Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the full awfulness of my landing hit me in a rush . |
| 2 | Had my Pop passed me in the street , he would n't have recognised me . |
| 3 | My husband kicked it in the chest and it flew off but returned shgortly after and attacked the smallest of the dogs pinning it against a stile |
| 4 | It was my job to bury her in the church . |
| 5 | and he said he 'd , he 'd let me know before Christmas if he can get me back on a Wednesday , but I 'm still taken on a Wednesday but my friend takes me in the car on a Wednesday but er I like to go in the ambulance you see really so er |
| 6 | ‘ Of course nothing can be formally arranged just at this present , ’ went on Miss Merchiston , and Theda almost laughed out to see the burgeoning hope in the poor man 's face , ‘ for with dear Mama in this sad condition , I could not reconcile it with my conscience to leave her in the care of other hands . |
| 7 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |
| 8 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 9 | We always had plenty of vegetables , for my father grew them in the garden , and during the Second World War , had an allotment too . |
| 10 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
| 11 | My predecessor supported me in the Lobby last week , as did the vast majority of the House . |
| 12 | And I remember very very well he had a big heavy coat and my mother put him in a very big pocket on the inside of the coat and we always called that his rabbit pocket , because he very often came home with a rabbit . |
| 13 | Apart from the shock that her GP saw her in the same light as his aged mother , Marie has never looked back . |
| 14 | Shedding their skin puts them in the same position as Jane Austen 's heroes , prematurely aged by the treacherous sun of the West Indies . ’ |
| 15 | Fortunately , the result of this test proved to be negative but , given the temperance of her lifestyle , her decision to take it in the first place would , at the very least , seem as bizarre as Mr Oliver Reed , the thirst , embarking upon an assertiveness training course . |
| 16 | Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken . |
| 17 | By the end of the century they were dividing its work betwen them in a systematic and efficient way . |
| 18 | If the rumour is true that Ceauşescu recruited his future guards and secret policemen from among these abandoned souls , then their failure to save him in the crisis of his regime is hardly surprising . |
| 19 | Her boy-friend shot me in the leg . ’ |
| 20 | She was part of a team and content to be just that ; she did n't want to have to leave the protective colouring her job gave her in the safety of the laboratory . |
| 21 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 22 | Her husband chased us in a jeep , and the oscillations of the basket told him what I was doing to his wife , and the poor man was jealous . ’ |
| 23 | Only the pressure of his hand behind her head anchored her in the rushing of the storm . |
| 24 | She came last to Lachlan , and for the first time since he had startled her raised her head to look him in the face . |
| 25 | It is now called The Cottage , but Mrs Smith remembers that her father-in-law bought it in the early thirties and referred to it as ‘ the Doctor 's House . ’ |
| 26 | The local area , of course should be a springboard not a straitjacket , and pupils need to be encouraged to move out from their locality to see it in a wider context , to compare it with other places , and above all , whatever period is under study , to begin to understand why the changes they have documented took place . |
| 27 | At a little after one she informed him that she was ready to leave , her expression leaving him in no doubt that any objections on his part would be swiftly killed . |
| 28 | Her boyfriend found them in the back of his van , abandoned by someone months or years before their discovery , and they have collected chocolate stains from half eaten Minstrels and white smears from Quaker oats . |
| 29 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 30 | ‘ Be quiet ’ her mother reproves her in a whisper . |