Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would be hurting no one because , even if Rune had lied and was still involved in some emotional way with Lotta , the Swedish girl had already assumed they were lovers and obviously accepted them in that role without suffering undue pain . |
| 2 | The first comment may mean that the child has no experience of seeing rusted metal , or she may have seen rusty objects but not connected them in any way with exposure to air and moisture . |
| 3 | If people genuinely wanted social change from the educational system ( and they did ) , they generally wanted it in familiar guise . |
| 4 | She just destroyed it in one go . |
| 5 | He was not quick to anger and confrontation ; shocks caught up with him slowly and he usually faced them in solitary depression rather than by throwing a scene . |
| 6 | Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . |
| 7 | Wealthy friends who still held him in high regard as a man , raised money and set the family up in a 500 acre property which they arranged in the names of Mrs. Piper and the children . |
| 8 | Also , by implication , Bukharin was challenging the views of Rosa Luxemburg , and all who since followed her in this matter , in her assumption that arms production is a field for the creation of surplus-value . |
| 9 | Business Week , in February 1989 , also ranked them in fourth position , with 1988 revenues of $55m. earned from 1185 searches by 118 consultants . |
| 10 | He also told her in great detail what kind of a woman Gina was . |
| 11 | Defenders of the evacuees pointed out that the exercise had taken place at the end of a particularly hot summer , in which head lice would have thrived , that parents had not been properly informed of how long their children would be evacuated for ( and hence despatched them in one day 's clothing ) , or that the first day of evacuation ( 1 September ) was a Friday — the day on which working-class financial resources would have been at their lowest , preventing parents buying extra garments for their children . |
| 12 | Her imagination , which often inconvenienced her in this way , began to suggest that , naturally , this remote valley would be the haunt of rabid , starving packs of feral dogs . |
| 13 | ‘ And there was I imagining that underneath that hostile exterior there was a girl who really held me in high esteem . ’ |
| 14 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 15 | He accompanied King James on the visit which he made to Scotland to impose episcopacy , and in his sermons there supported him in this venture , which was to have calamitous results for the monarchy in the next reign . |
| 16 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 17 | Well it well ah but ah but they never they never killed it in that quantity as they 're doing it now . |
| 18 | Johns was always liked , but it was ironic , and irony never interested me in visual art the way that it did in literature or the theatre . |
| 19 | A record shows , 'The inhabitants of the place said we never saw it in this fashion before ; we were left to wander and none cared for our souls ; but now a brighter day has dawned for us . ’ |