Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She mostly lived in the country and she was rich . |
| 2 | In their place she pinned up a poster of a starving black child and a chart which eventually recorded a handsome donation to the Biafran famine relief fund , amassed by the girls from a summer fair , Christmas carol-singing and a sponsored fast during which Suzie Chamfer histrionically fainted in the lavatories . |
| 3 | Many species live , and presumably lived in the past , in inland or upland sites where little sediment accumulates . |
| 4 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 5 | Below them , on the far side , and the various storage compartments , sliding desk , etc. described in the text ; on the near side is the hatch covering the box extension into which the legs could be stretched when the carriage was used for sleeping . |
| 6 | Slowly beat in the milk , 2fl oz of water and seasoning to taste . |
| 7 | He eventually surfaced in the hospital kitchens , where , through his flirtatious manner with a fat lard-like female cook , he had managed to scrounge a free meal . |
| 8 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 9 | Fortunately , much of the fuss has abated , but not before hundreds of the dogs were abandoned or , worse still , brutally mistreated in the name of discipline . |
| 10 | A limp rope , lying unseen across the track suddenly rose in the air and was pulled tight between two trees . |
| 11 | promising life like frantic oracles ; and they only stopped in the morning , promised |
| 12 | and they only stopped in the morning , |
| 13 | When at last he came to see her , he obviously believed in the story of the German and she was too proud to tell him the truth . |
| 14 | They only differed in the positioning of the Drosophila simulans and Ephestia cautella microorganisms within the PM/CIM group . |
| 15 | For although I am sure he never had the chance to encounter a tiger beneath the dining table , when I think over all that I know or have heard concerning him , I can think of at least several instances of his displaying in abundance that very quality he so admired in the butler of his story . |
| 16 | Labbe ( 1926 ) thought that the shells of embryos were usually imbricated , but that the character only persisted in the shells of dog-whelks living in sheltered sites . |
| 17 | The animal suddenly leapt in the air in a terrifying spasm of pain before collapsing , choking on its own blood . |
| 18 | No I did n't , I only went in the hall for that paper . |
| 19 | Andy merely stared in the direction of the anonymous photographer but his eyes were murderous . |
| 20 | So went in the car park , turned back took the first er er , er well I did a right then |
| 21 | Mrs Nicholas Beaumont , whose husband is Clerk of the Course , and whom I only saw in the distance ; Mr and Mrs Oliver Sherwood , Major and Mrs Peter Wiggin , Mr and Mrs Tim Dawson , Mr Harry Middleton , Mrs Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie , Colonel and Mrs Tommy Wallis , and their daughter Mrs Charles Baker ; Mr and Mrs John Guest , Mrs Tom Scott , Mr Peter Dimmock , and Mrs George Beeby . |
| 22 | When painting Cornish scenes Minton had been aware of the precedent set by Christopher Wood and The Times rightly saw in The Harbour an attempt to translate a Christopher Wood theme ‘ into the tragic idiom of modern painters ’ . |
| 23 | Colebrooke , much lampooned in the press , was a rather pompous , self-important man who considered himself to be the second most influential politician in England . |
| 24 | Since then they had come into contact over one or two smaller matters , and it was to him that Greg naturally went in the aftermath of Hilda Machin 's death . |
| 25 | All , including women , were to have one vote , but the educated were to have more in proportion to the level of their education ; this , Mill believed , would provide a safeguard against the ignorance , selfishness and brutality which he so feared in the mass of the people . |
| 26 | Events which took place in the course of the proceedings below resulted in the bank recovering , on account of its charge , £60,000 . |
| 27 | It must be something of the sentiment that inspired the war poets , enduring indescribable ugliness — the mutilation and destruction of people and places amongst the fragile flowers that nature silently but abundantly proffered in the stench , decay and squalor of the trenches . |
| 28 | The remaining taller dancers , called Les John Tiller Folies Stars , not only appeared in the production numbers with the rest of the cast but also had their own numbers . |
| 29 | The Leader of the Opposition apparently said in the campaign for the Langbaurgh by-election that £2.6 billion extra would be spent on education by a future Labour Government . |
| 30 | We were all most impressed with our German hosts and the pride that they obviously had in the town . |