Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.

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1 Yeah , I think he did er , Rumpole was put him in the big time really .
2 And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark .
3 Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round .
4 The effect of all such variations was to make it in the interests of publishers not to specialize in one type of paper but , as they did increasingly over the post-war decades , to spread their interests across morning , evening and weekly papers — and , in a few cases , Sundays .
5 The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face .
6 The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching .
7 Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’
8 One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner .
9 My first thought was to put them in the dustbin .
10 And I noticed Otley was admiring himself in the mirror a lot these days , the predatory gleam back in his hazel eyes , sometimes gold sometimes green , according to where the light was coming from .
11 As the novelist E. M. Forster was to put it in the Indian summer of the bourgeoisie : ‘ In came the dividends , up went the lofty thoughts . ’
12 It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked .
13 Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt .
14 The answer was staring me in the face .
15 To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was .
16 On the speakers , Kim Carnes was feeling it in the air and praising the Universal Song .
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