Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attendance , indeed , would not have cost Britain anything or compromised it in any way , since unlike the meeting called to consider the ECSC , participants at Messina were not required to accept the principle of supranationalism in advance . |
| 2 | DUCHESS IN DISGRACE : Fergie cools off on the holiday that landed her in hot water |
| 3 | And as she pushed open the west door Miss Danziger was met by the scent of fennel , the six-foot stems of which towered over her from a huge stoneware pot , very different from the musty scent of piety that greeted her in English country churches . |
| 4 | As I developed I became a big bloke and that stood me in good stead . |
| 5 | That , mixed with the mule 's contribution , produced an atmosphere in the cabin that stood me in good stead for the rest of my flying career . |
| 6 | This was quite a long passage for us , but we were lucky with the weather and made it in one leg . |
| 7 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 8 | A family of brothers , fathers and uncles on the front table took an instant dislike to me and , slamming their pints on the table , sat back with arms crossed and regarded me in stony-faced silence . |
| 9 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 10 | It was n't just Frank they were looking for , if they had n't shot him already and buried him in some bog . |
| 11 | She 's got her stocking feet right up between his legs and cuddles his feet in her ample bosom , having previously removed his shoes and socks and displayed them in sideways V-sign on the little shelf at the window . |
| 12 | Thanks to their extensive plagiarism from the Old Testament , Clement argued , Plato and the Greek philosophers had found out many true things and expressed them in beautiful language . |
| 13 | I put down my lunch and followed him in frantic pursuit . |
| 14 | He held her by the shoulders and kissed her in continental fashion on the cheeks . |
| 15 | Jessamy stood in the doorway and watched him in angry astonishment . |
| 16 | Sister Cooney stood and watched it in mild amusement , before turning and walking thoughtfully inside . |
| 17 | Casually it beat the fish into stillness on the branch and swallowed it in one gulp . |
| 18 | I did this experiment in four frenzied weeks in 1984 with a fanatically hard-working , Warsaw-based autoradiographer , Margaret Kossut , and repeated them in more detail the following year with a neuroanatomist from Budapest , Andras Csillag , who helped identify the anatomical structures in which Margaret and I had found the changes . |
| 19 | And did you in due course , go to the flat ? |
| 20 | The low sun touched the gentle white curves of the plateau with gold and bathed them in undeserved serenity . |
| 21 | It 's a crazy thing where one child pretends to be a carrot and the others top and tail him and put him in boiling water . |
| 22 | And had it in any case anything to do with Francis Garland being shot through the head ? |
| 23 | Then Francis turned and greeted her in perfect English . |
| 24 | He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces . |
| 25 | She , no she , cos she 'd s what , he 'd done his business pel pissed off and left her in this house and she did n't even know . |
| 26 | I went in as usual , took off my greatcoat and tunic and tie and made some small pancakes and dipped them in boiling fat — used to take me a quarter of an hour every night . |
| 27 | Well what do you think would happen to the poor things if left them in that water ? |
| 28 | The coroner smiled at the wine , lifted the cup and downed it in one gulp . |
| 29 | All the same , she badly needed some air and solitude , so she stepped out to the veranda , closed the door silently behind her , slipped off her high heels and held them in one hand , then padded on silent stockinged feet down the back stairs and into the garden . |
| 30 | He was born around the Darlington area and I heard that his family once had money , but lost it in some way . |