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 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | I did it in the dull knowledge that there was no way I could get up that hill . |
| 19 | I liked him in the Pink Panther . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I wrapped him in the big blanket we 'd brought as he was already shivering . |
| 22 | Skirting the lakeside , she took a route which led her in the opposite direction from him . |
| 23 | The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open . |
| 24 | For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years . |
| 25 | As has been noted , services are far less easy prey to import penetration ; and the broad financial sector fared well out of a sharp rise in inflation and the high interest rates which accompanied it in the early 1970s . |
| 26 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 27 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 28 | How you going to know exactly where the boundaries go or i in between some land-lock countries that you got it in the right position |
| 29 | Yet another court case would loom from this situation although , for once , it was The Smiths who found themselves in the receiving end . |
| 30 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |