Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years later she applied to nurse in the Boer War and died from typhoid fever at Simonstown , aged 37 . |
| 2 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 3 | As a food and store safety officer , I felt dismayed and frustrated to see in the Journal , members of staff wearing inappropriate jewellery and , in high risk areas , all hair not kept within hats . |
| 4 | He had raised his glass civilly enough in recognition of Vernon 's presence whenever their eyes had met across the floral displays , and he had always been very effusive if they chanced to meet in the queue for the cloakroom or on the pavement outside the State Restaurant , but he had held his distance in mixed company , had never introduced him , for instance , to Mrs Harcourt . |
| 5 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 6 | Alec Monk , formerly international advertising controller at Nestlé , refused to approve any commercial in which the brand name failed to appear in the first seven or eight seconds , and in which it was not repeated several times . |
| 7 | Eventually Hayling agreed to appear in the prospectus confirmed as chief executive until the launch . |
| 8 | The curtains failed to meet in the middle , revealing a section of the room beyond : a high , narrow bed flanked by a massive wardrobe in dark , stained oak ; a large crucifix with an unusually lifelike Christ hanging on the wall . |
| 9 | The organiser of a country show which failed to pull in the crowds says he 'll be holding a full enquiry into what went wrong . |
| 10 | Landau and Boorsch agreed to differ in the catalogue to the extent that the former proposed adding four further prints to the canon of seven generally accepted autograph works while Ms Boorsch felt strongly that none of them was by his hand . |
| 11 | The committee decided not to summon him , according to Chaplin , when they heard he planned to appear in the costume , boots and battered bowler of the Chaplin tramp . |
| 12 | But there was to be no repeat performance as the 2-5 favourite failed to sparkle in the two and a quarter mile Haldon Gold Cup . |
| 13 | Well that 's what Breeze am keep telling me when I got to work in the morning it 's about the time of recession people should advertise more not less that maybe but the hard financial situation of the theatre finds itself in is to find that sort of money is very difficult at the moment . |
| 14 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 15 | When Monday came , her misery gave her a new edge of ruthless efficiency , so that she hardly hesitated in rejecting some of the more out-of-condition stock that the retiring owner tried to include in the valuation . |
| 16 | Furthermore , since " the common unaided senses of man are not equal to the realisation of the world " , education should provide the means by which the " dull superficial sight of the multitude " can be " illuminated and helped to penetrate in the direction of reality " . |
| 17 | She pretended to search in the folds of her habit , where she had previously concealed the fox bag . |
| 18 | Readers of the great Victorian novelists rejoiced to find in the final chapters how summarily justice was meted out to the villains ; some were perplexed that the Almighty often failed to knot up loose ends equally satisfactorily . |
| 19 | Viewers saw him explode with fury at militiamen who tried to stand in the way of aid convoys , and shake with emotion at the tragic plight of victims of ethnic cleansing . |
| 20 | Suppliers selected for trial should be notified and invited to participate in the planning organisation . |
| 21 | As usual they walked past the toy shop and Pete stopped to look in the window . |
| 22 | She spotted a telephone kiosk , and stopped to look in the telephone directory . |
| 23 | The man stood very close to her , pretended to look in the window , advanced with a curious sideways movement and said — |
| 24 | Poor countries , rather than banning imports of hazardous waste — as the Organisation of African Unity tried to do in the 1989 Bamako convention — should accept it and legalise it . |
| 25 | Some are reduced from earlier polyphonic forms , others were expanded into them ( just as Selle promised to do in the preface to his Mono-Phonetiea , published at Hamburg in 1636 , his earliest really monodic publication ) . |
| 26 | In this case , the bouquet was a curved shower , the shape of which I tried to recreate in the picture shown opposite . |
| 27 | The Frenchman had swept past him , and now tried to turn in the clinging rye . |
| 28 | In the game larder , pheasants and duck and partridge hung by their necks in winter time , and bunches of snipe waited , pin-eyes closed , to be plucked — once Nicandra picked up a little bird , too mangled to hang in the bunch and faced him with a fellow . |
| 29 | She later married an Ulsterman and moved to live in the province . |
| 30 | Part of the secret , as I tried to demonstrate in the last chapter , is the way in which we discuss again and again our ideas and proposals up and down the company , continuously adjusting , altering and probing our positions until , at last , we reach a conclusion which we can all accept and work to . |