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

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1 She guessed Ben lived mostly in the kitchen , cooking neatly and painstakingly for himself .
2 So then I went to the bank and asked politely in the name of the Mamur Zapt if I could check Andrus 's account .
3 Some guy took his er bonuses after two years recently and I think he got somewhere in the region of six thousand pound .
4 Perhaps for this reason Britain experienced little in the way of a fascist movement in the 1920s ; only a few small and insignificant fascist groups , hostile to the Bolsheviks or the Jews , emerged at that time .
5 Unlike the Victoria Press , the Caledonian produced little in the way of books .
6 The table was enormous and gleamed redly in the candlelight .
7 On the upper deck outside the half-dozen first-class cabins , green-and-white-striped awnings fluttered gently in the breeze of the ship 's movement , and in their shade Senator Nathaniel Sherman sprawled at ease in a canvas deck chair , his long legs splayed comfortably in front of him .
8 Above the nearest serving counter a huge banner portrait of the ch'a god , Lu Yu , fluttered gently in the breeze of the overhead fans .
9 Some such unfortunates ultimately abandoned the East Indiamen for a place in the pilot service in India , after they had acquired sufficient influence with important passengers to secure such an appointment , while others might take a place as an officer of one of the so-called country ships , which operated only in the East and did not return to Europe .
10 Some of the statutes are essentially 19th century in orientation , the most notable being the Factors Act 1889 ( FA ) and the Sale of Goods Act 1979 ( SGA ) which consolidates the original Act of 1893 with the subsequent amendments made especially in the Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 ( SOGIT ) .
11 It works by boosting the supply of serotonin a chemical produced naturally in the brain .
12 For example , in feudal society products were not ‘ of themselves ’ the property of the ruling class , but became so in the light of various political practices .
13 The plaintiffs gathered information as to the results of horse races from various courses and transmitted that information to subscribers on terms that it should be used only in the newspaper or posted only in the club , newsroom , office or other place to which it was delivered .
14 The men lived together in a compound or — to use their term — a cage .
15 The couple lived together in the village of Bramsford , about five miles from Worcester .
16 Er he was from Gedling but we lived together in the army barracks at that particular time .
17 Jews and Arabs lived together in the street , speaking each other 's language with some fluency , and it was an Israeli Jew who first pointed to the white house .
18 The less fortunate among them , like Nicholson and Robert Towne , Charles Eastman , the writers , and Monte Hellman , the director , got together in a play group and literally built their own theatre , stealing timber from building sites for their scenery ; they ripped a toilet from a petrol station and lighting and electronics were similarly acquired .
19 The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people .
20 The 1990 Dinner was held on Saturday 22 September when 28 people got together in the Reception bar of the Private Dining Room suite in University House before proceeding to enjoy an excellent meal in the pleasant setting of PDR4 .
21 recite and read aloud in a variety of contexts , with increasing fluency and awareness of audience ;
22 That rule prohibits solicitors practising in partnership or " in association " ( where two or more firms have at least one common principal ) from representing : ( 1 ) both seller and buyer in a transfer of land for value at arm 's length ; or ( 2 ) both lessor and lessee on the grant of a lease for value at arm 's length ; or ( 3 ) both lender and borrower in a private mortgage at arm 's length with exceptions made only in the case of : ( 1 ) small transactions ; ( 2 ) where the parties are connected with each other ( commercially or personally ) ; ( 3 ) where there is no other solicitor or licensed conveyancer in the vicinity whom either party might reasonably instruct ; ( 4 ) where two associated firms or two offices of the same firm acting for the parties are in different locations , neither firm having received instructions to act on referral from the other and the matter is dealt with or supervised by a different solicitor at each firm or office and , where the solicitor is not involved in the negotiations , where no conflict of interest arises and where neither vendor nor lessor is a builder or developer .
23 He lived only in the present , caring nothing for the past or the future .
24 They clung together in the waiting room outside Sarah 's office and Maureen told her what Tony had said .
25 Firstly , we were able to pinpoint a particular problem that arose only in the context of a complete system .
26 They lived deeper in the country , some twenty miles away .
27 Selma snored gently in the weight of her sleep .
28 They met daily in the half-light , at three o'clock in the morning , just before milking .
29 Sediment accumulation rates decreased in the north ( 58.024.5gm -2 yr -1 ) and central basins ( 44.416.6gm -2 yr -1 ) , but changed little in the south basin ( 41.715.1gm -2 yr -1 ) .
30 He decided that he was never likely to do even as well as they and that he had better look for another career , which eventually he found successfully in the world of travel .
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