Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cream the butter and sugar and beat in the eggs , one at a time . |
| 2 | Gradually beat in the eggs , adding a little flour with each to prevent the mixture curdling . |
| 3 | Cream together the butter and sugar in a large bowl and beat in the eggs . |
| 4 | Leave to cool slightly , then gradually beat in the eggs . |
| 5 | Gradually beat in the eggs , stir in the yoghurt and then flour mixture until just combined . |
| 6 | Cool slightly , then beat in the eggs a little at a time . |
| 7 | Gradually beat in the eggs , one at a time — if you add them too quickly the mixture may curdle . |
| 8 | Then beat in the eggs lightly , one at a time . |
| 9 | Gradually beat in the eggs , one at a time , ensuring that each is thoroughly mixed before adding the next one . |
| 10 | Cream the margarine and sugar and beat in the eggs . |
| 11 | Sunlight beat down on them , now the tall mahogany and fig trees were thinned around ; the ferns shrivelled in the shafts ; animals which had wandered in and out of Sycorax 's compound now watered in the creek further upstream , and avoided the company of men . |
| 12 | Jessamy quickly drew in the details , her hand moving with sure confidence over the sheet of paper . |
| 13 | We need not wait for evil to swoop out of the cosmos or ascend from the depths of hell : it is here now , not incarnate in human form but embodied in the structures and philosophies of our modern culture.l It is this contemporary culture with which we must grapple and fight . |
| 14 | The way of life which Jesus described in the beatitudes appears at first sight to be a contradiction . |
| 15 | Life here plays on like a distant , steady backbeat to the often hollow din of modern America caught in the rituals of an election year . |
| 16 | But McDermott refused to be denied completely and he had number five batsman Saeed Anwar caught in the slips for 13 in his 20th over . |
| 17 | The acclaim that he encountered in the streets of two Norman towns ( Isigny and Bayeux ) proved a turning point . |
| 18 | They first appeared in the seventeenth century and ceased to be built after the middle of the nineteenth century , when the advent of portable threshing machines meant that ricks could be built and threshed in the fields and field barns were no longer needed . |
| 19 | In Toronto on that homeward trip I first met Ernest L. Bushnell who had come into radio as one-quarter of a male quartet and who rose in the ranks of Canadian radio until he became the top executive of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation some years later . |
| 20 | This considerable river rose in the highlands near Addis Ababa , flowed down into the Danakil desert but never reached the sea . |
| 21 | In the 1980s , the proportion of spending on economically-orientated schemes , for example , constructing small industrial units , rose in the Partnerships and in the Programme Authorities from 29 per cent of Urban Programme expenditure in 1979–80 to 38 per cent by 1984–5 . |
| 22 | Finally she began to applaud quite spontaneously , her clapping sharp and enthusiastic in the silent barn where the dust rose in the shafts of sunlight . |
| 23 | The voice of Chaos thundered in the valleys . |
| 24 | From there he moved in the mid-1950s to CalTech , where his interest in NMR spectroscopy arose . |
| 25 | Outside , something moved in the shadows . |
| 26 | The crunch came when they moved in the police . |
| 27 | The crises he discerned in the mid-1960s are still powerfully visible in the early 1990s . |
| 28 | The ceasefire in the city held until Sept. 18 , when fighting erupted in the streets of Kushal Mena suburb between the Iranian-backed ( Shia ) Hezb-i-Wahdat faction and the Saudi-backed ( Sunni ) Ittehad-i-Islami . |
| 29 | At the same time , serious unrest erupted in the territories ; three people were killed in rioting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Oct. 8 . |
| 30 | Some of these issues surfaced in the responses of academics to the question : Would you favour an increase or decrease in the proportion of students taking combined/joint degrees ? |