Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's even more exciting when the book in question is about Willy , the marvellous character he created in Willy The Wimp . |
| 2 | On 16 August 1819 there occurred in Manchester the event which came to be known as the Peterloo massacre . |
| 3 | Henry Blake , who was Governor from 1903 to 1907 , believed that ‘ in the majority of cases tried in Ceylon the evidence is unsatisfactory , as there is not alone an utter disregard for truth , but an extraordinary ingenuity of invention . ’ |
| 4 | Most of his contemporaries in Oxford and elsewhere assumed that the only appropriate approach to Jewish studies was through Semitic philology and biblical studies , and Roth never received in Britain the academic recognition that his publications and his international standing ( especially in America and Israel ) merited . |
| 5 | He played in Jack The Ripper |
| 6 | But perhaps she also identified in John the orphan she half recognized herself to be . |
| 7 | One week , when Robins and Levy arrived in Tottenham the paper was n't there . |
| 8 | Eventually we arrived in Moscow the day before the May Day Parade . |
| 9 | But he made it clear when he arrived in Perth the next day that he disagreed with Marsh 's sacking , an interesting observation given that the players ' code of behaviour specifically states that they are not permitted to comment on selection decisions . |
| 10 | De Klerk arrived in Europe the following week on a diplomatic mission to attract overseas foreign investment and political support . |
| 11 | By the time Gloucester arrived in London the council had already committed a considerable amount of money . |
| 12 | By the time Gloucester arrived in London the council had already committed a considerable amount of money . |
| 13 | When these details arrived in Rome the task of going over them was assigned to a senior lawyer or papal auditor , Benedict cardinal priest of St Susanna . |
| 14 | In the midst of these , in 1926 , there arrived in India the man who was to take up the challenge Gandhi had thrown down to the Englishman 's belief in his god-given aptitude for rule — the sixteenth viceroy , Lord Irwin . |
| 15 | When I arrived in Cranham the church was not packed but was getting full on Sunday mornings . |
| 16 | Certainly when the dingoes and their human companions first arrived in Australia the poison-spurs of the platypus found a valuable use as defensive weapons against the new invaders . |
| 17 | By the time the train arrived in Madrid the Arabs had stolen my coat . |
| 18 | They stopped at Melrose and arrived in Earlston the following morning . |
| 19 | Giap arrived in Beijing the next day , the first high-ranking Vietnamese official to visit China openly since CPV general secretary Le Duan visited in late 1977 [ see p. 28913 ] . |
| 20 | By the time I arrived in Canberra the person who had set up the passive avoidance work there , Marie Gibbs , had moved to La Trobe , a campus in Melbourne , several hundred kilometres distant . |
| 21 | As the Allied invasion of the Italian mainland began in September the new Italian government signed an armistice with the Allies . |
| 22 | Rover believes in catching them young as Judith Jackson discovered in Swindon The body shop Motoring . |
| 23 | Coleridge tells us that after he ‘ had successively studied in the schools of Locke , Berkeley , Leibnitz , and Hartley and could find in none of them an abiding place for [ his ] reason ’ ( Biographia Literaria , ix ) he discovered in Germany the writings of ‘ the illustrious sage of Koenigsberg ’ : Immanuel Kant . |
| 24 | Speculation about an impending military offensive against the guerrillas grew when the government announced in July the delivery of specialist US-made anti-guerrilla Bronco OV-10 aircraft . |
| 25 | In the last few months he has been especially active ; for instance , in response to the criticism that art education is much neglected , he announced in January the renovation or rehousing of four art schools , including the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts of Paris . |
| 26 | The very success of the highly intricate crime story ( a success it had also , of course , in America with writers such as Ellery Queen and Rex Stout ) produced in California the toughly direct and forceful private-eye story . |
| 27 | It prompted in Lewis the immediate feeling that MacNeice was ‘ absolutely silent and astonishingly ugly ’ . |
| 28 | He himself made history when , in 1984 , he donated over 1,200 pictures and objects to a foundation he established in Warsaw the first such institution since the war . |
| 29 | The reform was not carried through in the House but the phrenologists urged or reformers elsewhere and , indirectly , their enthusiasm led on to William Forster 's Education Bill of 1870 which established in Britain the system of elementary schools for all . |
| 30 | ‘ After the death of his beloved Queen Taj Mahal , ’ wrote Manucci , ‘ Shah Jehan selected in Hindustan the city of Dihli in order to build there a new city as his capital . |