Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 1,200 motorists were also stopped for speeding in the crackdown . |
| 2 | Nathalie Ions and Clare Jefferson , aged seven and eight , both live on Blue Hall estate , which is included for revamping in the City Challenge bid . |
| 3 | Hearts were fluttering when Mark Glendinning put Bangor ahead early in the game , but Apoel Nicosia hit back and Eachus again was partially blamed for letting in the Cypriot team 's winner . |
| 4 | An early decree ordered the destruction of heathen temples ; and the pressure of Westernisation was so relentless and meticulous that at one stage male Christians could be fined for urinating in the oriental , crouched position . |
| 5 | Unless prepared to make an excursion , you would be trapped into eating in the hotel . |
| 6 | They also remarked with astonishment a sort of combat between God and her without being able to determine whether God was more occupied in seeking in the secrets of his wisdom the means of exercising her by suffering than she was disposed to suffer for his love ; for she showed an incredible avidity for crosses and an invincible patience over her trials and over every affliction which Almighty God sent to exercise her love and fidelity . |
| 7 | But she rose and walked over to the table , moving stiffly because of muscles chilled from sitting in the stone window embrasure for so long . |
| 8 | The teacher is persuaded into conformity , submits to authority and is effectively discouraged from engaging in the process of pragmatic mediation which , I argue , defines the very profession of pedagogy . |
| 9 | It was considered too onerous for a man to serve both as coroner and verderer , and verderers were often excused from serving in the former office . |
| 10 | The United States was , at last , firmly committed to helping in the maintenance of the stability of the Middle East , though British commitments to the Arab sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf and the Aden Protectorates were undiminished . |
| 11 | We had a little chat with Unix System Labs president Roel Pieper last week and he did n't exactly rule out the possibility of USL making a takeover move on Santa Cruz Operation Inc ( UX No 396 ) : however , he said , it would n't be a good business value unless both firms were committed to going in the same direction . |
| 12 | In fact , the individual migrants who participate in this urban migration manage to generate income which is more attractive to them than the income they would have earned by remaining in the rural areas . |
| 13 | In 1435–9 he is heard of lodging in the ‘ cornertowre ’ at a property in Penshurst , Kent . |
| 14 | Paddy got up to help and we both crawled about ferreting in the sand . |
| 15 | Barley is grown for malting in the manufacture of beer and whisky and for animal feed , particularly the fattening of pigs and intensively reared beef . |
| 16 | While an experienced teacher might start by working with the whole class , drawing the more reluctant children into the drama through the excitement of the drama itself , full of dramatic tension , rich in imagery , there 's much to be said for working in the classroom with small groups . |
| 17 | The report detailed widespread arrests , torture and mass extrajudicial killings of people suspected of participating in the uprising in northern and southern Iraq . |
| 18 | A man and woman who do not want to have a baby can still enjoy lovemaking if they make sure the egg and sperm never meet , or if the egg is prevented from settling in the womb . |
| 19 | The above mentioned insiders , that is , individuals connected with a company , individuals contemplating making a take-over , and tippee traders , are not only prevented from dealing in the relevant securities , but are also subject to two further constraints : first , counselling or procuring any other person to deal ; and secondly , communicating inside information to any other person . |
| 20 | She complained of being prevented from helping in the house — ‘ You 'll tire yourself out ’ — or from going out in cold weather , and above all , of not being taken seriously . |
| 21 | As the blood tries to flow backwards , the pockets fill up , closing the valves so that blood is prevented from flowing in the wrong direction . |
| 22 | Until at last there was only one Callanish eagle left , a juvenile whom the others had sought to protect and so had prevented from joining in the fighting even though she had wanted to . |
| 23 | Buckby wrote to every head teacher in Cleveland last year seeking support after Langbaurgh runner Adam Mead , the county champion , was prevented from running in the English Schools because the departure date of a school skiing trip was brought forward 24 hours . |
| 24 | At least outside the hard sciences , words which are closely related in meaning in the context of a subject search are often morphologically and etymologically unrelated ( " alcoholism " and " drunkenness " , " communism " and " marxism " ) . |
| 25 | The film stars the actress , Alison Steadman , and shows the conditions for animals kept in fur farms , their slaughter and their skinning as well as the pain suffered in trapping in the wild . |
| 26 | In time of war , persons for the time being residing or doing business in an enemy country , whatever their nationality or domicile , are disabled from suing in the English Courts ; but , if sued here , they will so far as possible be given an opportunity of defending themselves . |
| 27 | It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman . |
| 28 | What about other people who has anyone on the basis of individuals that have come in here , do many individuals come in and actually have problems related to living in the flats ? |
| 29 | The aerosol droplets have to be just the right size : too big and they may get trapped in noses , too small and they tend to be exhaled without staying in the lungs . |
| 30 | Improved and expanded since opening in the early 70's the marina has matured into a real alternative to the South Coast . |