Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | where coins disappeared in the lining ; |
| 2 | Eventually , we arrived at a small , damp valley , peat and heather-filled , where insects hummed in the still air . |
| 3 | Gainsharing is favoured in many US hospitals , where surveys highlighted in the RNC report show that managers and nurses feel PRP is a potential demotivator . |
| 4 | Where Amanda discovered in the world divine intent , benevolent order and rigorous justice , her father had seen only chaos , hazard and malice . |
| 5 | Some of the earlier references to the area have confirmed that this was near the site of the 17th century Kings Forge , where iron produced in the Kings Furnace , a mile away , was refined . |
| 6 | Where Leila groped in the dark , this man emanated light . |
| 7 | Despite her long exile , she remained deeply attached to the Episcopalian church , raising her children to love both the Bible and Savannah , where roses blossomed in the dead of winter . |
| 8 | Most of this capacity was in the Khuzestan area , where prospecting began in the early years of this century , culminating in the discovery in 1908 of the first of a cluster of oil-bearing structures identified in a northwest-southeast trend on a flank of the Zagros mountain range . |
| 9 | It just got too obvious that nobody bought the magazine so Moscow hauled in the chain . |
| 10 | He s doing better now than Speed did in the side when he first came in — Speed tended to be rather anonymous ( something Wilko actually said too ) , but he had the potential to ‘ have people leaving the ground saying ‘ That No. 11 was a good little player ’ ' , those were Wilkos very words . |
| 11 | These illustrations show slightly more freedom in architectural treatment than Scott used in the competition , as The Civil Engineer and Architects ' Journal said , although he adhered to the general principle of uniformity , |
| 12 | All of the eruptions except Krakatoa happened in the northern hemisphere , and together they show a clear pattern of behaviour . |
| 13 | Ticket sales for this year 's Ryedale Festival have got off to a record start with more than £16,000 netted in the first three weeks and some events are already sold out , says director Geoffrey Emmerson . |
| 14 | As she said that so dad arrived in the car with my mum , who is an absolute prude , and my auntie . |
| 15 | Like symbiotic grubs they lay twisted together in a ball , until Mangar-Kunjer-Kunja appeared in the guise of a lizard . |
| 16 | Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce . |
| 17 | Nora took the lead , determined to go right around so that she would be nearest to the line if Charley broke in the directions the Master had hoped . |
| 18 | It is as if Minton saw in the gun a portent of his own artistic impotence . |
| 19 | IF SURFING ROSE IN THE Eighties as the new British cool sport meets yuppie accessory lifestyle ( complete with accompanying surf jargon and fluorescent add-ons ) , then by 1992 the fad had got stupid . |
| 20 | He held out his hand and the Mason crushed it inside his own until tears stood in the boy 's eyes . |
| 21 | ‘ I believe , ’ Dame Agatha said in a hushed whisper as if eavesdroppers lurked in the very trees , ‘ that Lady Eleanor was preparing to flee Godstowe Priory . ’ |
| 22 | I felt I did n't need to see Moby unless matters deteriorated in the weeks after Jeanne contacted me . |
| 23 | While Madeleine snored in the bottom bunk Léonie fought to keep awake , to know the exact moment when , in the very centre of the Channel , precisely equidistant from both shores , the walls of water and of words met , embraced wetly and closely , became each other , composed of each other 's sounds . |
| 24 | Within Outer London , the experience of Bromley and of Newham are almost mirror images : Bromley did relatively badly in the first and third periods and well in the second , while Newham gained in the first and third periods , but had the smallest increase in the second . |
| 25 | The symptoms fade , moreover , whereas Pythagoras rejoiced in the peculiarity of a golden thigh until he died . |
| 26 | While Donna lay in the bathtub , inaccurately bawling the bits she could remember of My Fair Lady , Alex dialled Matthew 's number , only to find that he had switched on his answering machine . |
| 27 | Population redistribution trends in the 1970s were affected by both changing demographic and economic factors : Scotland and the Northern Region improved on their earlier poor out-migration losses , while in-migration surged in the less urbanized regions of southern Britain , such as East Anglia and the South-west . |
| 28 | The situation was almost the same at Exeter , but 48 per cent of the subsidy assessments were at £1 , mostly on wages , while in Coventry these were only a handful out of a total of some 700 taxpayers , meaning that almost half the population literally ‘ possessed absolutely nothing but the rags they stood up in , a few sticks and boards for ‘ furniture ’ , and the tools of their trade , if any' , Exeter clearly enjoyed full employment — as full , that is , as was attainable in the conditions of the time — while Coventry languished in the grip of severe unemployment , and indeed in the early 1520s was undergoing a series of acute economic crises . |
| 29 | However , while shoplifting occurred in the past , the extent of the crime has grown massively in recent years . |
| 30 | I apologised for slamming the car boot down upon it and commenting churlishly upon its perkiness and assumed that since ferns grew in the wild and my great aunt had had a whole conservatory of them , they were not difficult to rear . |