Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 2 | Pauline Kael admitted in The New Yorker that , ‘ reviewing this perfect nothing of a movie is rather degrading : it 's like giving consumer hints on the latest expensive worthless gift for the person who has everything ’ . |
| 3 | In a separate case last Friday , Mr Justice Popplewell ruled in the High Court that the courts were not an appropriate place to decide a child 's educational needs . |
| 4 | Amid tight security the Presidents of the United States , Colombia , Peru and Bolivia met in the Colombian Caribbean resort of Cartagena and signed on Feb. 15 the Cartagena Declaration , pledging their governments to intensify and co-ordinate efforts to curb the consumption , production and trafficking of cocaine . |
| 5 | Mills arose in the remote valleys below the moors , and hamlets and villages quickly clustered around them . |
| 6 | That night , Ted and Jim met in the local pub to discuss the situation . |
| 7 | The bodies of nine crewman who were killed when their Hercules crashed in the Scottish Highlands a week ago , will be flown back to RAF Lyneham tomorrow . |
| 8 | ( 1988 b ) support this interpretation by demonstrating that the VS pre-exposure treatment will produce perfectly good latent inhibition when the CS used in the conditioning phase is itself vinegar followed by sucrose , an arrangement that should ensure that the same representation of vinegar is activated on both occasions . |
| 9 | Luce surfaced in the early hours of the morning to find that she was still enfolded in Michele 's arms . |
| 10 | Originally , Claudia and John Roberts lived in the top two floors of their tall , double-fronted end-of-terrace house , a walk away from London 's Regent 's Park and Primrose Hill . |
| 11 | It is clear in any case that the growing size of the middle class must change fundamentally the image of capitalist society as one in which class antagonisms are simplified , and ‘ society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other — bourgeoisie and proletariat ’ , which Marx and Engels depicted in the Communist Manifesto and which Marxists and other socialists generally accepted without much questioning until the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 12 | And what we have are as follows , one , a manual , which Dennis mentioned in the red folder . |
| 13 | Faced with the dilemma of dropping a shot or ‘ playing her as she lies ’ , after long deliberations , O'Leary waded in the 4-foot deep water and out went his chances of winning . |
| 14 | SURREY rallied in the final quarter to beat Essex Metropolitan 59–55 and retain the English Counties League title on Saturday . |
| 15 | Alternative plans to neutralise Afghanistan surfaced in the early 1980s in the West and the Third World among academics and diplomats . |
| 16 | That first visit when I stayed at the Al Ain Hilton seemed in the dim past . |
| 17 | It 's funny er when Richard came in the other day and said he 'd been he 'd been to the dentist and you said oh well they have n't been in touch with us yet . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a chap called Summers came in the other day . |
| 19 | Müncheberg 's Staffel returned in the early evening as escorts to Italian bombers , engaging six Hurricanes over Luqa . |
| 20 | For the record , Wright finished in the top ten in last year 's Dinah Shore and the US Open , while her stroke average for 1992 was a career-best 72.42 . |
| 21 | Samson scratched in the thick black hairs on his huge arms that were pitted by spark burns from the forge . |
| 22 | In January 1863 Golovnin acquiesced in the outright transfer of responsibility for censorship to the Ministry of Internal Affairs . |
| 23 | ‘ Mani manent cum nostris semper in aeternum , Primarche ! ’ the Reclusiarch chanted in the hieratic religious tongue , which his listeners only comprehended to be a blend of sacred plainsong and occult invocation . |
| 24 | Frankie blinked in the bright light , then turned his gaze reluctantly to the arched alcove on his left . |
| 25 | Delaney , Nell and Andrevitch lay in the cramped area of a bifurcation of the vent , dark , claustrophobic , sweating — but safe . |
| 26 | Meredith shivered in the damp air , wondering how many merchants had stored their riches here in the past . |
| 27 | Increasing pressure for the relaxation of the strict deadlines for motor vehicle emission standards and for the attainment of NAAQSs resulted in the Clean Air Amendments of 1977 . |
| 28 | Much of the continuing Soviet obsession with CENTO was directed against Iran , whose position in CENTO was reinforced by the effective military guarantee from the United States contained in the bilateral agreement of 1959 . |
| 29 | ( Notice the similarity between this analysis and the reinterpretation of Keynes outlined in the previous section . ) |
| 30 | At least that was the diagnosis that the MO gave in the listless heat of the monsoon . |