Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Daly moved briskly in all he did .
2 When peace came again in 1918 we followed up the production of reversible wool rugs with the making of chenille Axminster carpets .
3 But when her father , the widely respected leader of the Welsh radicals in Parliament , died suddenly in 1892 she found to her horror that he had left a crippling burden of debt and that his principal business enterprise , the Dillwyn spelter works at Llansamlet , Swansea , was on the verge of bankruptcy .
4 He says because my father died early in 1937 he 's never been honoured for his work .
5 Norwood is now a fairly grubby inner London area , but when Camille Pissarro lived there in 1870 it was the very edge of the city , combining townscape and country in a way that Pissarro found particularly attractive ( he lived and worked on the outskirts of Paris for most of his career ) .
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