Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eventually sold it in 1972 for £35 and bought an ancient wood-trimmed Morris Traveller , but no car as been as dear to us as Curtis . |
| 2 | Berwickshire was surveyed by John Blackadder and Ainslie only engraved it in 1797 . |
| 3 | The driver of the train did n't see him until it was too late , the engine literally cut him in half , he must have died instantly . |
| 4 | I only took it in social situations . |
| 5 | She would be hurting no one because , even if Rune had lied and was still involved in some emotional way with Lotta , the Swedish girl had already assumed they were lovers and obviously accepted them in that role without suffering undue pain . |
| 6 | She only had them in bloody September like . |
| 7 | Er I du n no , I just found it in one of my |
| 8 | An attempt was also made to take the vacuum pump body , but its weight and bulk seemed to defeat the thief , who nevertheless hid it in nearby bushes . |
| 9 | and just stuck it in little boxes , like little boxes and |
| 10 | Erm so , in principle we 've agreed that schedule , er I 'm waiting for erm Bob to sort V I out and the name erm as you may be aware erm Bob wants to call it client servicing and our view was that by and large it was n't a question of having to have loads more different screens we just needed them in different areas and they could , they 'd go to Louise to get where people were going to be and it 's mostly about the R S six thousand for commission erm on which there are only about twenty of those anyway , twenty seven so I did n't really see that as being a major issue . |
| 11 | If people genuinely wanted social change from the educational system ( and they did ) , they generally wanted it in familiar guise . |
| 12 | She just destroyed it in one go . |
| 13 | Thompson won the Olympic title that year , 1980 , successfully defended it in 1984 and has n't completed a decathlon since finishing fourth in the 1988 Games in Seoul . |
| 14 | ‘ I hardly recognised you in that sharp gear ! ’ she teased him . |
| 15 | Er can I er I I started to comment on about the er er bank accounts and which are y you know er my the reaction that I saw was all round the table er I think we would go further but er any company handling pension funds should carry pensions somewhere in their names on all on all their paperwork etcetera so that everybody 's totally clear that they are dealing with pension funds and er er to agree with a comment that you made in one of your earlier reports that er designation of bonus of shares of pension funds should be clearly er marked on those shares er that also would have a at least alerted these financial institutions as once again that they were handling stocks belonging to pension funds and they still ignored it in that that w case that they did , but er they would have not had the excuse that er apparently some of them have made that er they were not aware that these were pension fund assets . |
| 16 | Apart from the symphonies , Mozart 's compositions of 1788 include the Piano Concerto in C , K.503 , written in February ( it is not known if Mozart ever played it in public ) ; several new numbers for the Vienna première of Don Giovanni in May ( despite starring Caterina Cavalieri as Donna Elvira and Aloysia Lange as Donna Anna , the opera was even less successful there than Figaro , having only 15 further performances ) ; three piano trios written for Puchberg ; a piano sonata , and a quantity of light vocal music . |
| 17 | He was not quick to anger and confrontation ; shocks caught up with him slowly and he usually faced them in solitary depression rather than by throwing a scene . |
| 18 | It 's only thirty-seven or thirty-eight miles to Stratford — and Lewis here once managed it in half an hour . ’ |
| 19 | Mr O'Shea said that in an ideal world , Mr O'Keeffe 's point was absolutely valid and he totally supported him in that . |
| 20 | Hamilton picked up a pencil , and deliberately snapped it in two . |
| 21 | Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . |
| 22 | Wealthy friends who still held him in high regard as a man , raised money and set the family up in a 500 acre property which they arranged in the names of Mrs. Piper and the children . |
| 23 | Also , by implication , Bukharin was challenging the views of Rosa Luxemburg , and all who since followed her in this matter , in her assumption that arms production is a field for the creation of surplus-value . |
| 24 | ‘ You nearly expected me in vain , ’ the Friar said . |
| 25 | Business Week , in February 1989 , also ranked them in fourth position , with 1988 revenues of $55m. earned from 1185 searches by 118 consultants . |
| 26 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 27 | He also told her in great detail what kind of a woman Gina was . |
| 28 | This lay demand for teaching about contemplative spirituality together with the particular emphases of individual mystics who met and also stimulated it in fourteenth-century England , both represents , and engages with , a complex web of theological and socio-historical developments . |
| 29 | Other Palestinian groups , including the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas ) and even Syrian-based " rejectionist " groups , also supported him in this . |
| 30 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |