Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following year he registered for study in philosophy and theology at the University of Leyden and , apart from a brief return to Rostock , remained in The Netherlands until he took up a post at the University of Copenhagen in June 1648 . |
| 2 | I was not short of students who applied for help in the most distressing of circumstances : mature students with spouses and children , who had been denied housing benefit and income support to which they had previously been entitled ; landlords pressing for rent payments and students with no money to pay ; arrears of rent building up ; poll tax arrears building up ; overdrafts being extended ; electricity supplies being cut off , in some cases to parents and children . |
| 3 | Greece applied for membership in 1975 and finally became a Member State on 1 January 1981 . |
| 4 | But beneath his flippancy was a real sympathy for what we were trying to do and an appreciation of the common aims we shared for work in the schools . |
| 5 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 6 | Nigel himself vacillated between belief in and total rejection of death , and busied himself with sorting out his desk and jettisoning surplus papers . |
| 7 | Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil . |
| 8 | More to the point , the passage has a rhythmic regularity which enables it to be written out and scanned as poetry in a quasi-blank-verse metre : He has learned an alphabet of arch and aisle : The language of dim stairs and moth-hung rafters . |
| 9 | Mr Hawkins 's name arose during evidence in the trial , but yesterday friends insisted he had no connection with drugs . |
| 10 | It apparently intends melding 32-bit versions of Windows and DOS ( the reputed DOS 7.0 ) in one package reportedly slated for delivery in 18 to 24 months . |
| 11 | Elderly men clammed up when Barley asked questions in the presence of his assistant , who was felt to be too young ; men rushed howling from the room when he casually asked about circumcision in a sister 's presence . |
| 12 | While a student at Edinburgh , Marion Newbigin had come under the influence of J. Arthur Thompson , whom she later succeeded as lecturer in biology and zoology at the School of Medicine for Women . |
| 13 | He was refused entry to Kuwait and asked for asylum in France.President Giscard d'Estaing asked the Shah his views and the Shah made one of the worst mistakes in his reign by agreeing the Khomeini should go to France , He assumed that the obstreperous priest would be les of a threat to him in distant , Christian France than in neighbouring , radical , Islamic country . |
| 14 | A mother asked for help in rescuing her fourteen-year-old daughter from a coven . |
| 15 | At about 0500 on 18 October 1990 Ballycastle was under severe threat from rising flood water and Fire Brigade Headquarters asked for help in evacuating people stranded in the area . |
| 16 | Of 1200 families who asked for help in 1991 , 56 percent of marriages are breaking down , 55 percent are depressed , 39 percent are drinking too much , and one in five is abusing their partner . |
| 17 | Some time after this Mrs Meehan wrote to me that her husband was innocent , and asked for assistance in having his case reviewed . |
| 18 | Firemen in Hartlepool were only too happy to help out when pupils asked for assistance in putting up bird boxes in trees within the grounds of West Park School . |
| 19 | They asked for information in a general way about various obvious crimes that had taken place in south-east Antrim . |
| 20 | This point arose for decision in South Carolina Insurance Co . |
| 21 | ICI , which had set itself a target of recovering 10 per cent of the CFCs it manufactured for use in cooling systems , has blamed lack of co-operation from local councils , industry and commerce for its failure to recover more than 1 per cent . |
| 22 | As the decade rushed on , as he saw or read about slaughter in Abyssinia , beatings and murder in Hungary , Romania , Albania , racial violence in the Memel , Carpatho-Ukraine , Slovakia , fascist killing in Italy , Germany and Spain , communist in the east , Edward Carrington grew more and more amazed , then horrified , by the country that he supposed his own . |
| 23 | Aveling preferred actresses , but they were more difficult to locate once he left New York , and he rather looked down on what passed as theatre in America , although he admired Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show . |
| 24 | When Sussex gentlemen and townsmen began to question the practices of the church , they found new allies in the Flemings and Frenchmen who fled for asylum in the 1540s from persecution by Catholic monarchs abroad . |
| 25 | She stepped out herself then , hoping to get nearer ; she would like to see what he was doing to her , for she had no clear idea , in spite of the expert descriptions she provided for Cati in their vigils . |
| 26 | A docker was never sure what to expect when he reported for work in the morning . |
| 27 | In 1946 he reported for duty in the English Department with another young lecturer , a modernist called Henry Gifford . |
| 28 | When he reported for duty in Simla , then the headquarters of the meteorological department , he had no knowledge of the subject ; he had to learn it by reading , guided by senior staff . |
| 29 | They stopped for lunch in Bamburgh , where their table in the small restaurant had a view of the castle set on a crag above the village . |
| 30 | In this discussion the brace is the one used for stability in stoppers or as a recovery stroke to avoid capsize , not the one used when breaking in or out . |