Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If people genuinely wanted social change from the educational system ( and they did ) , they generally wanted it in familiar guise . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He also told her in great detail what kind of a woman Gina was . |
| 6 | ‘ And there was I imagining that underneath that hostile exterior there was a girl who really held me in high esteem . ’ |
| 7 | As a small boy , I devised my own set of cartoon animals , and they now stood me in good stead . |
| 8 | 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 . |