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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lab work , for example , was a matter of getting the ‘ right ’ answer ; failure to do so resulted in loss of marks . |
| 5 | " Do you think he did n't believe me ? " whispered Joseph , but Chuck merely shrugged in reply . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A MAN due to get married today appeared in court yesterday accused of attempting to murder his aunt . |