Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 2 | As a student I supplemented my grant by joining the Officer Training Corps , which not only brought me many good friends but also allowed me to participate in various outdoor activities such as abseiling , pot-holing , parachuting and canoeing . |
| 3 | It was the ICF who realised that looking casual allowed them to travel in large numbers and remain undetected by the police . |
| 4 | James Brown only owed Bance 8s 6d which , if he had paid earlier , he would not have found increased by 3s 6d costs which Judge William Furner ordered him to pay in monthly instalments of 4s on top of his debt . |
| 5 | Similarly , my stay in the guest house in Hyderabad , though somewhat less pleasant , enabled me to keep in close touch with the staff and students of the CIEFL . |
| 6 | Indeed so ‘ brilliant ’ was Mr Wyatt that his erstwhile inamorata once persuaded him to engage in carnal activity on board an aeroplane . |