Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 2 | A journalist attacked him in 1791 for the ‘ permanent predominant prejudice , that the music is everything , and the words , nothing ’ at the Opéra : ‘ one is made aware of just one author , the author of the music . ’ |
| 3 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |
| 4 | On 13 October , the Leader of the Opposition described it in three different ways — which is typical of him . |
| 5 | The US President received him in 1978 and so did the Queen — but the purges went on . |
| 6 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 7 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 8 | Transfer to the Admiralty enabled him in 1920 to attend evening classes in writing and illuminating at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 9 | As a peasant from the Kursk guberniia put it in 1922 : ‘ We are not for priests nor for the church , but if only the Comrades would give us a little of what they promise : they promise a school and Socialism , but our hands are still as empty as ever . ’ |
| 10 | As one social purity advocate put it in 1949 : ‘ the family is the yardstick to measure values by … and the stability of the family unit is of major importance to the health and welfare of the community ’ . |
| 11 | Whistle Down The Wind did it in 1961 and made Hayley Mills a child star . |
| 12 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 13 | The Consumers ' Association said one in 10 people was unhappy with the running of current accounts , the same figure as a year ago when the association condemned high street banks for ‘ breathtaking arrogance ’ . |
| 14 | The Consumers ' Association said one in 10 people was unhappy with the running of current accounts , the same figure as a year ago when the association condemned high street banks for ‘ breathtaking arrogance ’ . |
| 15 | The proportion averaged one in five for Inner London as a whole , but at borough level ranged from almost 30 per cent in Haringey to under 10 per cent for Kensington and Chelsea and was in fact highest for an outer borough — Brent — at 33.5 per cent . |
| 16 | By the summer of 1925 his growing disillusionment manifested itself in ceaseless role-playing , posing , self-interrogation . |
| 17 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 18 | The guard examined it in close detail , checking off the listed physical peculiarities . |
| 19 | Decorum demanded it in any case . |
| 20 | Tim Renton , Minister for the Arts , has caused a storm by calling into question one of the main dogmas of British arts administration , the so-called arm's-length principle ‘ government funding through semi-independent institutions ’ , as Lord Keynes , the architect of the Arts Council put it in 1945 . |
| 21 | The exchange put him in excellent mood for his breakfast . |
| 22 | This magnificent , and still valuable , work earned him in 1920 the Lyell medal of the Geological Society of London ( of which he was a senior fellow and later vice-president ) and an honorary doctorate ( 1919 ) from the University of Wales . |
| 23 | The princess bought hers in 1988 before going on a visit to Australia . |
| 24 | Her hard work and determination set her in good stead for the confrontation she had had with the Johnson representative , Albert Buller . |
| 25 | The girl held them in approved BHS fashion . |
| 26 | Her body emptied itself in all its chambers . |
| 27 | But figures produced for 13 years by the Dundonald nursery show that the nursey created one in 10 new plants every year instead . |
| 28 | Rain caught her in both arms , held her tight , and knew it was only her grasp which kept the woman upright . |
| 29 | When Pennant visited it in 1772 there were three farmers living in it with their stock and crops and at times in the summer months as many as twelve families were known to stay in it at once and it was the headquarters of those employed in the manufacture ( if kelp . |
| 30 | The plaintiff encouraged him in this behaviour . |