Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relationship between Government educationists and villagers was a political one , and created the seeds of resentment and conflict that eventually spilled over in 1979 with the overthrow of the Shah . |
| 2 | ‘ He very politely pointed out in each case , ’ recalled Mountbatten , ‘ that it was not the way he would have phrased it , and so it remained virtually unchanged . |
| 3 | I am speaking now of its Belgrade side , of the old men in the Academy who wished to complete Serb history because it seemed to them that it had not been properly completed back in 1918 . |
| 4 | Daily food reintroductions were successfully carried out in 64 patients with subsequent exclusion of suspect foods . |
| 5 | The Area successfully tendered for another section of the M74 ( Elvanfoot ) which will be mostly carried out in 1993 . |
| 6 | ‘ I can see the point he was trying to make — the Pallas ' Sandgrouse only turns up in this country once every 10 or 20 years . |
| 7 | only picked out in sudden revelations . |
| 8 | No doubt he 'd enjoyed this association with young men , trousers and jackets endlessly tried on in curtained booths . |
| 9 | The British Empire and the United States will have to be somewhat mixed up in some of their affairs for mutual and general advantage . |
| 10 | Do n't get so caught up in this fantasy that you miss all the opportunities the real world has to offer . |
| 11 | It must be odd , she thought , for a stranger to be suddenly caught up in these life or death struggles . |
| 12 | Although nothing was especially valuable , we had all grown up in that house and these things had special associations . |
| 13 | If I am daft enough to tackle up in those conditions I usually go to sleep and hope I wake up to a change for the better . |
| 14 | That grievous bodily harm thing was coming up at a special court this morning , but that ought to be all wrapped up in half an hour . |
| 15 | Both give us the sense of oppression and lack of freedom ; if you are confined to a region , you can only move around in that region . |
| 16 | In contact with other women the separatist becomes more and more impatient with women who to them seem stubbornly bogged down in male values . |
| 17 | He apologised for NeXTStep 3.0 being 60 days late , claimed that Mach is object-oriented and that a bit of Unix is only dragged along in NeXT for compatibility . |
| 18 | It was a large room , an Aladdin 's cave to any would-be falconer , filled with expensive-looking equipment : bags and lures hanging from walls , jesses and leashes all laid out in immaculate order . |
| 19 | But the Swiss Confederation of all 23 cantons was only set up in 1848 . |
| 20 | The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through . |
| 21 | It apparently died out in 1948 , and the present colony was first located at Boreham Street . |
| 22 | Last March he suffered a second agonising defeat in the Gold Cup when Cool Ground proved just too good , and he then lost his French crown when the ground at Auteuil for this July 's Grand Steeplechase came up unsuitably soft and he could only struggle round in eighth place . |
| 23 | The ones able to secure ‘ sugar daddies ’ fooled the poor men into thinking that there was a Tiller rule that they only go out in twos and threes and so managed to get meals for their best friends as well . |
| 24 | He is quick to point out that it 's not just enough to turn up in any of these activities : ‘ You have to prove to the examiners — and to yourself — that you can are willing to put in the effort to improve and better your standards . |
| 25 | Even one daft enough to wake up in early February . |
| 26 | Well she does n't necessarily end up in general practice does she ? |
| 27 | In Aquitaine , between 1451 and 1453 , French armies did indeed meet with resistance : but the fact remains that the battles of Formigny ( 1450 ) and Castillon ( 1453 ) only finished off in dramatic fashion processes which were all but complete when the opposing armies met . |
| 28 | Eight hundred thousand — imagine them drawn up down there on the sea — eight hundred thousand candles all blown out in one gigantic breath . |
| 29 | First , there seems at present less to complain about in most of our primary schools than in secondary or tertiary education . |
| 30 | He had a fleeting image of a bar , of the people inside , of someone singing Chris Rea 's : ‘ Joys of Christmas , Northern Style ’ , and then it had all flashed by in less than a second . |