Example sentences of "[vb past] in [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Betty talked about the rain of the previous days the builder spoke briefly of water tables ; as she deplored the unemployment in the principality he gave a succinct resumé of the economic situation ; as , somewhat at a loss , she praised the sun for now shining , Emyr described in a few words how it would eventually burn itself out . |
| 2 | Although it is conceded that a ‘ decline ’ occurred in a few trades , reformers are said to have been confused by terminology and to have failed to distinguish between ‘ deskilling of individual jobs and industrial changes which led to the number of jobs in certain industries or occupations declining either relatively or absolutely , but not to the nature of the job themselves changing ’ . |
| 3 | One of the most important of these ‘ eruptions ’ occurred in the latter decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the present century when the fabulous wealth of plants in the Chinese hinterland was made known to the West by French missionaries and British and European hunters . |
| 4 | The reply came in a few minutes ago listing ten different countries with which he does business . ’ |
| 5 | Jock Lewes came in a few days later with a different tale to tell . |
| 6 | A new chairman came in a few months ago . |
| 7 | Jonquil came in every few days . |
| 8 | It all happened in a few seconds . |
| 9 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 10 | She phoned for a taxi which arrived in a few minutes . |
| 11 | He returned in a few minutes with a very wet and chastened Liam and the cortege was complete . |
| 12 | Shivering , she brushed a few drops of rain from her face , glad when Rune returned in a few minutes in the promised taxi . |
| 13 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 14 | This perhaps was a feature of the Forest of Dean , where four holdings out of five could have been occupied by their owners ( who lived in the same townships ) and many belonged to men worth less than £2 . |
| 15 | One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care , but recovered in a few days . |
| 16 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 17 | Despite focusing on some rather special examples where creativity and psychosis co-existed in the same individuals , our analysis will inevitably lead us to consider whether in these particular persons their tendency to madness and their capacity for unusual originality of thought were indeed , in some fundamental sense , intimately connected . |
| 18 | A third balloon inflation and deflation resulted in the same events . |
| 19 | When the author of The Three Midshipmen reflected that his three heroes , supposed to be his former schoolfellows at ‘ dear old Eagle House ’ , had in a few years ‘ crossed swords with real red-capped or turbaned Mohammedans , fought with true Greek romantic pirates , hunted down slavers , and explored African rivers with voracious sharks watching their mouths , hungry crocodiles basking in their slimy shallows , and veritable negroes inhabiting their banks ’ , this rhodomontade , appealing to the eager youth of the mid-Victorian period , was entirely justified . |
| 20 | Not bad for the first day , she thought with a sense of satisfaction as she washed her hands and tucked in a few strands of escaping hair . |
| 21 | In the new 37-member Cabinet 15 ministries , including most of the key ones , remained in the same hands as before . |
| 22 | Whereas restorers in the past speculated on some of the missing elements and snapped in a few flowers here and there , we take the view that if it 's missing when we took the carving down then it will stay missing when we put it back up again . |