Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb past] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I used ter sit at me front door when the weavver was good , an' when it was cold I used ter lay in bed till dinner-time . |
2 | By the time of this conference on 21 May , the immediate future of one of the six formations listed above had in fact already been determined . |
3 | ’ You have very similar motives in someone as charismatic as David as you do in the mute lad I played in Trapped In Silence . |
4 | Caro woke up covered in sweat , the bitter taste still in her throat . |
5 | In the miners ' dispute Lord Wilberforce became deeply enmeshed in job evaluation , the social and physical conditions in the pits and , above all , the need to produce a settlement under which the miners would go back to work . |
6 | The remaining 75 per cent — much of it ground down to toxic sludge and non-degradable waste — ends up dumped in landfill sites . |
7 | Lab work , for example , was a matter of getting the ‘ right ’ answer ; failure to do so resulted in loss of marks . |
8 | " Do you think he did n't believe me ? " whispered Joseph , but Chuck merely shrugged in reply . |
9 | He would often turn up at the factory in his best suit , get involved in a maintenance problem with his fitter and end up covered in grease . |
10 | All of the Crohn 's disease specimens showed evidence of transmural TNF α immunoreactivity , with increased numbers of TNF α+; macrophages also found in muscularis externa and serosa . |
11 | Shamed by having to say no whenever I was asked if an urgent document could be dispatched to me down the telephone — feeling badly outfaxed in fact — I had finally succumbed . |
12 | A MAN due to get married today appeared in court yesterday accused of attempting to murder his aunt . |