Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 2 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 3 | He charged the half-mile to the narrow exit lane at the eastern end of the Bay , wedged between the point and the beach , but got trapped in the surging rip current that dragged him towards Coffin Corner , the shipwrecking rocks at the west end of the Bay . |
| 4 | She was aware that these could be developed by investigative work , but once she became immersed in the new curriculum , struggling on occasions to keep her head above water , she began to lose sight of these objectives , focusing instead on the more familiar content objectives . |
| 5 | It is also worth noting that , as the analysts became immersed in the detailed examination , there was a tendency to forget that this was still part of the systems thinking stage , and that the models , activities and related information needs were those that were desirable in systems terms , and not did not necessarily reflect the real situation . |
| 6 | The child climbed out of the cab and became caught in the unguarded pto of the attached implement . |
| 7 | Bodies crushed and absorbed , Tallis-Holly herself became trapped in the quivering , silent forest that filled the stone place . |
| 8 | Readers of the great Victorian novelists rejoiced to find in the final chapters how summarily justice was meted out to the villains ; some were perplexed that the Almighty often failed to knot up loose ends equally satisfactorily . |
| 9 | May Sinclair stopped writing in the late 1920s . |
| 10 | In fact the conditional theory adopts some of the best points of several of the theories found wanting in the previous chapter . |
| 11 | The flame rose untrembling in the still air ; now and again a persistent insect would fly round , in , round and away . |
| 12 | The Frenchman had swept past him , and now tried to turn in the clinging rye . |
| 13 | Some sociology in the USA was therefore understandably characterised by detailed empirical studies of a variety of areas ( particularly the more ‘ seamy ’ side ) of American social life — of delinquent gangs and neighbourhoods , of particular ethnic minorities etc. — though other work , led by Talcott Parsons , involved theorising in the traditional grand manner . |
| 14 | He tried to take in the surrounding countryside that was to be his home during the months that lay ahead — if he lived that long . |
| 15 | That device — whatever the hell it is — that I found in Magee was made of the same material I found melted in the other bodies . ’ |
| 16 | In a recent survey of drug injectors in London , 28% ( 138/499 ) reported injecting in the previous six months with syringes previously used by someone else . |
| 17 | The state-centrist approach leads to empirical enlightenment , as I tried to show in the previous chapter , but at the expense of some theoretical confusion . |
| 18 | When fired you got pushed in the opposite direction to that in which the jet was squirting out . |
| 19 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 20 | The Goths , the Avars , the Lombards , the Huns , the Franks became absorbed in the Romanised populations they dominated . |
| 21 | However , when the results of the referendum were known , it agreed to participate in the new system . |
| 22 | Only 12 per cent of parents interviewed chose a different school from the one currently attended ; the majority opted to remain in the maintained sector . |
| 23 | He crossed the room then slowly lowered himself to his knees before the great tablet , conscious of how the gold leaf of the Ywe Lung seemed to flow in the wavering light of the candles ; how the red lacquer of the background seemed to burn . |
| 24 | We learnt to swim in the opaque water with our little slips sewn up half way seamwise . |
| 25 | The moon was high overhead — a bright , full moon that seemed to float in the dark mirror of the water . |
| 26 | he told them he 'd stopped in the fast lane instead of moving to the hard shoulder because he did n't want to ruin his tyre by driving on after a puncture . |
| 27 | It was the same husky voice that Pascoe had heard when he 'd sat in the empty house at the table laid for one . |
| 28 | Another great Therapy ? story revolves around a character called Eddie Faith , who found religion at a Christian meeting one night , and the next day walked into the local police station and confessed to 24 robberies he 'd committed in the previous year . |
| 29 | I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills . |
| 30 | Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels . |