Example sentences of "[vb past] in [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Up and down the country mini-celebrations occurred in what the official guide called in that unmistakeable paternalistic tone of the period , ‘ spontaneous expressions of citizenship ’ . |
2 | However , no sooner had they built such a machine than they recognised in it the inherent dangers of a heartless device capable of original thought . |
3 | Young wheat especially , so pure and tender , woke in him the same emotion that he had when observing the face of a sleeping baby . |
4 | I will tell you my secret belief : that for Gustave , in a way he only half-apprehended , I represented life , and that his rejection of me was the more violent because it provoked in him the deepest shame . |
5 | The other prong of the attack was the political lobbying and the use of such institutions and fora as were open to the group , though few state-sponsored fora existed in which the long-term concerns of the DUC could be articulated . |
6 | And if Jesus incorporated in himself the double role of royal and priestly Messiah , he would indeed have been a figure worthy of such adherence . |
7 | I looked in my the other day and I thought I thought now I have n't got it now . |
8 | In the event , not one of these possibilities for the immediate future materialized and a period of balance emerged in which the three principal southumbrian kingdoms — Kent , Wessex and Mercia — existed in a state of political equilibrium and the stability of Kent and Wessex was in striking contrast to the volatility of the recent past . |
9 | About 350 million years ago , some appeared in which the sexual generation no longer grew flat on the ground , but up in the crowns of the trees . |
10 | He also had in him the wrathful patriarch of the Protestant religion , for he was the product of the two warring faiths , of an Irish Catholic mother and an Irish Presbyterian father , and of the Sunday ritual my mother would repeatedly describe as if narrating the auspicious early life of a saint . |
11 | As a result , the journal came under Crookes ' complete control , and in 1870 he published in it the first of a series of four papers on spiritualism . |