Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One survivor recalled that having made up her mind to do this , she asked her elder sister to put in a word for her . |
| 2 | What is clear , however , is that decentralization ushered in a new form of uneven development . |
| 3 | This recommendation ushered in a period of campaigning for and against the change . |
| 4 | In 1968 another coup brought in a purely Baath regime in its place . |
| 5 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 6 | The pastoral letter ushered in a week of anti-government protests that found the regime less than monolithic . |
| 7 | It takes only one leak to sink a ship , one gate to let in a Trojan horse . |
| 8 | From this secure position , it extends a long tube , its siphon , along the tunnel and into the open water to suck in a current that brings with it minute particles of food . |
| 9 | In historical studies the actual quotation from the appropriate Act of Parliament or the speech from Hansard or the letter from the collected correspondence may be the vital piece of information which needs to be placed in its right position to fill in a sort of jigsaw pattern which gives what can only be the one consistent answer . |
| 10 | We were perhaps selected by someone with a sense of humour who thought that we might be the right couple to bring in a Queen 's Speech which increases the penalties for mutiny in prisons . |
| 11 | The modern ferry comes in a good deal farther south , beneath slabs of World War Two concrete fortifications . |
| 12 | The were about to select from the sweet trolley when , at a nod from his mother , the proprietor dimmed the houselights and a young waitress brought in a surprise birthday cake , the reflection from the candles throwing her face into warm relief . |