Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're in for a storm , ’ Ashley remarked , grimacing as thunder rumbled in the distance . |
| 2 | The original claim by the present plaintiff against the appellants was one for money lent in the sum of £500,000 . |
| 3 | At the end of the nineteenth century , dredging for gravel began in the bay when extensions to Devonport 's naval dockyard were planned , and the sinking of the protective shingle beach left Hallsands exposed to the winter storms , which in 1917 were so severe that after two days only one house was left standing . |
| 4 | A PENNILESS van driver 's master plan for murder ended in the slaughter and dismemberment of a retired bank official and his daughter — for the sake of stealing a car , an Old Bailey jury heard yesterday . |
| 5 | Chartering aircraft for pleasure began in the 1920s . |
| 6 | Her plea for companionship appeared in the Manchester Weekly Journal in 1727 . |
| 7 | But the largest readily accessible reservoir of support lay in the French empire , which the Germans did not occupy and where Vichy 's authority was uncertain . |
| 8 | Evidence of change lay in the increasing local diversity of management arrangements as authorities and managers used their new found autonomy to shape structures and roles to suit themselves . |
| 9 | His shoulders drooped , he expected nothing , but a small flicker of hope showed in the uptilting of his chin . |
| 10 | A slow look of horror showed in the Iranian 's eyes . |
| 11 | The voice of Chaos thundered in the valleys . |
| 12 | A massive crack zig-zagged like lightning through the plaster of the opposite wall as the sounds of thunder roared in the stairwell . |
| 13 | If two such solutions were displayed as in Fig. 24.2(b) , the overall impression given would be the same ; however , sufficiently long after initiation , the times at which the changes of level occurred in the two solutions would be totally uncorrelated . |
| 14 | Local agronomists from the Commissariat of Agriculture discovered in the Samara guberniia that 40 per cent of the machinery that had been hired out was unusable , and virtually all the rest was in need of repairs . |
| 15 | It was — or was taken to be — a recognition of the important truth that the temporary holder of the office of archbishop stood in the place of , and was answerable to , St Augustine and the other saints of his church , and through them to God . |
| 16 | Since the process of democratisation began in the late 1980s , theatre has played an important role in the strengthening the growth of democracy . |
| 17 | Briefly , the argument is as follows : the homosexual is a creation of modern discourse , medical , sexological , and psychological , as evidenced by the fact that the word ‘ homosexual ’ was coined in 1869 : neither it nor the sexual sense of perversion appeared in the OED until its 1933 Supplement . |
| 18 | The description of Sycorax 's magic circulated and of course grew in the telling : scarred by fire , she now played with the element , burning circles of flame round creatures she had demanded Ariel procure for her ; she watched their panic , as they spun in their prison of flames . |
| 19 | The origins of the soul style of cooking began in the American Deep South , among black plantation slaves . |
| 20 | Anti-Darwinian versions of evolutionism flourished in the later decades of the century because they upheld the view that natural development is a more orderly and more purposeful process than natural selection would allow . |
| 21 | The gothic spires of parliament shimmered in the autumnal sunlight as they drove to the far side of Parliament Square and turned right towards Victoria . |
| 22 | When that first cup of coffee was finished , a ball of fear nestled in the pit of my stomach . |
| 23 | To either side great chunks of masonry lay in the tall grasses , pieces of fallen statuary among them . |
| 24 | Letters of appreciation appeared in the local News . |
| 25 | A high level of violence continued in the predominantly Kurdish south-east as the government expressed disquiet over the elections on May 19 for an Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly [ see p. 38934 ] . |
| 26 | As a high level of violence continued in the south , the National Security Council ( NSC ) on June 23 renewed for a further four months from July 19 the state of emergency in force since 1987 in certain areas of the south ( subject to formal approval by the National Assembly ) . |
| 27 | A different sort of light flickered in the distance , and Doyle crouched down , squinting as he sought for shape and identity in the night . |
| 28 | A flicker of light showed in the heavy-lidded eyes . |
| 29 | A FOOT of snow fell in the Scottish Highlands yesterday , bringing chaos to road , rail and air services . |
| 30 | In the North , at Durham Priory , some leasing of demesne began in the late fourteenth century , but the main period at which it was rented out was between 1408 and 1416 , perhaps some two decades later than at Christ Church , Canterbury ( 80 , pp.79 , 90 , 131 ; 209 p.272 ) . |