Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told her to fetch a pencil and paper and when she brought them scribbled down several sentences in capital letters . |
| 2 | It is a phantasmagorical performance , perfected over many years in advertising in which the prime requisite — apart from , or in spite of , talent — is to get yourself noticed , talked about and sought after . |
| 3 | For the next four years he sat as an engrossing clerk on a stool in the dusty office , so thick with dust that it entered the sunbeams ; and bent over crabbed writing in the books , or showed dull clients in to see his father , or sat the examinations , which he passed . |
| 4 | It is not yet known whether Russia will attempt to salvage the nuclear submarine that sank off northern Norway in April 1989 . |
| 5 | I bounced off fat people in double-breasted pinstriped suits , and strode beside young execs and briefcase-bearing , silked women , into the World Trade Centre . |
| 6 | Withdrawal would not undermine the military position of the Far Eastern Command unless the Soviet Union built up military strength in south Korea sufficient to implement an attack on Japan . |
| 7 | Odo de Grandson 's fellow-Savoyard , Jean de Grilly ( d. 1303 ) , was Edward 's lieutenant and seneschal in Aquitaine ( 1266–8 , 1278–87 ) and built up considerable expertise in French and Gascon affairs . |
| 8 | The conflict arose over rival ambitions in Manchuria and Korea . |
| 9 | They formed the great bulk of the riotous crowd in 1749 who , after three sailors had been robbed in a brothel , rioted and burned down bawdy houses in the Strand in a three-day riot , although the only unfortunate Tyburn example made on this occasion was the improbably named Bosavern Penlez , a wig maker . |
| 10 | ‘ Diana came off that plane in Korea as if she has just had a stand-up row with Charles , ’ the aide said . |
| 11 | I DID N'T read the article that stirred up such anger in you , but if I had , I 'd have shared your rage . |
| 12 | The Doctor stirred up numerous feelings in the poet . |
| 13 | Deciding he did n't want to be the ‘ oldest swinger in town ’ he woke up one morning in 1987 with another hangover and decided he 'd had enough . |
| 14 | I earned quite a lot of money though so Oh I was in a really good mood , I woke up this morning in a really good mood , so I kind of danced into work |
| 15 | At last she fell asleep , but it seemed to her that she woke up some time in the night . |
| 16 | TABLE-topping Imperial Pottery and Alexandra Pottery came out joint winners in the latest bi-annual TNT awards . |
| 17 | The police caught him , but his mother came round next day in a Jaguar and paid the landlord three hundred dollars not to prosecute . |
| 18 | His father sold off some copyrights in 1969 when , as Wilson 's lawyers now claim , Brian could not be claimed to be of sound mind . |
| 19 | Lucy threw down three glasses in succession like water in the broiling sun . |
| 20 | He paid off some debts in sheep , and by growing flax at Winchcombe and Cockbury on forty acres , employing 800 poor . |
| 21 | Such theories also opened up other fields in which to search for inspiration . |
| 22 | Corporatist theory opened up another area in which democratic elitism queried standard pluralist reasoning about an open and competitive interest group universe ( see pp. 129 — 30 ) . |
| 23 | The car they used , stolen in Devon , turned up this morning in Gloucester . |
| 24 | US West , an American telecoms firm , and entertainment giant Time Warner , teamed up last month in a $1.5 billion deal to produce just such a service . |
| 25 | Calling on an acting ability not required since her childhood , she covered her patient with a cotton blanket and then hitched up each leg in turn and strapped them into the lithotomy stirrups , thus trapping the hoaxer until the joke had run its course . |
| 26 | He cut a dashing figure at the many conferences he addressed , raising his hand from time to time to stroke his dark curly locks as he poured out pure reason in soft well-modulated tones with a sincerity that was almost painful . |
| 27 | Castle , who introduced himself as ‘ that other castle almost destroyed by smoke ’ as a reference to his battle against lung cancer , handed out 49 certificates in all — to class winners as well as the gold winners . |
| 28 | We talked for two hours and , ’ he threw out both hands in a gesture of surrender , ‘ at the end of it she , yes , wore me down . ’ |
| 29 | Serious competitors to the CPSU included : Democratic Russia , a group organized around radical deputies in the Russian Federation parliament ; Soyuz ( Union ) , a group based on a bloc of both communist and non-communist conservative deputies in the USSR Congress of People 's Deputies and the USSR Supreme Soviet ; Democratic Reform Movement ( DRM ) , established by Shevardnadze , Aleksander Yakovlev and other CPSU dissidents on July 1 , 1991 ; Democratic Party of Communists of Russia established in July 1991 , headed by Aleksander Rutskoi , the Vice-President of the Russian Federation , which split from the conservative Russian Communist Party ; Russian Communist Party established in April 1990 , in theory the RFSFR section of the CPSU but in practice a hardline outpost of organized opposition to Gorbachev and the radical forces . |
| 30 | She had washed and curled her silvery hair and left it long , brushing it so that it hung over one shoulder in a silky-pale swath , a style she never favoured . |