Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] in the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 2 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 3 | Dicey 's approach , nevertheless , lived on in the minds of lawyers . |
| 4 | I am unaware of any allegations of malpractice at the prison I visited , but it has often been claimed elsewhere that frauds are common among both staff and prisoners responsible for storing , weighing and distributing food , and that the actual consumption per prisoner can be up to 20 per cent below that laid down in the regulations . |
| 5 | The formulae employed to calculate their annual payments produced figures no higher than the rents laid down in the charters , but as we have already seen , and as Alexander Gerschenkron stresses , the rents laid down in the charters were excessively high . |
| 6 | The formulae employed to calculate their annual payments produced figures no higher than the rents laid down in the charters , but as we have already seen , and as Alexander Gerschenkron stresses , the rents laid down in the charters were excessively high . |
| 7 | Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock . |
| 8 | To understand what it is to trump and to revoke should we attend to the use laid down in the rules of the game for trump cards , or should we attend to the characteristic feelings of trumping and revoking ? |
| 9 | Today every single living thing that has ever lived , from a bacterium to a plant or a fully formed animal , has been built according to specifications laid down in the molecules of the dna called chromosomes . |
| 10 | The Acts of Parliament , although applying to Scotland , use the English spelling , as do the various forms laid down in the Acts in connection with the representation at Westminster . |
| 11 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 12 | Unless extra resources and training are made available , the ESO procedure laid down in the Children Act 1989 may not herald a new emphasis on the causes of truancy . |
| 13 | Failure to observe the requirements laid down in the byelaws usually leads to a fine whether or not prejudice to health or a nuisance occurs . |
| 14 | Complex carbohydrates are best taken regularly throughout the day so that the glycogen is steadily replaced and built up in the muscles . |
| 15 | Huge backlogs of work built up in the securities dealers ' back offices as deals could not be completed within the exchange 's usual accounts periods . |
| 16 | Such initiatives petered out in the decades after the war ; indeed , it has only been since the mid 1980s that new attempts have been made , in Nell 's words , ‘ to regain the higher ground ’ , re-establishing the Underground as an influential patron of public art as well as improving the passenger environment . |
| 17 | A villager who had played in the open fields as a boy , or watched the sheep in the common pastures , would have lived to see the modern landscape of his parish completed and matured , the roads all made , the hedgerow trees full grown , and new farmhouses built out in the fields where none had ever been before . |
| 18 | Yet the total number of farmsteads built out in the fields between the villages is very small . |
| 19 | Eddie also got through in the singles with a 21–7 win over Eddie Price and Maureen Fearon , the Irish international bowler from Dungannon beat L. Hill 21–17 and then teamed up with Fra Brady to beat A and M Hoey in the mixed pairs . |
| 20 | A few lights came on in the villages . |
| 21 | Alexandra would find her by the fire in the drawing-room in the afternoons , the Pekinese guarding her against invisible dangers , then she came down in the mornings and needed letters written , wools held . |
| 22 | A series of extra security measures were introduced in Portadown following the blast , with a number of roads in the town sealed off in the evenings to stop the bombers getting through . |
| 23 | I sat down and watched them while the humans played up in the trees , swam in the pool and played games in the grass . |
| 24 | Erm , some specific points that came up in the comments that you made . |
| 25 | It always had the problem that , no matter what it dealt with , the copy came out in the blacks and greys of its newspaper format . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw Mick and Jerry two days before it came out in the papers and they seemed absolutely fine , ’ he says . |
| 27 | Other research suggested they might become concentrated , churned around in the waves and eventually deposited back along the beaches and banks of local estuaries . |
| 28 | It is a matter of recent history that the constant repetition of lies in Central Europe led to the tragedy which came about in the years 1939 to 1945 . ’ |
| 29 | She poked about in the brambles and wagged her tail . |
| 30 | Swathes opened up in the crowds on either side as they saw the brickbats coming . |