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Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] [adv] in the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The administrator 's greeting made everyone else in the room turn round to look .
2	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 .
3	The other Rex hit him hard in the stomach .
4	Ivy caught me alone in the passage to say how much I must miss Donald .
5	Frank raised himself laboriously in the bed , before subsiding weakly into the pillows .
6	Then I drove my combat boot onto his temple as Marius hit him again in the mouth .
7	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 .
8	As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon .
9	König had from student days interested himself deeply in the life and works of Rudolf Steiner ( 1861–1925 ) , the Austrian philosopher and founder of anthroposophy .
10	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 .
11	Robert looked him straight in the eyes .
12	Finally , Stamford put itself forward in the 1960s as one of the sites for the new generation of universities , citing the town 's ‘ university history ’ in support of its case .
13	Oliver coiled it slowly in the palm of his hand .
14	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 .
15	All these qualities served him well in the kind of politics he preferred to practise — those of unobtrusive influence and persuasion .
16	Sir Bysshe Shelley went one better in the 1790s when he commissioned a new house at Castle Goring .
17	‘ Adam brought you here in the first place , my lamb . ’
18	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 .
19	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 .
20	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 .
21	For Christians , it is a grave mistake to confuse God with our inner desires , even if God placed them there in the first place .
22	His fellow performers saw him only in the wings .
23	Melanie looked me squarely in the face .
24	In the same year , the tsar involved himself personally in the foundation of the reformist journal Military Miscellany .
25	Wilkerson looked me straight in the eye and said , ‘ You could kill me , Nicky .
26	Summoning her courage , Folly looked him squarely in the face .
27	Distillery made a bright start and Micky Boyle put them ahead in the early stages but Gregg beat keeper Robinson in a race for the ball to level the scores and soon afterwards put Omagh ahead with a right foot shot .
28	Dundela got it together in the second half and it was Dean Smyth 's turn to save his side .
29	‘ We need to talk , ’ Guy informed her calmly in the morning , across the white table on the terrace .
30	In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty .