Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how I got remanded in custody when I was only fifteen . |
| 2 | You failed to fall in love with me — |
| 3 | Potting up petunias in coco fibre — only gloxinia failed to thrive in coir compost |
| 4 | A government that sought to remain in office after losing a vote of confidence in the House of Commons would find its position politically intenable : it would lack the political authority to govern . |
| 5 | I hate to think what Major Maxim got taught in school — or would it have been the Army ? ’ |
| 6 | Two early Christians chanced to meet in Heaven . |
| 7 | He failed to appear in court to face four charges of theft . |
| 8 | Coun Mike J Carr failed to appear in court yesterday on a charge of assaulting Cleveland county councillor John Garvey . |
| 9 | The prosecution sought to adduce in evidence documents which contained statements made by the defendant in the earlier bankruptcy proceedings . |
| 10 | The trainers loved him and some , like Beamish , took it as a mortal insult when he failed to come in person to minister to their valuable charges . |
| 11 | Robert Blatchford 's socialism became codified in Labour 's founding policy statements and has become known as Labourism . |
| 12 | On either side of the black ridge of his brow , the soot-black plaits were looped , Viking-style , under the leather band of the hla , confining his hair in case his head became bared in battle . |
| 13 | There , Emerson made a superb start but got caught in traffic at the first left-hander . |
| 14 | When the bus got caught in traffic they dashed off it and ran through a nearby Russell and Bromley shoe store . |
| 15 | They said their last guy got slung in jail last night . ’ |
| 16 | ISS agreed to provide in return the skill of planning the menus , ordering and preparing the food and , above all , the recruitment and training of the work-force employed in the canteens . |
| 17 | Then the Trunchbull turned to us and said , ‘ From now on , anybody caught eating in class goes straight out the window . ’ |
| 18 | Hank stopped singing in mid-bar . |
| 19 | A BUGATTI motor boat found resting in mud in France is to be flown to its wealthy owner in California next month , 10 years after work began on restoring it at a Thames boatyard . |
| 20 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 21 | When he moved to stand in front of her , barring her path , she looked down , terrified that he would read her fear on her face . |
| 22 | The fundholding practices I visited ranged in size from 12 000 patients ( six partners ) to 17 000 patients ( seven partners ) . |
| 23 | Sailing : Soviet skipper found hanged in forest |
| 24 | Body found hanged in garage |
| 25 | Missing man found trapped in slurry pit |
| 26 | The analogy was an apt one , for the book helped to set in motion the new movement which came to be known as Dialectical Theology , and whose leading lights , apart from Barth himself , were Brunner , Bultmann and Gogarten . |
| 27 | In the seventeenth century , people stopped writing in Latin even when writing for the learned , and various attempts were made at making up universal languages . |
| 28 | It is comparable with the oddness which might visit all our outward appearances if we stopped looking in mirror . |
| 29 | Was n't it time she stopped believing in love since she had no evidence to suggest that such an unselfish , uplifting emotion existed outside the imagination of those who wanted to be duped ? |
| 30 | You stopped believing in Father Christmas , tooth fairies , paternal omniscience and in the sort of over-the-top crazy heart-thudding happy-ever-after love they told you was the ideal . |