19 | Classic Warbirds by David Stubbs is an overall look at the warbird scene , with coverage of Reno , detailing the much-modified machines that participate in the air races each year ; Duxford 's Classic Fighter display of 1990 ; warbird training on the T–6 Texan and an excellent section on the B–17s , Mustangs and Messerschmitts used in the move Memphis Belle . |
| 20 | ( 1988 b ) support this interpretation by demonstrating that the VS pre-exposure treatment will produce perfectly good latent inhibition when the CS used in the conditioning phase is itself vinegar followed by sucrose , an arrangement that should ensure that the same representation of vinegar is activated on both occasions . |
| 21 | Satisfied that he was safe , Trent changed in the bathroom . |
| 22 | Sarah stopped in the act of fastening her stays around her vast body . |
| 23 | But he acted as if he remembered the phrase that Dean Acheson used in the spring of 1947 , in those days of little sleep and many martinis when Acheson , George Marshall and Harry Truman had to convince a sceptical Congress to back containment . |
| 24 | Hewlett and Mrs Lowndes moved in the same influential circles . |
| 25 | Gary Stebbing flighted a free kick into the box which was flicked-on by Jason Lillis and an equally unmarked Mark Smalley headed in the equaliser . |
| 26 | Then , as Michael McCarthy reported in The Times on 9 September 1989 , ‘ Europe 's biggest reservoir was closed to people and animals after the discovery of a possibly poisonous bloom of algae in the water . ’ |
| 27 | Luce surfaced in the early hours of the morning to find that she was still enfolded in Michele 's arms . |
| 28 | How ancient this thought is we can see by noticing that it is just the figure Plato used in The Republic to supply his political myth justifying political inequality ( Bk . |
| 29 | Ramsey lived in the rooms of the bishop 's chaplain at the Castle while an architect put in central heating and clothed the walls in lighter paper . |
| 30 | Creed rode in the third car , flanked by two of the Corporation 's top directors , with Jed at the wheel in his new top hat . |