Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government did indeed make new judicial arrangements for the peasantry , but it made them in 1861 . |
| 2 | ‘ You nearly expected me in vain , ’ the Friar said . |
| 3 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 4 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 5 | Avoiding Richard , who got to his feet as soon as he saw something to be carried , she kicked open the top of the Arctic and flung them in golden handfuls onto the glowing bed of fuel . |
| 6 | They got me in 1979 when Eamonn Andrews hosted the show . |
| 7 | The last time some of these plates were printed was in 1906 , by Alvin Beaumont , whose family sold them in 1938 . |
| 8 | Thus it might be that the old English case of Woodhouse v Brotherhood 1972 ] ICR 186 would be decided the same way under the Directive , because the facts , as found in that case , were that the transferee employer used the factory and the machines to produce different products from those made by the transferor and sold them in different markets . |
| 9 | Pollensa and Alcudia were in the north of the island and Fernando owned nothing in that region . |
| 10 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 11 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 12 | Andy Roxburgh , who knows he has to face the Brazilians in next summer 's World Cup , and Bobby Robson , who knows he might , were reminded of Brazilian flair but were left to take Brazilian finishing on trust until Careca , the Napoli striker , headed them in front early in the second half . |
| 13 | In the mid 1970s , for example , the police fell out with a number of crime reporters and charged them in separate proceedings with a variety of criminal offences . |
| 14 | She received random bits of memory , tried them in different patterns , hoping to make sense . |
| 15 | It cost him his papers , the Czechs bounced them in 1981 while Dr. Tomlin was visiting fellow academics in Oxford . |
| 16 | Their most recent tour , in June of last year , involved them in joint performances of music by Haydn , Elgar , Dvorak and Beethoven in Munich . |
| 17 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
| 18 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 19 | West Indies had lost only one home Test in the previous decade , and had not lost in Kingston since Australia beat them in 1954–5 . |
| 20 | But we have consciously searched for the poor in spirit , and found them in many different situations . |
| 21 | So their best event found them in sixth position . |
| 22 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
| 23 | The richest sources exploited today are the mines of Colombia , where the Spanish conquerors encountered them in 1537 . |
| 24 | When Captain Cook encountered them in 1778 the Eskimos of Bering Strait were using iron knives and wearing glass beads . |
| 25 | A family of brothers , fathers and uncles on the front table took an instant dislike to me and , slamming their pints on the table , sat back with arms crossed and regarded me in stony-faced silence . |
| 26 | But the duchy of Gascony , lying between the Garonne and the Pyrenees , remained inviolable , and the lands ‘ in Wasconia ultra Guaro-nam ’ , as Richard I described them in 1191 , were in fact allodial territories , held without superior lord . |
| 27 | The ‘ drifting youth of the welfare state ’ , as Arthur Bryant described them in 1954 , ‘ become the inevitable prey of the gang-leader or , at best , grow up to lead , despite all the material opportunities of our age , inert , stunted and purposeless lives ’ . |
| 28 | They helped me in many ways but there was something sick in my mind . |
| 29 | No doubt my verbal articulacy , being greater than that of my unfortunate companion , helped me in this form of self-defence , as it did in my ability to lie . |
| 30 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |