Example sentences of "and [vb past] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late complications were of much greater concern and arose in eight patients ( 20% ) at a median of 3.3 months ( range 0.25–12 ) from the initial insertion . |
| 2 | The juveniles continued to fly south-west , and wintered in southern France and Spain . |
| 3 | Henry dialled the number of Charing Cross Hospital and asked in low tones for the poisons Unit . |
| 4 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
| 5 | Fifteen thousand men , women and children where ruthlessly evicted from their homes and Patrick Seller was well rewarded for his evil work : by 1819 , he rented no less than 75,000 acres of cleared land , and lived in grand style in a fine house at Syre — ruling dispossessed Clan Mackay with an iron , heartless hand . |
| 6 | They returned to live in rented accommodation , without support from the husband , and lived in straitened circumstances , relying on welfare payments and charitable support . |
| 7 | Animals were neglected and lived in appalling conditions . |
| 8 | He had long ago got the whole business of Ecalpemos under tight control and lived in high hopes of never having to refer to it again in word or thought — and then there had appeared this paragraph . |
| 9 | Boswell does not say which of them raised the question of biography , and somewhat out of context he leads into a comment from Johnson : ‘ Nobody can write the life of a man , but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him . ’ |
| 10 | Anyway , she got her way , and lived in fine style for a couple of weeks that heady summer of love and peace , etcetera . |
| 11 | They fled to Dublin or England or came out in very small numbers and lived in closeted fearfulness of exposure , job loss and increasing isolation . |
| 12 | Through this work she met and married a dashing test pilot who was the son of a wealthy Boston brain surgeon , had two children and lived in some style on Long Island where Jack spent many holiday breaks , lapping up the upper-class luxury . |
| 13 | So I went and lived in public libraries and all-night cafés for a time . |
| 14 | Only if they did not show their faces , only if they kept their heads low and lived in obscure corners , could they hope to pass at least in physical safety through life . |
| 15 | For example , De Jong and Humphrey ( 1976 ) found that the migrants tended to be younger , of a higher socioeconomic status and lived in smaller households , while Wardwell ( 1977 ) concluded that one major motive was a desire to live in smaller settlements and communities ; but rather surprisingly , Fliegel et al . |
| 16 | They belong to a charmed group known collectively as ‘ the lobby ’ and reviled in some quarters as the slavish lackeys of the Government . |
| 17 | Suddenly the flak awoke and got in fifteen seconds ' vicious pounding before giving up . |
| 18 | They 'd climbed down to rocky secluded coves and bathed in crystal-clear waters and picnicked in shady pine forests . |
| 19 | Having to choose between being ‘ poor in Oxford or comfortable in Aber. ’ , he chose Aberystwyth , where he worked on the university magazine , published his first poems and stories , and dabbled in left-wing politics . |
| 20 | Beads of sweat stuck out on his forehead and dripped in grimy trickles down his stubbly cheeks . |
| 21 | Oral communications , being face-to-face and immediate , are more limited than those in literate cultures , where meaning can be held and validated in impersonal ways . |
| 22 | There are certain areas of the body which can initiate movement patterns , if they are held and moved in certain ways , taking into account the effect of gravity on them . |
| 23 | ‘ Paula jumped into her car and drove to the house and moved in that day . |
| 24 | Eventually we found a house and moved in two days after Aaron started school . |
| 25 | She was the only child , you see — he 'd no son — and she married Mr. Carolan and moved in high society . |
| 26 | It 's just that erm the I S O version , as you quite rightly say , is sort of recognized and used in other countries . |
| 27 | Much of the development of industry in the north was on a very small scale and occurred in large villages or small towns often very close to the areas where coal was mined . |
| 28 | What ought to remain is a technique for learning , and a grasp of intellectual principles that may be applied and reapplied in different circumstances . |
| 29 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 30 | He turned towards Rex and approached in slow motion . |