Example sentences of "[vb past] in [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will all be wined and dined in our private box . |
| 2 | As we demonstrated in our previous book , moreover , the wedding at Cana — which may in fact have been Jesus 's own wedding — was not a modest village affair , but a sumptuous ceremony of the gentry or aristocracy . |
| 3 | Her small white teeth drew in her upper lip as his hand stroked so erotically , his thumb tracing circles of white heat . |
| 4 | The floor was crowded with cardboard boxes that were filled with leaflets for the Literacy Project that Ellen helped in her spare time . |
| 5 | In 1914 , Mr J. F. Gairns of the Railway Magazine visited the Works which he described in its final form . |
| 6 | This had then led to the classical dogmas of the Trinity and the incarnation , which Harnack described in his great History of Dogma as ‘ the fruit of the Greek spirit on the ground of the gospel ’ , the product of the ‘ hellenisation of Christianity ’ . |
| 7 | I am reminded of the lesson I took in a school in Sylhet which I described in my first article and the way the understanding of the task helped the children to understand the English I was using . |
| 8 | He still encountered in his daily life a few who looked past the empty gaud that distracted lesser minds and longed for a revelation that would burn the tinsel away , an Apocalypse that would show the Fifth the glories it yearned for in its sleep . |
| 9 | Mill , unlike Paine , felt obliged , however , to meet the common bourgeois objection against universal male suffrage that the mass of the people were not fit to govern , and would use political power to " plunder the rich " , as Macaulay charged in his formidable attack on Mill 's Essay . |
| 10 | She was taking a risk , for Constance sometimes rejoiced in her gipsy blood and sometimes deplored it . |
| 11 | The words ‘ Rarefied atmosphere , yes ? ’ spoken in her own voice , returned to bother her . |
| 12 | Like a cat , Constance luxuriated in its sensual heat . |
| 13 | The following extract is taken from this last chapter , and elaborates on some of the problems we mentioned in our first chapter , ( pp 7–8 ) . |
| 14 | As I mentioned in my recent phone call the best site for it is the Mill Yard , as last year . |
| 15 | ‘ As I mentioned in my annual report statement , 1992 was a watershed year . |
| 16 | I mentioned in my last letter to Fiona that Lord Lovat had been badly wounded during an attack on the enemy positions on the evening of 12th June . |
| 17 | Surely there were many which went at a slow tempo , such as the first Beethoven Modlinger Dance I mentioned in my original article , the rapid-fire tattoos of its French horns ensuring a slow pace . |
| 18 | I mentioned in my original article that at its upper end the Minuet spills over into the very fast dance the Viennese called a ‘ Deutsche ’ or ‘ Teutch ’ ( Mozart : ‘ Teitsch ’ ) . |
| 19 | Leicester seemed out of it but remarkably seconds before the break Lee Philpott crossed from the left and found stand-in striker Steve Walsh who headed in his 7th goal in as many games since moving up front . |
| 20 | I promised in my five minute address last year that I would be a listener and I 've already listened to many of your views over the last twelve months and indeed today . |
| 21 | ‘ Have we leave to write down what you are all agreed upon ? ’ he shouted in his loudest voice . |
| 22 | Sharpe shouted in his best Sergeant 's voice , and the sight and sound of his anger was enough to make the elegant couples shrink away from him . |
| 23 | Each knelt in her partitioned alcove , commending heart and soul to God and praying that Satan , who wandered around like a lion seeking his prey , did not harm their bodies or souls that night . |
| 24 | It is clear that the latter found in her religious faith the strength necessary to undertake a public campaign on the taboo subjects of prostitution and venereal disease . |
| 25 | John and Elizabeth Newson found in their 1976 study Seven Years Old in the Home Environment , that two-thirds of their sample of Nottingham seven-year-olds fought sometimes or often with their siblings , and half of these ( girls as well as boys ) actually came to blows fairly regularly . |
| 26 | This basic defect , also found in his naturalistic study of spontaneous dialogue among kindergarten children , was called ‘ egocentrism ’ by Piaget . |
| 27 | I was also aware of certain information recently imparted to the Bank on the subject matter of the investigation of the defendants ( to which I referred in my first affidavit ) by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and , in addition , certain information which had been obtained by the Bank in the course of its previous supervision on the [ defendants ] . |
| 28 | The church and state broadcasts to which he referred in his next letter were noteworthy as containing one of his own , of which I thought highly . |
| 29 | His eyes were yellow ice , and a little pulse flickered in his hardened jaw . |
| 30 | He coined the Latin phrase , which the Queen used in her 40th anniversary speech at the Guildhall , in a letter to her expressing sympathy over the Windsor Castle fire . |