Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of travellers , parked illegally in a cattle market , moved off peacefully today … but only to a new site sixty yards away . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've never seen that spelled out in a women 's magazine story , or a film , or … a novel . ’ |
| 3 | Field Marshal Montgomery wrote breezily in a services journal : ‘ If we are attacked , we use nuclear weapons in our defence . |
| 4 | When they travelled together in a police car they had driven around in silence . |
| 5 | The subsequent withdrawal from empire , which flowed from these events , was carried out on a strategy set out in a Chiefs of Staff Paper which remained the military planners ' increasingly tattered bible until Roy Mason 's 1974 Defence review made British military strategy synonymous with NATO strategy . |
| 6 | The vehicle and its two occupants now stood silently in a children 's playground . |
| 7 | He was arrested on 25 November 1991 and held overnight in a police cell in Urosevac . |