Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In 1967 the Earl of Antrim and a number of other surviving Irish peers sought to set in motion the machinery for a fresh election of 28 of their number , and petitioned the House to this end . |
| 32 | He jettisoned his parachute but died after his reserve chute failed to open in time . |
| 33 | The Boundary Commission should be set to work immediately and told to report in time for new constituencies to be in place for the next election — to bring fair representation across the United Kingdom , ensuring that a vote in Scotland is no longer worth more than one in England , or a vote in one constituency worth more than one in another . |
| 34 | Of these a few came to see in friendship the whole meaning of life : Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and E.M . |
| 35 | Friends no longer came to gather in prayer , but to further the revolution . |
| 36 | And her heart seemed to quicken in response . |
| 37 | Fand left a silence round the words , and all the depths of the sea seemed to gather in stillness . |
| 38 | The waves seemed to increase in size as we passed the first section of headland , continuing to smash with awesome power to our right , too close to our right ! |
| 39 | Her spine was so tense , her shoulders so rigid , that she ached all over and that empty and gnawing pain in her stomach seemed to increase in severity as dusk approached and the hour when son and husband would return grew closer . |
| 40 | When he had shut the door of her bedroom behind them both , he came to stand in front of her and stroked her face with one finger , tracing her eyebrows , the semi-circular curve of the bones under her eyes , the diagonal lines of her cheekbones , and her lips . |
| 41 | Lucenzo finished his unnervingly fast count-down and came to stand in front of her , commandeering the laces again despite her protests . |
| 42 | Purely out of tact , Maxim braced his brain cells for a kamikaze mission and opted to drink in parallel . |
| 43 | When the horse reared as Ana 's had done it seemed to grow in stature , holding the stance endlessly and then leaping into that strange jump , its forelegs not touching the ground . |
| 44 | From a nervous start , she seemed to grow in confidence towards the end . |
| 45 | Her loins seemed to tear in protest , and she groaned aloud . |
| 46 | During the next weeks Merrill seemed to exist in limbo . |
| 47 | Because it 's designed that way , with tiles coloured and crafted to live in harmony with both history and local environments . |
| 48 | For a moment Merrill 's enchantment seemed to hang in suspension , then she sat up quickly , pushing back her hair . |
| 49 | His real interests , however , increasingly came to lie in science and eventually his father paid for him to attend University College London , where he studied chemistry . |
| 50 | Even the opposition seemed to slow in sympathy , but he still kept the ball and did quite well each time . |
| 51 | For the people condemned to live in shanty towns , drugs are a means of survival , a way of facing another day . |
| 52 | Even the dogs seemed to hush in expectation . |
| 53 | You and Nigel were the first friends Rita and I made , nine years ago , when we came to live in North Wales . |
| 54 | Two or three out of every ten who came to live in south London were north Londoners who had merely crossed the river , but of course they themselves may have been second generation immigrants to the capital . |
| 55 | She seemed to lie in bed for a long time before falling asleep . |
| 56 | Time seemed to lie in suspension . |
| 57 | I did n't want to disturb the family at a moment like this so I came to check in person . |
| 58 | The woman seemed to change in front of Kim 's eyes , seemed almost to grow in size . |
| 59 | Le Bon seemed to have in mind here a church congregation , as in the remarks about people being lifted up ethically in a crowd . |
| 60 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |