Example sentences of "and [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thin figure leaned over and whispered in the sleeper 's ear . |
| 2 | Duncan looked at the long green grass and , as he looked , the wind blew strong and the tall , green grasses swayed and whispered in the wind . |
| 3 | She confirmed to McIllvanney that the weather-fax machine and the Loran and the Satnav and the radar and all the other things that hummed and winked and glowed in the night were working properly . |
| 4 | a fat woman … frightened and fainted in the street ; |
| 5 | Even liberals believed that the colonies would remain loyal if they received economic benefits and shared in the ideals of liberty , equality and fraternity , which France provided through her ‘ civilising mission ’ . |
| 6 | Dozens of foreign seamen in the port have been questioned and fingerprinted in the search for her killer . |
| 7 | When he was on business away from home he stayed and entertained in the Hiltons and Sheratons and InterContinentals . |
| 8 | I had taken the first step when an elderly man touched my shoulder and asked in the lilting , Spanish-accented French of the region , if I wished to view the church . |
| 9 | I arrived up in Camden Town and asked in the tube station for directions to the shelter . |
| 10 | And in the trees , clattering sadly , the armour of those who had dared , and failed in the combat . |
| 11 | The student will develop the skills and knowledge required to process client requirements for air travel sold in and ticketed in the UK for journeys both within the UK and originating from the UK ( SITI ) . |
| 12 | Jesus Christ is sacred myth historically located in time and incarnated in the material universe . |
| 13 | When Jesus began his public ministry he made his manifesto the prophecy of Isaiah 61:1–2 which he selected and read in the synagogue at Nazareth ( Luke 4:18 , 19 ) : |
| 14 | As a consequence , the very idea of politics became degraded and execrated in the minds of the citizens , as it seemed to them synonymous with lawlessness , mendacity and opportunism . ’ |
| 15 | The magnates saw themselves as the natural counsellors of the king , and argued in the Boulogne agreement and in the petition against the Despensers that they had a duty to act to protect the realm if the king was being led by unwise counsel . |
| 16 | They were under strong pressure , especially from parents , to enter children for the GCE , and frequently the reputation of a school turned on the numbers of candidates who were entered and passed in the O level examinations . |
| 17 | Eggs escape under the bursa of the male and are carried up the trachea in the excess mucus produced in response to infection : they are then swallowed and passed in the faeces . |
| 18 | Many larvae are coughed up and swallowed , and passed in the faeces and infection may occur by ingestion of these ; more commonly , transmission occurs when an infected bitch licks the pup and transfers the newly hatched L1 which are present in her sputum . |
| 19 | Messel remained a bachelor and lived in the works at Silvertown until he retired . |
| 20 | The Burtons let off part of the house and lived in the rest . |
| 21 | Ruth had written to her four times and lived in the hope that her aunt would get the minister to reply . |
| 22 | L-Cpl Lawrence Dickson , 26 , of the 1st Battalion The Royal Scots , was from Edinburgh and lived in the Inverness area with his German-born wife , Silke , and their daughter Roxanne , who will be two in July . |
| 23 | If he was born by then before then and lived in the village his name would be in the censors . |
| 24 | Further examples can be deduced in Rutland , notably the £46 credited to David Cecil at Tinwell , a small parish from which the abbot of Peterborough received £21 as lord ; Cecil was his bailiff and lived in the manor house . |
| 25 | ‘ Gone off and lived in the flowers like good little pixies ? ’ |
| 26 | Sophie was married to an eccentric Regular soldier , and lived in the east-end of the city , whilst Mary , being a child of school-age , was being brought up as a daughter . |
| 27 | He came to Stamford after the First World War and lived in the town during the 1920s at no. 20 St. George 's Square . |
| 28 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
| 29 | Horse brasses had been tacked along the length of the oaken lintel and gleamed in the firelight . |
| 30 | The reformed communists threw a pop concert in St John 's Lateran and the neo-fascists of the MSI rallied and hectored in the Piazza del Popolo . |