Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
2 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
3 | I found myself in the curious position of being the sponsor minister of the industry and also the minister ultimately answerable for health service spending . |
4 | I stayed there for a week in January and for once I found myself in the overworked brochure cliche : Marrakech is a city of contrasts and a fascinating blend of the old and new . |
5 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge . |
6 | I found myself in the ludicrous position of having to judge music I was n't in a position to judge |
7 | The WAAF suddenly wound the chair back and I found myself in the semi-prone position with the white bulk looming over me . |
8 | ( Once , taking the night train from London to Paris , I found myself in the locked sleeping compartment of a locked coach in a locked hold beneath the waterline on a cross-channel ferry ; I did n't think of Jonah at the time , but perhaps my panic was related to his . |
9 | The chair was comfortable but low and I found myself in the disconcerting position of having to look up at him while we spoke . |
10 | By chance , I found myself in the royal apartments , a long , polished gallery where the freshly waxed wood winked in the sunlight and the walls shimmered with the exquisite tapestries hung there . |
11 | But afterwards , I found myself in the dim bathroom of my hut staring at a haunted face . |
12 | Without knowing how , I found myself in the smart medieval quarter again . |
13 | When I made my way down its spiral staircase I found myself in the main thoroughfare of the town where I was born . |
14 | I caught it in the other hand . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
17 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
18 | from my vantage point I saw nothing in the few seconds between the County Inspector 's announcement to have incited what appeared to be a concerted start by the police . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 ! |
21 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
22 | ‘ 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 . |
23 | I did it in the first year , I 'm in the fifth year now , that was four years ago . |
24 | I did it in the dull knowledge that there was no way I could get up that hill . |
25 | I did it in the sixth form , it 's really hard , it takes ages |
26 | I liked him in the Pink Panther . |
27 | I earned it in the first place , so strictly speaking it 's still mine ; but you learn not to say some things in marriage . |
28 | ‘ I thought I had him in the second round be he wriggled off the hook . ’ |
29 | Gradually these dreams came less often until they stopped altogether , although I still do n't know why I had them in the first place . |
30 | I left them in the self-induced bedlam of a Harvey Nichols changing room , and promised to meet them later at the flat to examine our spoils , then went to meet Dee . |