Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 2 | This , remember , was said only a few months after Battiston of France suffered a serious neck injury when Schumacher , the West German goalkeeper , brutally bodychecked him in a World Cup semi-final . |
| 3 | Might have been my idea — well , it was , but I only said it in a fit of temper ! — but she carried it out . |
| 4 | As I lay on O 's chest something moved me to snap the locket open , and I remember I asked , who is that ? thinking maybe this was the solution to the mystery , and he said , in the same voice that he talked with later in the night , a sleepwalker 's voice , without taking his eyes off the ceiling he said , I do n't know ; I just found it in a magazine . |
| 5 | Haslam soon found himself in a position of having to make entrepreneurial decisions of staggering proportions . |
| 6 | But she was still smiling at me , so I just tied it in a knot and left it . |
| 7 | Do we just le do we just leave them and not put them in a locker ? |
| 8 | We 'd started with a lobster bisque that was almost certainly Sainsbury 's , but since Sainsbury 's almost certainly make the finest lobster bisque that ever found itself in a can , there can be no complaint . |
| 9 | All I can say is that this excursion into public affairs further encouraged me in a project I had already formed : namely to write a book on political theory , to be entitled Liberal and Servile Society . |
| 10 | Mr Torughu promptly placed it in an envelope with his official report and sent it to UEFA . |
| 11 | When Adam had a document for Miranda to sign that he thought she might argue about , he always included it in a sheaf of other papers he handed to her at the end of the day , when she was exhausted . |
| 12 | A THIEF who stole power tools from a Whitby store later sold them in a pub , the town 's magistrates heard yesterday . |
| 13 | Of course , it ai n't my business who she is and what she 's doin' here , you probably found her in a gypsy caravan outside Spurgeon 's Tabernacle and brought her here while me back was turned . |
| 14 | I later found him in a dressing room with a cigarette in his hand , but he was shaking so much he could n't light it . ’ |
| 15 | Terror gripped her so completely that she was incapable of opening it and let it fall to the floor where — she very nearly followed it in a faint . |
| 16 | The previous fifty years had provided so many alternative and revolutionary styles , that architects and clients alike often found themselves in a quandry as to which to go for . |
| 17 | Charles now found himself in a situation that would often recur : he had important unfinished business in Aquitaine , but his presence was required in Francia . |
| 18 | A MAN who forced a teenage couple to strip naked and then sexually assaulted them in a bank doorway was jailed for seven years yesterday , writes John Robertson . |
| 19 | This desire to achieve unity along German lines often expressed itself in a distaste for the legalistic rationalism of the West ( France , England ) . |
| 20 | well it 's like Elly , you know , I mean even she said she 's , I can really see , she said I even said it in an argument the other day , cos none of them could see at the time |
| 21 | Once before I told you something that Angela Thirkell said , and you sold me to Edna [ E. Box , the painter ] , who sold you to Olivia , who told someone else , who straightway wrote it in a letter to Angela herself . |
| 22 | A few more yells and crashings about and Mr Landor invariably wrapped himself in a quilt and fell asleep . |
| 23 | To say I forcibly removed him in a headlock because he was ‘ In five short minutes , playing himself back into the job of Athletico manager ’ , is not only true but also likely to get this fanzine banned within a fifteen-mile radius of ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 24 | The man did n't need telling twice , and as the boy began to follow him , Connor suddenly remembered : at some time during the evening , when the saloon till ran short of change , he had put in some silver of his own and taken out a fiver — then stuffed it in a pewter tankard on the shelf for safekeeping . |
| 25 | A YOUNG thug killed a complete stranger with a baseball bat — then used it in a park game with his pals , a jury heard yesterday . |
| 26 | The air pressure forced me to my knees and I watched while the wind screwed great oak trees out of the earth and then dropped them in a mess of green leaves and splintered wood . |
| 27 | ‘ The Master took them quietly from his person and told him such things were not allowed to be introduced into the workhouse , he then placed himself in a fighting attitude and threatened to knock the Master 's teeth down his throat , thereby setting bad examples to others ’ |
| 28 | MILLIONAIRE oilman David Elton killed his wife then drowned himself in a fit of despair after losing his high-flying job . |
| 29 | Whereas Vidor had started out with a theoretical notion and then wrapped it in a melodrama , Capra had started out with a fairly ordinary story and then breathed charm , wit , pace , sex , and reality into it , not least by harnessing the natural talents and showmanship of Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable . |
| 30 | The difficulty was that he could not enjoy this camaraderie without also falling in love with one of the boys , and by doing so he once again cast himself in an outsider position . |