Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pos pn] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sketchily covered breasts that had embarrassed her earlier in the evening were now taut and tingling , and when Tom 's hands came up to cup them through the thin fabric of her blouse she wanted to arch her back and drink in the new sensation with cries of pleasure . |
| 2 | Irritated by Viola 's habit of slipping into cliches from the West End plays of her youth every time feeling was called for , Greg said : ‘ You 'd seen her earlier in the evening , had n't you ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've turned her loose in the hotel boutique , ’ Roman murmured , ‘ so she wo n't want either of us for some time . ’ |
| 4 | After 1787 the graveyard was no longer used and the Jewish community buried its dead in the cemetery in the Žižkov quarter . |
| 5 | You 've got your own in the front . |
| 6 | In a 3000m race at Stellenbosch in February , the new-look Zola , now markedly more adult in build than in her ill-fated days as a British international , won with a world-class 8:42.26 — a time which would have ranked her third in the the world in 1990 . |
| 7 | But Mary had been touched by it as a girl and , as her goat herds had taken her high in the woods , she had often come across Kitty in the course of things . |
| 8 | Since enamelling was taken over by the west to produce jewels like that which tradition claims was presented to his foundation , New College , Oxford , by William of Wykeham early in the fourteenth century ( fig. 29 ) , enamel has held its own in the embellishment of symbols of high achievement . |