Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 2 | Meanwhile , RUC 's bid to capture one of the few trophies to have eluded them in junior soccer got off to a much more convincing start as they trounced Harland and Wolff Welders in the first round of the cup competition . |
| 3 | I 've not seen them in local garden centres , where can I obtain some ? |
| 4 | She could hear Penry 's heart pounding against hers , as her kisses matched his in utter frenzy . |
| 5 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 6 | ‘ Listen here , Miss Smart-Alec , you have n't seen him in full flight ! |
| 7 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
| 8 | Burton did the job on screen as efficiently , one felt , as he would have done it in real life . |
| 9 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
| 10 | At other times they would collect along the river bank and the younger Martyn was to write many years later of Crocus vernus , ‘ I remember , when a boy , to have seen it in considerable quantity in Battersea meadow , near the mill ’ . |
| 11 | At first , Lucien had watched them in awed fascination , hardly daring to practise any movements himself for fear of ridicule . |
| 12 | Wharton , right , says his new hobby , golf , has got him in par-fect shape to slug O'Toole — now known as Fidel Castro — and grab title glory at Elland Road later this month . |
| 13 | And as he held his finger to his lips , she remembered that he had told her in strict confidence that the complex belonged to him . |
| 14 | The system has found itself in dire need of a new way of legitimating itself , and this need has given rise to a variety of responses . |
| 15 | In other words , CBT has not yet proved itself in conceptual training where , perhaps , knowledge-based systems and artificial intelligence may need to be deployed . |
| 16 | I 've just bathed her in cold water to get the temperature down cos she 's . |
| 17 | Many soon found themselves in long-term debt to richer peasants , particularly in the Famine areas . |
| 18 | Wise Speke analyst John Dean , says : ‘ Whessoe and Varec have been known to one another for some considerable time although given their emphasis on different geographical markets they have rarely found themselves in direct competition . ’ |
| 19 | The , the interviewer the other day said that she was somebody stopped her in Sandy Row , at the bottom of Sandy Row , |
| 20 | Although his orders placed him in theoretical command of the Simonova 's mission , in practical terms he was a guest of the civil servants who operated the vessel . |
| 21 | Let us look now at some problems of this neo-fundamentalism as I have observed them in modern church life . |
| 22 | Some retailers use distinctive packaging for their own brands , eg one supermarket chain packaged everything in bright yellow . |
| 23 | He condemned postwar curtailment of civil liberties , and support for parliamentary reform involved him in metropolitan politics , but he disappointed Whigs and Radicals alike . |
| 24 | It had left me in White Face 's power . |
| 25 | Until then , Japanese drug firms ' poor R&D and their emphasis on selling imported drugs had left them in poor shape to compete internationally . |
| 26 | The person taking the goods must have taken them in good faith without notice of the agent 's lack of authority . |
| 27 | They look better They all used to be one colour before but we 've now extended the range and so they 've put them in different colour bottles . |
| 28 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 29 | She remembered how she had submerged herself in scented water every day and sometimes twice in the sticky summertime and never would again , until she grew up and had a bathroom of her own . |
| 30 | The morning 's adventure had apparently left him in hot water with the lady of the moment . |