Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 2 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 3 | We live on the fourth floor of one building , in what , by Chinese standards , are luxurious conditions : we each have our own bedroom , living room , and bathroom , with drinking water , cigarettes , and thermos flasks of hot water ( for making Chinese tea ) laid on in the living room . |
| 4 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 5 | Ceylon Tamils , many of whose ancestors had lived in Sri Lanka for perhaps one thousand years , lived mostly in the Northern and Eastern Provinces , outside the purview of this book . |
| 6 | She guessed Ben lived mostly in the kitchen , cooking neatly and painstakingly for himself . |
| 7 | So then I went to the bank and asked politely in the name of the Mamur Zapt if I could check Andrus 's account . |
| 8 | Some guy took his er bonuses after two years recently and I think he got somewhere in the region of six thousand pound . |
| 9 | Perhaps for this reason Britain experienced little in the way of a fascist movement in the 1920s ; only a few small and insignificant fascist groups , hostile to the Bolsheviks or the Jews , emerged at that time . |
| 10 | The one whose house it was got taken away and the other one lived on in the house . |
| 11 | The present interior dates from 1852 when it was used by Emperor Ferdinand the Gracious , the last king of Bohemia who abdicated in 1848 in favour of his nephew but who lived on in the castle until his death , in 1875 . |
| 12 | Dicey 's approach , nevertheless , lived on in the minds of lawyers . |
| 13 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 14 | Unlike the Victoria Press , the Caledonian produced little in the way of books . |
| 15 | The scale of private charity expanded remarkably in the mid-nineteenth century and offered considerable protection to the poor against the rigours of the Poor Law . |
| 16 | Round and round , they rode on in a frenzy , Boadicea just smiled and drank wine |
| 17 | The whole night was in motion , its gusts glancing blows from currents active on the fringes of the turbulence centred somewhere in the clouds swirling about overhead . |
| 18 | In the first direct contact between the MPLA government and the rebel UNITA movement since the summit at Gbadolite ( Zaïre ) in June 1989 [ see p. 36726 ] , high ranking delegations from each side met secretly in the Portuguese town of Evora on April 24-25 . |
| 19 | The table was enormous and gleamed redly in the candlelight . |
| 20 | Cardiff attacked gamely in the final quarter and scored a late try through Jeffreys . |
| 21 | He was a man of simple tastes who had a down-to-earth view of life that he passed on in an almost unconscious way with an innate goodness that is found among the local pillars of the community who never stray far from their birthplace . |
| 22 | At All Souls he read widely in the Early Fathers . |
| 23 | On the upper deck outside the half-dozen first-class cabins , green-and-white-striped awnings fluttered gently in the breeze of the ship 's movement , and in their shade Senator Nathaniel Sherman sprawled at ease in a canvas deck chair , his long legs splayed comfortably in front of him . |
| 24 | Above the nearest serving counter a huge banner portrait of the ch'a god , Lu Yu , fluttered gently in the breeze of the overhead fans . |
| 25 | A cheese resembling Camembert was the glory of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire , where records for cheese making go back to as early as 1280 ; and production ceased only in the mid-nineteenth century with the enclosure of the common fen . |
| 26 | These were the fighting heroes of their day , whose exploits lived long in the popular imagination . |
| 27 | John Ashenden , seated alone in the front nearside seat , debated with himself about reaching for the microphone and saying a few words about Somerville College , the Radcliffe Infirmary , the Tower of the Winds , the large , late nineteenth-century redbrick residences , St Edward 's School … |
| 28 | Well they got down in the grass you see . |
| 29 | Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe . |
| 30 | It was n't just the sustained rumbling growls rising to a frenzy as two dogs threatened each other then lunged together in a bitter embrace , each asserting its place in the hierarchy , the priority of its rights over the red bitch . |