Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 2 | He also became embroiled in another conflict with Britain over Syria and Lebanon . |
| 3 | At first the Empire knights looked unstoppable as they drove the Goblin wolf riders from the field , but soon both sides became embroiled in hand-to-hand combat where the Knights ' lances were hindered by the close press of warriors . |
| 4 | Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space . |
| 5 | And it also served to draw stings : it ensured the main issue got cloaked in unimportant wranglings . |
| 6 | ‘ Miraculously they swept you round to Gullholm , where I must have found you minutes after you got caught in that inlet . ’ |
| 7 | West Ham 's Julian Dicks got booked in this skirmish . |
| 8 | When Aerial Arts , the original manufacturers , ceased trading in serious debt to Cyclone Hovercraft , the Rotax agents , Cyclone Air Sports took over the rights to the Chaser . |
| 9 | Immanuel Yelikovsky 's idea that the Earth stopped rotating in Old Testament times is attractive , as Martin Gardner points out in his recent Science , Good , Bad and Bogus , because it seems to verify the Old Testament . |
| 10 | Whether or not a family moved depended in large measure on the amount of land that they held and on the number of landholding branches . |
| 11 | ‘ P-please , sir , we tried to go in straight lines . |
| 12 | Held , granting the application , that the coroner had wrongly precluded himself from considering whether the cause of death had been aggravated by lack of care ; that where the medical cause of death was accompanied by concurrent events which themselves might be a cause of death , there was a case for considering the death ‘ unnatural ’ within the meaning of section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 , and an inquest should be held ; that the statutory duty imposed by section 11(5) of the Act of 1988 to investigate how death occurred prevailed in any conflict with the provision in rule 42 of the Coroners Rules 1984 that verdicts should not be framed so as to appear to decide any issue of civil liability ; that it was in the public interest to investigate by means of an inquest whether the deceased 's death might have been avoided had an ambulance been available earlier ; and that , accordingly , the coroner 's decision not to hold an inquest would be quashed and an order of mandamus granted for an inquest to be held ( post , pp. 491E , H , 493C–D , E–F ) . |
| 13 | I thought people stopped believing in that years ago . ’ |
| 14 | Did this fragmentation of your original family leave a longing which you then tried to appease in any way through literature ? |
| 15 | Except that it if it involved waiting in this corridor for much longer , one of the security cameras might start to register her despite all diversionary moves , and she should therefore now take a break of at least six hours before coming back here . |
| 16 | A number of deaf men attempted to enlist for the Army , but many were rejected on grounds of deafness , including four who tried to enlist in one day at an enlisting station in Wales . |
| 17 | The effort of getting up the third and fourth flights , which I tried to manage in one go , muddled me somehow . |
| 18 | They trained to land in various numbers , although in later years some nine men made up the team in a powered dory . |
| 19 | He could hardly keep his eyes open and tried jumping in cold baths to keep himself awake , but only felt cold as well as tired . |
| 20 | Boys caught dealing in evil tapes |
| 21 | ‘ He promised to stay in regular contact , but I have n't received a single phone call . ’ |
| 22 | The KMT Chinese entered Tonking in massive numbers . |
| 23 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 24 | Suppose that he recently sold bonds short ( ie , promised to deliver in future bonds which he did not then own ) when prices were at their peak . |
| 25 | So , many of the migrant mechanics and artisans found housing in surrounding towns and villages . |
| 26 | The troops of both sides stopped fighting in many places . |
| 27 | This was so successful that the army stopped cycling in some districts . |
| 28 | Francie stopped playing in mid cadence . |
| 29 | as he tried to explain in rhyming verse |
| 30 | If children approached schooling in this manner schools would have no wish to ‘ lose ’ their pupils , the throughflow of children with genuine adjustment problems in units would be assured and the ‘ moral order ’ re-established . |