Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [adv prt] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These jennies were either collected in small workshops or placed out in cottages and seem to have brought increased earnings to many women in the cloth-working families , albeit for a short period until the machines got larger and , more importantly , the largely male-worked spinning mule began to replace the jenny . |
| 2 | The misery of our troops huddled in their impromptu lines or strung out in shell-holes , can not be pictured in words . ’ |
| 3 | I stared at him , wondering what was going on in that complex mind of his , what his real motive was in pushing north by car when we could have had a good night 's sleep and flown up in daylight . |
| 4 | The leaves flew and scattered around in fragments , brushing their bodies and sticking to their wet cheeks . |
| 5 | Ph D research may not in itself produce the major theoretical advances in science , but the personal developmental effects may , if carried out in centres of excellence , combine with good training to produce scientists capable of making such advances . |
| 6 | Lower ranks of the army in the troubled Tuareg areas of northern Niger were reported in the four days to Aug. 31 to have imposed martial law , ordered a curfew , and carried out in Agades , Arlit and Tchirozerine , a wave of arrests of alleged members or sympathizers of the Liberation Front of Air and Azawad ( FLAA ) . |
| 7 | Cheered and keyed up in expectation of the pleasant story-book sight in prospect , her hot hand squeezing the scone in her pocket , she followed the path as it passed under the line of windows , before it skirted the domed conservatory where flowers were grown for the house : cactus , geraniums , gloxinia , palms , bird of paradise , passion-flower , maidenhair fern , all throve here in damp and forceful luxury . |
| 8 | 7.3 Orders shall not be binding on unless and until accepted by in writing , by telefax or by telex . |
| 9 | now she 's gone and moved down in West . |
| 10 | He seemed unusually anxious to get rid of her , and that was n't due to his embarrassment at being rejected and shown up in front of his friends as a bully . |
| 11 | That car was found dumped and burnt out in Bristol and inquiries are centering around there . |
| 12 | And than they stayed for months , indeed years , until driven out in pain and indignity . |
| 13 | English reinforcements approaching along the edge of the Carse were intercepted by the Earl of Moray and driven off in disorder , leaving heavy casualties . |
| 14 | Their grandparents may have been brought over as forced labour when Korea was still a colony , but even descendants born and brought up in Japan are denied civil service jobs and positions with major corporations . |
| 15 | Given that I was born and brought up in Middlesex and spent my childhood idolising Compton and Edrich |
| 16 | He was born and brought up in Cardiff . |
| 17 | ‘ We were both born and brought up in Heymouth . ’ |
| 18 | WAS born and brought up in Edinburgh during the days when Scotland 's capital merited its ancient title , ‘ Auld Reekie ’ . |
| 19 | Chris had a normal middle-class background , with the exception of the fact that he had been adopted and brought up in Sutton Coldfield by step-parents called Bott . |
| 20 | Faith Abraham , who used to work in a factory making artificial jewellery , is married to a labourer ; she was born and brought up in Ireland : |
| 21 | Mrs. J. E. Duncton ( Chichester District Council ) was born and brought up in Petworth and Upperton . |
| 22 | FEMALE CIRCUMCISION UK , again produced by Louise Panton , reveals that despite the 1985 Act , young girls born and brought up in Britain are still circumcised , and in the most radical way . |
| 23 | The war 's momentum was too great for George to stop it quickly , but when he said in his speech ‘ I glory in the name of Briton ’ he was stressing the fact that , unlike George I and George II , he had been born and brought up in Britain , possessed an overseas empire to be proud of , and saw no need to pay particular attention to the problems of Hanover . |
| 24 | , John ( 1789–1852 ) , political economist and botanist , was born 11 June 1789 in Southwark , and brought up in Tottenham by his maternal grandfather . |
| 25 | Haya Itzhaky was born and brought up in Israel and graduated from the School of Social Work at Bar-Ilan University in 1973 . |
| 26 | She and Gillian were both in the Leprechauns , being both had Irish parents , although they themselves had been born and brought up in England . |
| 27 | Although born and brought up in England , Alfred found filming in Italy like going home . |
| 28 | Born in York and brought up in Lincolnshire Brenda Costall went to the same school as Margaret Thatcher , Kesteven and Grantham Girls Grammar . |
| 29 | Born and brought up in Montmartre , he was educated at the Ecole Polonaise — an establishment described by Henri Babinski , another celebrated Franco-Polish cookery writer , as one of ferocious austerity — and subsequently at the Lycée Condorcet . |
| 30 | VALERY Ponomarev may have been born and brought up in Moscow , but the idiom and vocabulary of his music is pure New York . |