Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 FERDINAND … . my imagination will carry me To see her in the shameful act of sin … .
2 ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled .
3 That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order .
4 I caught it in the other hand .
5 WHEN I BEGAN to write about Thrush Green in 1958 , I described it in the first few pages of the book I called Thrush Green , and a little later as seen by Ruth Bassett from the bedroom window of her late grandfather 's beautiful house overlooking the green .
6 I hold you in the greatest esteem for the peerless courage you displayed in all you undertook .
7 I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made .
8 My best dress that she 'd sewed , my blouses with her embroidery : I put them in the hard square leather case .
9 No I put it in the last two times .
10 I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . "
11 ( Have I got it in the first place ?
12 I kick her in the mental shins .
13 I ca n't stand it , I hear it in the early hours . ’
14 Notice what Jesus says in verse seven , he says , I tell you in the same way there 'll be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents , than over ninety nine righteous persons who need no repentance .
15 I tell you in the same way , there will be joy in heaven over one sinner that repents .
16 I tell you in the Welsh town of Abercwmboi [ the accent was bogus Welsh ]
17 I find it in the unlikeliest places , many of which had not sold it for at least 25 years .
18 If I 'm allowed to have food , why ca n't I have it in the same cell as Elaine ? ’
19 It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s .
20 Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that .
21 So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force .
22 Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on !
23 ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’
24 I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him .
25 ‘ Not unless I do it in the next three months , ’ she told him .
26 I adore it in the early mornings , when the sun is still behind the hill .
27 I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago .
28 I did it in the dull knowledge that there was no way I could get up that hill .
29 I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages
30 Could I put them in the soft box ?
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