Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roberto had written and asked me to carry for him in that year 's Open . |
| 2 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , something happened recently which has prompted me to write to you in this unsolicited way , though God knows we were once . |
| 3 | But I mean the main the main I mean in it in certain quarters we 've been down playing that aspect of it simply to get it through . |
| 4 | ‘ I shouted at it in English but it kept on . |
| 5 | I shouted after them in hoarse astonishment . |
| 6 | ‘ Am I looking for anything in particular ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ May I speak to you in private ? |
| 8 | ‘ Yet the last thing on my mind is business when I look at you in that witchy little dress ! ’ |
| 9 | I nodded to myself in heartfelt agreement ( in those days children did not comment unless asked , and their presence was usually forgotten ) . |
| 10 | All I ask of you in this , as in any other area , is that you keep an open mind . |
| 11 | I stared at him in great surprise . |
| 12 | I looked at her in mock sternness . |
| 13 | I thought of her in 1955 when I was in Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau and saw hungry children huddled in corners of African huts . |
| 14 | I went to her in 1844 , before ever Mr Browning appeared on the scene . ’ |
| 15 | You know it 's er it 's it 's a mystery force , and what I do for one in some way affects the million . |
| 16 | Prayer for strength is appropriate at any stage of our lives and might well be made daily but that does not invalidate the usefulness of marking one day in our life when someone prays over us in public and asks that out of the treasures of his glory , God may grant you strength and power through his spirit in your inner being that through faith cast may dwell in your hearts in love . |
| 17 | I spoke to him in all the languages I knew , but we still could not understand each other . |
| 18 | ( I think of him in some tropical Valhalla , rejoined with Arsenio . |
| 19 | I smiled at them in friendly fashion . |
| 20 | Dad was the coachsmith , a highly skilled trade and in the eyes of his contemporaries ( as I learned from them in later life ) he was an excellent craftsman . |
| 21 | who was at Cambuslang at that time , commented " He seems hurt at being asked to preach as a candidate and I sympathize with him in this , as I think candidating and preaching contests are the most objectional things conceivable , and also the least satisfactory way possible of getting good ministers as a rule good men who have done their work well will not preach as candidates for myself I never in my life either preached as a candidate , offered for a parish or got a certificate . " |
| 22 | ( 6 ) is very similar : given the opinion that Sir Jee had of himself , he could not understand what could lead someone to speak to him in such a way . |
| 23 | and they revolt against it and you 've just got ta keep your fingers crossed that nothing happens to them in that period . |
| 24 | Nothing came of it in 1545 , though in June French troops arrived to give the Scots temporary assistance against the English . |
| 25 | But then she looked into his eyes , which dwelt upon her in huge solemnity , and knew that he was burningly sincere . |
| 26 | Rock and roll , which arrived for me in 1958 , had completely severed the younger generation from its elders . |
| 27 | Nobody talked to her in particular , but she was sitting opposite Miles and , from time to time , a smile flew roughly in her direction , for which she was grateful . |
| 28 | Also sitting at Robin 's table was the brilliant surgeon Mr Alan Crockard who operated on him in 1988 to save his life . |
| 29 | As she gazed at him in mute appeal he turned his back . |
| 30 | She gazed at him in blank astonishment . |