Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 As part of the Milanese conspiracy to defy the decrees , a messenger tried unsuccessfully to assassinate Barbarossa in his camp at Lodi in June of 1159 .
2 Management moved immediately to recruit workers in almost every department of the factory .
3 She also tried hard to revive interest in Idomeneo , thus proving that she was no musical ignoramus .
4 There is agreement , certainly in the mental health field ( Huxley , 1991a ) that case management works best when its purpose is clearly articulated in the form of service goals ; the outcome measures used actually assess progress in these target areas ; the theoretical model and content of the programme are consistent with the service goals ; and case management is focused on a narrowly defined target group of those most in need .
5 ‘ Excuse me , I 'd better bring Harrison in , ’ he said .
6 I do n't think , you 'd better have cards in front of you .
7 ‘ We 'd better call Larry in and get away from here , quick , ’ she heard Butch say .
8 And their odd jobs , they 'd probably got men in their own factory to do it , but no they sent them to Dick and I er used to oblige .
9 The first 20 moves were theory , Yusupov played well to force repetition in an endgame where Timman had bishop and knight against rook and pawn .
10 Mathilde 's brother , Prince Napoleon Jerome , better known perhaps under his nickname of ‘ Plon-Plon ’ , was to prove even more of a burden to his cousin , for his activities were political , to such a degree that he seemed frequently to take pleasure in publicly opposing Louis-Napoleon 's policies .
11 Or perhaps he 'd simply lost interest in the diversions of aesthetes .
12 The pre-exposed and control groups received continuously reinforced conditioning in the second stage ; pre-exposed subjects experienced non-reinforced presentations of the light in stage one .
13 I 'd never seen Paula in , in glasses , ever , other than in photographs
14 so I 'd never had blokes in my class , it was really really weird
15 I mean , er FIMBRA can do its regulatory bit , the same as the police can regulate or the , or the government can regulate , but only within certain er parameters , and if somebody really wants to cheat , then they will cheat anyway and er we 've go we 're in a very sophisticated position where the directors of B C C I were able to move money from one continent to another and it meant er it looked as if you 'd actually got money in three separate areas , but in fact there was only one lot and it was being moved rapidly .
16 Japan 's post-1868 rulers utilized this nationalistic focus and claimed throughout to exercise power in the name of the emperor .
17 People who claimed that they generally did not dream , when woken from REM sleep , did in fact report dreams , but they were particularly prone to forgetting them — if woken after the REM period was over , they recalled even fewer instances of dreaming than those who claimed regularly to recall dreams in the morning.6 In another study generally confirming these findings it was also noticed that " non-dreamers " tended to report that they were awake and thinking when woken from REM sleep .
18 He once arranged unofficially to take part in a raid from his station at Hemswell in Lincolnshire in a Hampden of No 61 Squadron .
19 Ochirbat had originally been scheduled to pay a six-day visit , but he returned early to take part in the critical discussions with opposition leaders on Mongolia 's future political system .
20 Kevin raised both clasped hands in a salute to acknowledge luke-warm cheers ; Trace lifted her whip .
21 Gwen Jones , who started here banking career in Abersoch has become the first woman in Oxfordshire to manage a National Westminster Bank branch .
22 Stephen Bound officially joined Sekers in November after seven months as a trainee on the Government sponsored Job Training Scheme .
23 He favoured elaborately tied cravats in white cambric , but these were too difficult for the middle-class man of Victorian times to be bothered with .
24 ‘ I think it is fair to say ’ , mused Abrams , that everyone involved in the RIG ( the Restricted Inter-agency Group that met regularly to discuss policy in Latin America ) knew that Ollie was somehow connected with this but did n't know why …
25 As independence approached , all the Namibian students on these courses went home to take part in the election process .
26 Women gave up their jobs in droves and went home to have children in hordes .
27 She radiated tension and embarrassment , so that after the meal Clare went immediately to watch TV in the sitting room , Sue took the children to bed and Bryony went out to a meeting .
28 Jamie Marston , the youngest competitor , struggled hard to make headway in a leaking canoe borrowed from the host club while Peter Weeks showed much greater confidence than a year ago when he was the youngest sailor .
29 Berlin was a particular centre of discontent because of the large number of young men who went there to escape conscription in West Germany itself .
30 It can be seen that data were collected at referral for all those who agreed initially to take part in the project .
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