Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 31 | His voice wandered on in the dull , matter-of-fact tones of someone describing his own environment . |
| 32 | But whenever Angus and his daughter went out in the boat fishing for their lives to keep themselves fed , it seemed that a seal swam in front of the boat and lead them towards the places where the fishes were thickest in the sea in that part of the coast . |
| 33 | One man had his ear sliced off in the fight and another was arrested , but later released . |
| 34 | ‘ They would not have believed us … a bondwoman and a novice near his final vows out in the night and fresh from a romp in the hay ? |
| 35 | Stoke were unlucky when substitute Dave Regis , faced with an open goal just seconds after replacing Graham Shaw in the 65th minute , saw his shot pull up in the water-logged goalmouth . |
| 36 | How long could he and his Sergeant stamp about in the cold feeling sorry for themselves , Charles wondered . |
| 37 | Lefevre spent much of his time standing about in the street outside the theatre to no avail , whilst Thiercelin wasted a day and a half following up a couple of false trails supplied by articles in the local newssheet . |
| 38 | Being Mario , that brought to mind his mother crying back in the camps because there was n't enough food to put on the table , and that led to considerations of the importance of the family in his life , of the value of tradition , thoughts of how Italian he was as well as American , of the kind of clean life America had offered , of his gratitude , of his feeling for his father who 'd made this giant move at such cost to himself , who had suffered so long and who now saw some chance for his kids of bettering themselves . |
| 39 | ‘ I had expected you before this , Mr Beckenham , ’ said the lawyer with a twinkle , setting a chair for his client to sit down in the drawing-room of the small house that served also for his office . |
| 40 | I had a few beers to celebrate , especially with my mate who 'd seen his bet come up in the end . |
| 41 | It is difficult to avoid the further thought that the given characterization of consciousness is elliptical , and that when it is filled in , as it must be , we are no further ahead , but have our definiendum turning up in the definiens . |
| 42 | It 's just to keep it tidy for me and your mummy coming down in the morning son . |
| 43 | If it is n't the oh , so charming Sally-Anne — missing from our midst to turn up in the East End — and in fancy dress , too ! ’ |
| 44 | Our own landing proved quite conventional with our pilot putting down in the middle of a playing field in Wootton Bassett , but it 's a normal shaped balloon ; the mobile telephone is a different matter . |
| 45 | The trouble is , just like the children of Israel , we spend our time wandering around in the wilderness . |
| 46 | And if it were , there is your fleet waiting out in the estuary to welcome it . |