Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 2 | At first the Empire knights looked unstoppable as they drove the Goblin wolf riders from the field , but soon both sides became embroiled in hand-to-hand combat where the Knights ' lances were hindered by the close press of warriors . |
| 3 | Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space . |
| 4 | And it also served to draw stings : it ensured the main issue got cloaked in unimportant wranglings . |
| 5 | When Aerial Arts , the original manufacturers , ceased trading in serious debt to Cyclone Hovercraft , the Rotax agents , Cyclone Air Sports took over the rights to the Chaser . |
| 6 | Immanuel Yelikovsky 's idea that the Earth stopped rotating in Old Testament times is attractive , as Martin Gardner points out in his recent Science , Good , Bad and Bogus , because it seems to verify the Old Testament . |
| 7 | Whether or not a family moved depended in large measure on the amount of land that they held and on the number of landholding branches . |
| 8 | ‘ P-please , sir , we tried to go in straight lines . |
| 9 | He tried to slip in unnoticed but it was too late . |
| 10 | MES and I , Ludicrous caught relaxing in sober , sophisticated interview mode |
| 11 | They trained to land in various numbers , although in later years some nine men made up the team in a powered dory . |
| 12 | He could hardly keep his eyes open and tried jumping in cold baths to keep himself awake , but only felt cold as well as tired . |
| 13 | Boys caught dealing in evil tapes |
| 14 | ‘ He promised to stay in regular contact , but I have n't received a single phone call . ’ |
| 15 | The KMT Chinese entered Tonking in massive numbers . |
| 16 | Suppose that he recently sold bonds short ( ie , promised to deliver in future bonds which he did not then own ) when prices were at their peak . |
| 17 | So , many of the migrant mechanics and artisans found housing in surrounding towns and villages . |
| 18 | Francie stopped playing in mid cadence . |
| 19 | as he tried to explain in rhyming verse |
| 20 | Only when she was halfway there did she remember that this , after all , was n't Chipchester , where she had spent the last six months at college — nor even Athens , where at least the drivers and pedestrians expected to engage in constant warfare — and that perhaps she should have checked the traffic before crossing … |
| 21 | During the sharp decline in strike activity which accompanied the industrial downturn of 1899–1901 , worker-intelligentsia contact withered as the revolutionaries became absorbed in internal party bickering . |
| 22 | The 1986 Act was seen by many as a missed opportunity in that it failed to state in positive terms that there was a right to protest peacefully . |
| 23 | A group of burly malai soldiers came jogging in full combat gear from the other direction , the little sergeant who was trotting beside them bestowing on me a suspicious glare . |
| 24 | Bragad was affable enough at the end — said that all things came to pass in good time if they were meant to . |
| 25 | Then Miss Frances Younghusband came to lecture in general sociology . |
| 26 | The method adopted differed in important ways from the earlier biographical approach discussed so far . |
| 27 | There was nothing to cause an echo in the car , already full of engine and wind noise , so it was probably only in their minds that her voice seemed to fade in throbbing waves , as across a vast canyon . |
| 28 | Her friends came to visit in garish canoes , landed and partied and paddled home in the purple sunrise . |
| 29 | Like the dimensions of stone circles , the weights of these objects seemed to peak in definite weight bands , suggesting that they were made to preset weight specifications . |
| 30 | A great deal of nonsense has been spoken and written in recent years concerning his lordship and the prominent role he came to play in great affairs , and some utterly ignorant reports have had it that he was motivated by egotism or else arrogance . |