Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 2 | FoE 's local branch had paid £2,000 for a stretch of disused railway land , which it then sold on in square-metre plots to 1,700 supporters . |
| 3 | This led on in later generations to a widespread belief among orthodox Christians that the Bible should be looked upon as a compendium of truths directly revealed by God , inerrant and totally consistent in all its parts , and thus the supremely authoritative source of information not only on points of doctrine but on any other matters on which it might touch . |
| 4 | The commercial procedure of dégorgement crept in in gradual steps sometime in the latter part of the eighteenth century , or soon after , and might have been the producers ' response to an increasing number of complaints about their clouded wines . |
| 5 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 6 | Cuttings were made to ease the original gradients , causeways laid down in difficult places , and the roadway widened . |
| 7 | If the said Member of Parliament is not selected as the prospective parliamentary candidate at the special meeting referred to in paragraph ( b ) above to be the prospective parliamentary candidate , he or she shall have the right to appeal to the National Executive Committee on the grounds , and only on the grounds , that the procedure laid down in these rules and the general provision of the constitution and rules have not been properly carried out . |
| 8 | A certain amount of the Stuart expansion had been carried out by chartered companies , and the enemies of James II showed relatively little regard for the rights laid down in these charters . |
| 9 | The stricken suitor followed the tradition laid down in these matters and went to look for a fight . |
| 10 | payments should be 100% of loss up to a certain limit , and tapered down in varying proportions thereafter . |
| 11 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |
| 12 | No doubt he 'd enjoyed this association with young men , trousers and jackets endlessly tried on in curtained booths . |
| 13 | We completed it once with two groups of people , one starting from either end , with the ingenious plan to meet and exchange car keys half way along A marvellous scheme , except when we met , finished lunch and moved off in separate directions , we forgot the all-important handover . |
| 14 | His putts wandered off in all directions , so he did n't hole a lot . |
| 15 | It trembled on the cold stairs and rose up in invisible clouds from the thread-bare carpets . |
| 16 | After April 1988 , they will have to increase GMP built up in future years by 3 per cent a year , once it starts being paid . |
| 17 | Civil War conditions lingered on in other ways . |
| 18 | He had been following the narrow forest path downhill for some leagues , the trees soaring ever taller overhead , so that the sunlight came down in muted bars between the leaves . |
| 19 | These girls came down in special trains : it was n't just the odd few . |
| 20 | Shouldering their empty bait bags they jumped on their bikes and after a cheerful ‘ Watch out for mooring ropes , ’ from Yanto , they cycled off in opposite directions . |
| 21 | On that unhappy note she fell asleep , but the next time she awoke — to the clamouring of her alarm clock — she woke up in more ways than one . |
| 22 | At mid-morning , when the ground became hot and the air wafted up in varied densities , the refracted light produced mirages : the horizon flooded in every direction so that the edge of the ‘ dish ’ was lapping with water . |
| 23 | The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others . |
| 24 | Boon , meanwhile , joined his captain Border and coach Bob Simpson in completing 1000 runs in Tests against India : his 12th Test century ( fifth against India ) came up in 321 minutes ( 250 balls ) , with 13 fours . |
| 25 | These came up in some numbers right from the beginning to the end of this strip . |
| 26 | In the interviews themselves the topics sometimes came up in different sequences according to the way that the particular interview developed . |
| 27 | Her health suffered ; vagrant aches camped out in different parts of her body but she did n't dare go to a Spiderglass doctor . |
| 28 | In the good , old-fashioned days text was sent off to be typeset and came back in long strips called galleys . |
| 29 | Word came back in two days ' time that Sigarup was getting better . |
| 30 | They came out in great numbers to support us despite our poor early season form , and I 'm confident we 'll get it right against Dundalk on Sunday . ’ |