Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soften the cheese , then beat in the soured cream or fromage frais . |
| 2 | Cream remaining margarine and sugar together , beat in the whisked eggs , and stir in the flour with sufficient milk to make a soft , dropping consistency . |
| 3 | Gradually beat in the sifted icing sugar , adding a little at a time and mixing until well incorporated . |
| 4 | frank Connor , profiled in the Irish Times , relaxing at home with his wife Mary and his five-year-old daughter Kelly . |
| 5 | Because of what transpired in the latter part of 1989 , seldom has your insight been so penetrating and accurate , and between now and August is a time of unrivalled opportunities for you to make your mark . |
| 6 | The wonderful thing about the USPGA Tour 's year-ending statistics is that a quick perusal leaves you with a crystal- clear picture of what transpired in the previous year : Which players improved the most ; which were at the top of their games ; who won what and where , and when , and how . |
| 7 | Her smooth-soled court shoes glissaded in the glazed turf , and he stood solidly , large feet planted , and let her slide bodily against him . |
| 8 | has been undertaken and the result analysed in the full report , the summary of which is produced as a |
| 9 | The Law Reform ( Limitation of Actions ) Act 1954 for Scotland provided in the relevant section : |
| 10 | She shrivelled in the icy blast of his scorn . |
| 11 | A coherent school policy on Standard English can be based on the different views of the main aims of English teaching which I listed in the previous chapter. : |
| 12 | And as her body and limbs thrummed in the dizzy afterflow Fernando deepened his penetration , shuddering against her till she clung to him , grinding herself under him to give him the ultimate pleasure , to enhance every thrust he pounded into her , to draw him hard down into her power and her love . |
| 13 | Fearing an imminent clampdown , the Gagauzes brought forward the elections to Oct. 25 , when thousands demonstrated in the main Gagauz town of Komrat , defying the Moldavian authorities to intervene and calling on USSR authorities for assistance . |
| 14 | I demonstrated in the previous chapter that the use of discursive metaphor causes simultaneity and association to replace causality and linear chronology as the compositional principles of the novel , allowing changes of scene in mid-sentence and the coexistence of a number of often incompatible signifieds in a given signifier . |
| 15 | Grasshoppers churred in the long grass . |
| 16 | He gave in that connection some instances from The Rock , which he described not so much as a play as a revue , a word he pronounced in the French manner . |
| 17 | Kenny then excelled in the higher sphere and helped the Palace to gain the 2nd Division championship with the club 's best-ever defensive record , and to reach the top of the Football League in September 1979 . |
| 18 | Einstein has traced in his work the conservative influences of Ingegneri , a melodious master of Palestrinian polyphony , and Andrea Gabrieli , who excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and villanella , the Venetian gregesche and giustiniane . |
| 19 | Morley excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and kindred forms ; the supreme masters of the English school were Weelkes , who published his first book in 1597 , and John Wilbye ( 1574–1638 ) who began the following year . |
| 20 | Goal shooter Jane Shipley excelled in the windy conditions . |
| 21 | Shorthorns and Highlands also helped in the nineteenth-century improvements , and today the Salers is often crossed with the Charolais . |
| 22 | It helped in the early days , ’ she says . |
| 23 | In this capacity , he also established ties with the Government of Mozambique , and helped in the gradual process by which relations between Mozambique and the EEC were put on a more constructive basis . |
| 24 | We kept guard against the security forces and helped in the communal kitchen which was set up for the support committee . |
| 25 | Whelan is one of 700 entered in the annual ordeal , which offers just 40 cards for next year 's £25 million circuit . |
| 26 | More recently he has produced a series of pieces decorated with routed fluting , such as the box he entered in the national box competition and a citrus fruit squeezer with a range of ribbed heads . |
| 27 | Like Eliot , Dawson emphasized the ‘ two Englands ’ created in the nineteenth century — ‘ the England of the fields and the England of the factories ’ — and wished to build on a common ‘ English tradition ’ which with some sort of religious sanction would take people Beyond Politics . |
| 28 | Notice that this paragraph is not only held together by the sort of unity , or development of ideas , that we described in the Great Gatsby example above . |
| 29 | In this small group of tales he first described in the third person how a murder had happened and then in the voice of his " Watson " narrated the activities of his sleuth , Dr Thorndyke , the scientist , in bringing the murderer to book . |
| 30 | Like did er er people begin to be asked to do different jobs whereas you described in the older days , you were very much sort of , pinned to one machine if you like ? |