Example sentences of "[vb pp] [vb pp] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In May at least 20 were reported drowned in a similar incident in heavy seas . |
| 2 | Cobras are constantly depicted entwined in a double helix . |
| 3 | This is a political idea and it is one which we have seen expressed in a contemporary form in Oakeshott 's idea of respublica . |
| 4 | Around her neck she put a thin early Victorian gold chain , on her right hand a fire opal she had recently had reset in a simple gold ring , on her left wrist the gold Baume & Mercier watch . |
| 5 | When TV Times readers voted Crawford 1973 's Funniest Man on TV in the magazine 's Top 10 Awards , it confirmed the phenomenal success that Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em had become in a short time . |
| 6 | Second , the arguments have become embroiled in a general deterioration in central-local government relations . |
| 7 | Businessmen in the North-East hope the latest campaign will stem the rising tide of youngsters who have become trapped in a sordid world of solvent abuse . |
| 8 | Father and son had become locked in a verbal jousting match which had ended with Tristram stamping out of the house and staying out all night . |
| 9 | The Victorian middle class seems to have become entangled in a good deal of bad faith of this kind by its attempts to imitate an aristocratic life which it did not fully understand . |
| 10 | The vegetation is determined by the climate and the nature of the soil , but also by time and chance ; for example , by what seeds happen to have become established in a particular place in the extreme past . |
| 11 | Sometimes , however , she could be found curled in a tight prickle-ball between the big yellow dog 's front paws . |
| 12 | At the tribunal of enquiry set up later , the police gave evidence that he had died of gunshot wounds and been found buried in a shallow grave . |
| 13 | In fact while we find duces in charge of groups of civitates , they also appear as leaders of royal armies , without any clear geographical base , and they were to be found engaged in a wide variety of other activites , including diplomatic missions . |
| 14 | Two beautiful examples of this sea urchin are illustrated preserved in a fine-grained limestone in full relief . |
| 15 | He might have looked comic if his proud , wrinkled face had not remained set in a devout and dignified expression as he went through what was clearly a considerable exertion to his failing strength . |
| 16 | For over a year she had been cutting out coupons from magazines and sending off for make-up samples that she had kept hidden in a small suitcase in the boathouse ; since her grandmother 's death she had brought them indoors and experimented openly , primping all day long , leaving streaks of grease everywhere , on the table cloth , on the bathroom shelves . |