Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You nearly expected me in vain , ’ the Friar said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She received random bits of memory , tried them in different patterns , hoping to make sense . |
| 9 | Their most recent tour , in June of last year , involved them in joint performances of music by Haydn , Elgar , Dvorak and Beethoven in Munich . |
| 10 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 14 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 15 | Violette had set up as a paper restorer , an arcane occupation which took precise scientific skill but involved her in outlandish escapades with police and businessmen or lawyers . |
| 16 | Anything which involved her in unnecessary enmeshment with Vitor d'Arcos would be sturdily fended off . |
| 17 | ‘ I found him in great spirits . |
| 18 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 19 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 20 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 21 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 22 | She would make Hari Morgan interested in her scheme for an emporium however much it cost her in lost pride for in . |
| 23 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 24 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 25 | This group were aware of the injury and described it in neutral terms of sensation . |
| 26 | Laughing he tossed the hot nut , and Emilia , squealing , caught it in gloved hands . |
| 27 | One particularly violent swerve took it right off the counter and Finn caught it in mid air , upside down , wheels spinning . |
| 28 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 29 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 30 | Here is the modest parish church of St Mary : the date of its founding is obscure , but a panel over the porch records that the building was restored by Lady Anne Clifford in 1663 after she found it in ruinous condition . |