Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In vain did he protest to the shopkeeper that it was all a joke . |
| 2 | In vain did he protest that he was here on holiday and nothing else . |
| 3 | Tolkien 's idea of poetry mirrored his ideas on language ; in neither did he think sound should be divorced from sense . |
| 4 | I was gon na do look in that did you say you looked in that Argos book for darts did you , or ? |
| 5 | Yeah I know it 's well again , you know , kind of once you can see , once you can see what 's wrong with it rather than just sort of , you know , screwing it up and throwing it away , you know kind of if you can use that as a basis for , for , you know , kind of putting more of the stuff in that makes it look a bit more academic |
| 6 | Only in 1532 did he alight on the policy of the royal supremacy : the idea that the English monarchy had enjoyed an unlimited authority over the church within its realm for centuries and only now needed to start exercising this on a more regular basis . |
| 7 | First he sketched an arabesque design on the dress in white to make it appear décolleté , then he covered her dress with magnificent , multi-coloured flowers and finally sprayed his design with fixative . |
| 8 | And for the workers there was an actual decline in real wages during the FFYP , and only in 1940 did they recover their 1928 level . |
| 9 | He held his last press conference in 1955 , but no more than in 1946 did he resign himself to a permanent retirement . |
| 10 | Only in 1978 did it become apparent that both effects are necessary , but also sufficient , to produce the observed phenomena . |
| 11 | Will he get any feeling back in those do you think ? |
| 12 | Only in 1817 do we encounter them again , in a list headed ‘ Our Paupers ’ , when first Ann ( '70 years old … |
| 13 | how many twenty sevens in nine do you mean ? |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the countryside reminded me of East Anglia , the willows in particular making me realise how far I was from home . |
| 15 | And how in particular do we get them by communication ? |
| 16 | But we called them in Welsh do you see . |
| 17 | Well , if you consider that one in a hundred people in Britain means over half a million people , you are talking of a large group of people , who must have something in common to make them buy your product . |
| 18 | Only in Split in 1990 did I start out too quickly and felt bad at the half-marathon stage . |