Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his marriage to Jane Crellin in the parish church of German , 8 March 1798 , he built in Colby a house for himself and his family ( six daughters and two sons ) , later called Ravenstone . |
| 2 | More recently , Oda et al reported in detail a technique for the harvesting and longterm culture of dog gall bladder epithelial cells . |
| 3 | It seemed in truth a time of indulgent expansion ; and , as if in retribution , students of all kinds , in universities old and new and in the polytechnics , became more and more resistant to authority , not just social authority , but the academic authority of their teachers and of the disciplines within which they were studying . |
| 4 | To his surprise he received in reply a note from her mother . |
| 5 | Intrigued , I wrote to the US Navy Department and received in reply a copy of Ensign Smith 's report on the operation . |
| 6 | Several years ago the Daily Mail considered the best way of dealing with a flasher on a golf course and received in reply a letter which ran : |
| 7 | The RPT national council on May 27 adopted in principle a proposal by Eyadema to separate the functions of head of state and head of the party . |
| 8 | It was a disagreeable story and coming as it did after the impact of the portrait it provoked in Dalgliesh a mixture of depression and foreboding which he tried to shake off as irrational . |
| 9 | But the follow up came in Ireland a month later and number three beckons this afternoon . |
| 10 | Gorbachev on Nov. 3 organized in Moscow a meeting between Moldavian President Mircha Snegur and Gagauz and Dnestr Russian community leaders . |
| 11 | In about 1813–14 he organized in Bermondsey a society of workmen which virtually constituted a Mechanics ' Institute , almost ten years before those established by Leonard Horner [ q.v. ] |
| 12 | Three years later , in 1621 , the king declared that he would himself undertake the drainage of the Fens for a recompense of 120,000 acres ; and in that year , there arrived in England a Dutchman who was destined to become one of the greatest architects of the English landscape . |
| 13 | The challenge to party feudalism , the appeal for dialogue , the spontaneity of the street-corner , the call for democracy , the linked hands and self-discipline of struggle , all began in Beijing a year ago , before Berlin , before Bucharest . |
| 14 | Bede perceived in Ceolwulf a love of religion and recommended him to Ecgberht , bishop of York , in 734 as a willing helper in the work of ecclesiastical reform and organization . |
| 15 | Viktor Chernomyrdin , a former chair of the state gas industry , was made Deputy Premier responsible for energy ( replacing Vladimir Lopukhin ) ; Georgy Khizha ( former Deputy Mayor of St Petersburg ) became Deputy Premier in charge of industry ( replacing Aleksandr Titkin who was named in a privatization scandal involving state-sector industry ) ; and Anatoly Chubais , chair of the State Committee on Property ( in charge of privatization ) , became in addition a Deputy Prime Minister . |
| 16 | One grandmother is remembered as taking ‘ a deep interest in all her grandchildren ’ , reading and talking , walking and painting with them ; and when her granddaughter became in turn a mother , it was her belief that |
| 17 | Reacting violently against his strict upbringing , and in particular the tutelage of an overbearing father , Mansel became in adulthood a man of fashion , a wit , and a rake , persistently extravagant in the teeth of parental injunctions to economy . |
| 18 | To the extent that this included Christianity , Constantine became in effect a saviour , redeeming the Christian congregations from centuries of imperial harassment . |
| 19 | He also recorded in Lewis a home-remedy which used the roots of nettles boiled in water along with the roots of reeds , then fermented by the addition of yeast which ‘ they find beneficial for the cough ’ . |
| 20 | On 14 April 1979 Mr. Steed executed in California a power of attorney naming his mother , Mrs. Steed , as his attorney . |
| 21 | She died in childbirth a year later . |
| 22 | She died in hospital a week and a half later . |
| 23 | The girl died in hospital a week and a half later . |
| 24 | A MAN died in hospital a week after taken a knock on the head while playing football , a fatal accident inquiry heard yesterday . |
| 25 | As Rincewind stared in horror a courting couple , laughing at some private joke , walked straight through the apparition without appearing to notice it . |
| 26 | Although buildings such as Hurstmonceux had already marked a shift from the primarily military dwellings of the middle ages , the later sixteenth century saw in Sussex a flowering in great house-building which has never been equalled since . |
| 27 | Or to put it differently , he saw in nature a storehouse of artistic forms . |
| 28 | But the problem with Clairvaux was that although it lay in Poitou a Count of Anjou could claim to hold it . |
| 29 | Progressively reducing the twenty Mk 1 sets by half , and acquiring from regular service stock a fleet of Mk 1 first open coaches , Ward put in hand a programme of vehicle refurbishment involving re-upholstering , recarpeting and curtain replacement and the fitting of individual table lamps , with the aim of restoring a level of respectability to coaches which had seen better days . |
| 30 | Canon , the Japanese office equipment and electrical suppliers , who put in £5million a year , want Mansell and Williams to get together again . |