Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun prp] [vb past] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had post-graduate study in Canada lined up for the following year and was looking for short-term employment . |
| 2 | Rumours of impending action in Algiers filtered back to him , and on 11 May the editor of a leading Algiers newspaper published the first public appeal for his return . |
| 3 | Yet it took a script that just about every major actress in Hollywood turned down to make her a star . |
| 4 | A hoax in Newcastle shut down the main BR railway station , and in Tyne and Wear thousands of tube passengers were stranded when all 46 Metro stations were evacuated while 37 miles of track was searched . |
| 5 | Eleanor Rathbone , for example , from her wide experience of charitable work in Liverpool pointed out : |
| 6 | Between October 1989 and October 1991 , the number of people under 25 without work in Darlington shot up by nearly one third , from 995 to 1,307 , he said . |
| 7 | Although his work in Kidderminster took up so much of his time and energy , Richard Baxter 's vision extended beyond the confines of his own parish . |
| 8 | Peter Donaldson of Red Lion Bookshop in Colchester spelled out the indirect effects of the Dillons discounting campaign quite graphically : ‘ One person came into the shop and was uncertain about buying Michael Palin 's Pole to Pole because she thought she would be able to buy it cheaper in Dillons . |
| 9 | Unpleasant details of the effects of war in Vietnam filtered through : there were stories of servicemen on drugs and of rebellious troops turning on their officers . |
| 10 | In one year , 30 per cent of the workforce at the up-scale Marriott Marquis in Atlanta came up with 2800 suggestions to improve service . |
| 11 | It is a long time since any potential national leader in Britain leapt up from the starting-blocks in quite such a dramatic way . |
| 12 | In August a UN/EC conference in London laid out principles for peace . |
| 13 | A punter at Pontefract races collected £24,843 for a 10p investment while another customer at a Tote betting shop in Paddington picked up £12,421 for a 5p outlay . |
| 14 | Someone was taking a frightful chance I felt ; these games were always held on a Sunday and the English community in Baghdad came out to the camp as several matches were played in the afternoon . |
| 15 | The Industrial Revolution in Europe brought about an environment with a considerable element of child labour , making large families advantageous . |
| 16 | THE FLOOD of refugees fleeing the escalating conflict in Bosnia-Hercegovina took on crisis proportions at the weekend . |
| 17 | Old records show a quake in Calcutta killed around 300,000 people in 1737 and in 1976 the Tangshan earthquake in China wiped out 242,000 . |
| 18 | At the 1981 Salzburg Easter Festival , the Herbert von Karajan Foundation in Salzburg teamed up with Sony , Philips , and the Polygram group to announce the imminent launch of the compact disc . |
| 19 | But in any case it follows that the necessary prerequisite for ordination is the presence of a baptized human being ( not a monkey — in that God in Christ took on humanity ) . |
| 20 | But rather that in the incarnation God in Christ took on humanity ( the universal ) ; which is not to imply that he did not have particularities , which indeed one has to have to be human . |
| 21 | Scientists at the Agricultural Research Experimental Station in Ismailia carried out six months of tests with the polymer . |
| 22 | An engineer at a nuclear power station in Pennsylvania set off radiation alarms as he ‘ walked into work ’ . |
| 23 | On the Moscow Petrograd line workers reported in the middle of February that they had not been paid for all January ; in the Caucasus the backlog in August stretched back to October 1921 . |
| 24 | Anyway , Benguiat made up to him and gave him a big kiss and then the next day things got bad again because Parkinson was going to in room number two above this floor to sort out his slides and Benguiat had been in there and evidently he had just decided to tuck his shirt in and loosen his trousers and while he was tucking his shirt in Parkinson came in and says aha , caught you with your pants down , and Benguiat storms out of the room . |
| 25 | The Burton Property Trust developed project is due to open in August and fears have been expressed that it could harm town trade if tenants with a current presence in Darlington moved in . |
| 26 | An old miner in Barnsley summed up the euphoria : |
| 27 | As a distant bell in Port-au-Prince tolled out the stroke of midnight , the drums ceased and the candle-holder in the lead halted at the rickety cemetery gates . |
| 28 | All the simmering anger in Jess flared up . |
| 29 | Last year 's attempts by the BJP to build a Hindu temple on the disputed site of a mosque in Ayodhya sparked off murderous riots across the nation . |
| 30 | There consul in Rome came up on an official visit and there was nearly a diplomatic incident when he got thrown out of the new university canteen he come to expect . |