Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The blue eyes studied her lazily in the mirror , and she had the strangest sensation he was toying with her as a cat would a mouse before a kill . |
| 4 | The other Rex hit him hard in the stomach . |
| 5 | Saturday finds you still in the throes of sorting out a financial/ professional issue and you wo n't be able to really relax until you 've cleared up all unfinished business . |
| 6 | In an entire lunch-hour , those same members may produce only half a dozen verbal transactions between them , yet a multitude of non-verbal signals binds them together in a group . |
| 7 | Ivy caught me alone in the passage to say how much I must miss Donald . |
| 8 | Then I drove my combat boot onto his temple as Marius hit him again in the mouth . |
| 9 | In that second , while Jinny was babbling on about Joe , the boy looked her straight in the eyes and spoke soundlessly , his lips shaping a single word . |
| 10 | It was , in fact , a much beamier vessel than the police ship , the hull fining up sharply towards bow and stern so that both fore and aft her deep , strong wedge-shape would cause the ice to squeeze her upwards in the event of her being caught in a series of pressure ridges . |
| 11 | I remember standing at the kitchen window watching them outside in the snow . |
| 12 | Alexander held them fast in a strong mailed fist . |
| 13 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 14 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 15 | He waited until the surface of the water in the bath became quite still , like a pool , like a swimming pool before the very first swimmer enters it early in the morning , and then with one quick move climbed in and lay right under the water with his eyes closed . |
| 16 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 17 | Robert looked him straight in the eyes . |
| 18 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 20 | Oliver coiled it slowly in the palm of his hand . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He imagined Helena coming to some trysting place on a summer night , to the Banks of Knamber perhaps , or like Lady Irene and Alastair Thornhill , to the ghost of a road , the Reeve 's Way , as it threaded through the Vale of Allen , and Tace meeting her there in the twilight . |
| 23 | But no doubt we can return to these matters if the honourable gentleman raises them further in the course of the debate . |
| 24 | All these qualities served him well in the kind of politics he preferred to practise — those of unobtrusive influence and persuasion . |
| 25 | ‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’ |
| 26 | When he first struck up a friendship with Joanna , he could never have suspected it would one day put him firmly in the frame in a potential murder investigation . |
| 27 | The midseason was disappointing , but by the end of July , in Holland and a fortnight later in Germany , Jackie had notched up his fourth and fifth victories of the season and a second place in Austria put him well in the lead . |
| 28 | McCarrick put them ahead in the eighth minute and they should have settled it in the 67th when Muir had a penalty saved , but Rimmer made no mistake from the spot to level the scores in the 83rd minute . |
| 29 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 30 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |