Example sentences of "and [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk stretched and sucked in the clear morning air . |
| 2 | He opened the note-book and filled in the date . |
| 3 | For my second slide I chose a bullet chart and filled in the appropriate data form . |
| 4 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 5 | Emily lifted her head and breathed in the sweet March air , it was good to stand in the garden of Summer Lodge looking out over a tranquil sea with timid waves reaching for the shore . |
| 6 | Cauterets claims to have a more plentiful supply of sulphurous waters than any other spa on earth , to the tune of a million and a half health-giving litres a day , and this is a claim you will not wish to dispute once you have pushed open the swing doors to the neo-Roman ‘ Baths of Caesar ’ and breathed in the warm and all too recognizably sulphur-laden air . |
| 7 | She rubbed her cheek against his chest and breathed in the clean male scent of him . |
| 8 | His conquests transformed the ancient world and ushered in the Hellenistic age of great monarchies . |