Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The challenge was taken up by Harry Baker , who being provided with a weight placed it in a backet and walked from Halling Institute to Snodland Institute , so winning the bet , but he had more difficulty collecting his winnings . |
| 2 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 3 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 4 | It is a great pity that Fate placed her in a situation which allowed her no chance to properly exploit an undeniable talent . |
| 5 | His years in England as a student of law involved him in an earnest effort of adaptation , and it is clear from his own account that he absorbed through his reading and his acquaintance a sense of British moral aspiration , for which he acquired a genuine respect . |
| 6 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 7 | The neon striped it in the air . |
| 8 | Had my Pop passed me in the street , he would n't have recognised me . |
| 9 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 10 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 11 | Fortunately the steam clothed us in a little decency . |