Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] in the [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 | ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather . |
| 3 | The last two goals are the most important , and we shall consider them further in the following sections . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He left a Will which places him firmly in the central Anglican tradition : |
| 7 | The victim-to-be purchases , or is given , the W.N.B. and places it unsuspectingly in the top pocket of his or her jacket , with the humorous head protruding . |
| 8 | Turning first to the stroke , Mozart used it deliberately in the following three ways : ( 1 ) to indicate an accent without a staccato ; ( 1 ) to indicate a staccato with special emphasis of either accent or sharpness , ranging from hail to heavy rain ; ( 3 ) to mark a staccato , usually without special emphasis , that serves to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes . |
| 9 | They impress me less in the beautiful central Andante in C minor : it needs expressive playing which should be poignant without overstepping the bounds of musical propriety that Mozart set himself , and here it sounds merely pleasing . |
| 10 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 11 | We would search for the defined pieces and then put them together in the proper order as suggested in the drawing . |
| 12 | " Then I will hope to have the pleasure of meeting you again in the ancient city of the Annamese emperors , " said the governor , smiling again . |
| 13 | Now a widow , Mabel has made her home in the compact whitewashed building , tucked in one of Whitby 's historic yards . |
| 14 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 15 | His climbing achievements are many , but it is his attempts on Everest which have lodged him firmly in the public consciousness . |
| 16 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 17 | ‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent . |
| 18 | I look her straight in the naked eye . |
| 19 | ‘ We must run it safely in the short term and long term , ’ he said , ‘ because if people are able to demonstrate that we are causing an environment problem we will be shut down . ’ |
| 20 | You can see this in the adventure novels of Alastair Maclean ; you can see it equally in the intellectual novels of Iris Murdoch . |
| 21 | that the choice lay between power , which had served us since the days of Clive , and influence which , if we could use it aright in the changed conditions of the twentieth century , would serve us better . |
| 22 | It looked as though the Americans were going to sweep us aside in the early part of the afternoon at one point we had lost the match and were down in eight and up in only one . |
| 23 | She would drive to the nursery in the spring and pick up boxes of spring flowers , pansies , violets , crocuses , iris , lilies of the valley , daffodils , and jonquil , and set them lovingly in the damp sweet-sour earth . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll see you at the office on Monday morning , ’ Damian told her as he walked her home in the hot , humid night to her own villa next door and cicadas buzzed metallically as they walked past the fountain . |
| 25 | His honest , square-jawed and faintly familiar face served him well in the real estate business . |
| 26 | Pound , following a polemical strategy which served him well in the short run ( but which later back-fired ) deliberately provoked the academic classicists of his day ; and his use of his sources , classical and other , was always both hasty and high-handed . |
| 27 | Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child . |
| 28 | John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink . |
| 29 | In the second stanza we find him still in the classical world , though this time it is the Greek rather than the Italian , and it begins by being the Greek seen not through the eyes of Frazer , but through the eyes of Keats . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm setting a deadline to open the course in spring 1994 , but if we can have it open in the late summer of 93 that would be ideal , ’ he said . |