Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one day Kirsty met an old friend who happened to have consulted me in the past for regression therapy . |
| 2 | and criticizing the royal family , we have admired and criticized them in the course of the last half hour . |
| 3 | That has since happened in England and Wales , although the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities said it had heard nothing in the past year from the Scottish Office . |
| 4 | We 've already checked everyone in the piazza once . ’ |
| 5 | I am grateful to my colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Britain for the help and opportunities they have given me in the preparation of this book . |
| 6 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 7 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 8 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 9 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 10 | No such fears limited them in the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 11 | ‘ Indeed you would n't find better anywhere , ’ said Mrs Bennet who had joined them in the cellar with her daughter . |
| 12 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
| 13 | Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons . |
| 14 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |
| 15 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 16 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 17 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 18 | ‘ It has devastated everyone in the organisation . |
| 19 | Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government . |
| 20 | At once , he could see that it was the same monstrous nightmare that had attacked them in the basement . |
| 21 | A funny thing for a gyno to say out of the blue — and the first time he 's ever looked me in the eye . |
| 22 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 23 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 24 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 25 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 26 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 27 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 29 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 30 | ‘ He found out next day that Molassi had knifed somebody in the confusion . |