Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a fair distance , and without being able to see them clearly in the encroaching dusk , they seemed a friendly lot and we yelled back . |
| 2 | I was surprised to see them up in the tall grasses , instead of moving along the exposed bank , but I realised that the rising river level had forced them up . |
| 3 | ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather . |
| 4 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
| 5 | ‘ A lot of the simpler souls ’ , said Quigley , ‘ probably think a great big snake is going to slither out at them and start gobbling them up in a few years . ’ |
| 6 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the Whips pursued the government in the hope of catching them out in a snap vote ; at the least this would disrupt their progress and there seemed an outside chance that the government would tire of the interminable pressure and throw in the sponge . |
| 8 | We never got them out in the first place . |
| 9 | The secret is to use them to create a striking feature , and not just hide them away in a shady corner of the garden . |
| 10 | The last two goals are the most important , and we shall consider them further in the following sections . |
| 11 | SIR — After watching the England soccer team 's drab display in Prague , I am tempted to say that if the FA send them out in a nondescript kit , their performance will mirror their appearance . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's really what drew me here in the first place , ’ he said quietly . |
| 13 | ‘ Expect me back in a few minutes , ’ she heard him say distantly . |
| 14 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 15 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 16 | I was sure that his status as head of the herd helped me out in an unpleasant encounter . |
| 17 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 18 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 19 | Not so , says Mr Crust : ‘ Even in this environment , if your house is alight you want a fireman there and you want him there in a reasonable length of time . ’ |
| 20 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
| 21 | If she was n't , he slipped into her mind , the memory of her response to him both torment and humiliation , and dislodging him once he entered her thoughts proved far more difficult than keeping him out in the first place . |
| 22 | The miniature St Christopher on it had a brief treat before Sorrel cooled him off in no uncertain terms . |
| 23 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 24 | He left a Will which places him firmly in the central Anglican tradition : |
| 25 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 26 | Remarkably it 's Derry fourth successive appearance in the final — they 've won it twice in the last three years . |
| 27 | You might need it later in the same flight ; if it is n't there , you ca n't use it . |
| 28 | In three respects at least D. H. Lawrence 's attitude to homosexuality was typical : first , he seems to have been able to accept it only in an idealized and spiritual form ; as Paul Delany puts it , he wanted not a lover but a spiritual brother . |
| 29 | They always , they always lag as you know , our , our , we always underspend capital in the first half against what our division think they 're gon na do and they always think they 're gon na catch it up in the second half , they never do but erm , it wo n't be , you know , it wo n't be materially different . |
| 30 | There is no failure because you have to work it through in a new way at forty or fifty . ’ |