Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] in [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also to , computer programmer , and wife , on the birth of their child who weighed in at 7lb 1½ oz on May 8 . |
| 2 | He also beat off attacks from Turkish forces who moved in from Bosnia in the west and Rumelia in the south-east . |
| 3 | ‘ In this same room I once helped a pretty young woman who came in with cut and bleeding feet , who gave birth to a boy and then died . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't feel sorry for that man who came in on drugs and dropped |
| 5 | The downsizing cost it Jim Katzman , the big-time venture capitalist who came in as president back in March to run the joint ( UX No 377 ) . |
| 6 | This leaves 19 Stinkers , including the dreaded Ann Widdecombe in Maidstone , and the unspeakable ‘ Terry ’ Dicks , who squeaked in at Hayes and Harlington by 53 votes on a massive 6.8 per cent swing against him . |
| 7 | This AE recalls a sales manager who tuned in to AEs ' telephone conversations , thereby gaining snippets of information about their private lives which he would not hesitate to use . |
| 8 | Clients who rang in during telephone bingo would be kept hanging on indefinitely . |
| 9 | New Kiwi centre signing Kevin ‘ The Beast ’ Iro , who flew in on Thursday , has been caged because of a damaged ankle which will keep him out of action for a fortnight . |
| 10 | It should have been just the incentive Ipswich needed to take control of the game but instead it was Newcastle who went in at half-time leading . |
| 11 | He could not abide those who went in for exhibitionism , considering such to be irreligious . |
| 12 | Turnip salad with capers is no shock today and raw choucroûte salad , an idea Pomiane had picked up in Moscow — buy very fresh choucroûte from the charcutier and stop at the village pump to wash it thoroughly , he told those of his French readers who went in for picnics on canoeing and automobile excursions — should be the joy of vegetarians . |
| 13 | Some of these types who went in for murder as a professional thing would probably take you to the cleaners as soon as look at you . |
| 14 | She was critical of what she called ‘ strong-minded women ’ , who went in for stridency and useless eccentricity , preferring the ‘ sound-minded women … who can take a journey by railway without an escort , who can stand by a friend through a surgical operation , and who yet wear ordinary bonnets and carry medium-sized umbrellas ’ . |
| 15 | The hotel bookshop went on displaying Archer and Sheldon and Forsyth , happily oblivious to the world-famous authors who flitted in from time to time to paw the paperbacks . |
| 16 | Eithne , an accomplished singer who stood in for Barbara Dickson in Blood Brothers at London 's Lyric Theatre , says she left the soap because there was no future development for her Mrs Rogers . |