Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector . |
| 2 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 3 | In that second , while Jinny was babbling on about Joe , the boy looked her straight in the eyes and spoke soundlessly , his lips shaping a single word . |
| 4 | It was , in fact , a much beamier vessel than the police ship , the hull fining up sharply towards bow and stern so that both fore and aft her deep , strong wedge-shape would cause the ice to squeeze her upwards in the event of her being caught in a series of pressure ridges . |
| 5 | I remember standing at the kitchen window watching them outside in the snow . |
| 6 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 7 | He waited until the surface of the water in the bath became quite still , like a pool , like a swimming pool before the very first swimmer enters it early in the morning , and then with one quick move climbed in and lay right under the water with his eyes closed . |
| 8 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 9 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 11 | But no doubt we can return to these matters if the honourable gentleman raises them further in the course of the debate . |
| 12 | When he first struck up a friendship with Joanna , he could never have suspected it would one day put him firmly in the frame in a potential murder investigation . |
| 13 | The larger Diocesan pilgrimage joins us later in the week . |
| 14 | Summoning her courage , Folly looked him squarely in the face . |
| 15 | Both writers make light of this crossing from Fort Augustus to the middle of Glenmoriston , even though it must have proven their most arduous stage so far — eleven miles of high , hard going , ‘ cut in traverses ’ as Johnson says , ‘ so that as we went upon a higher stage , we saw the baggage following us below in a contrary direction . ’ |
| 16 | But Leonskaja 's big technique serves her well in the Scherzo and finale , which come over with more spontaneity , and , in the finale , there is a pleasing warmth in the lyrical second melody at 1′20″ . |
| 17 | Kellard looks me briefly in the eye . |
| 18 | Polyester : Polyester fibres , usually coated with synthetic resin to bond them together in a flat sheet . |
| 19 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |
| 20 | What 's more , when you 've completed 20 transactions , we 'll automatically send you a full statement to keep you completely in the picture . |
| 21 | When in the winter of 838 – 9 Louis the German rebelled openly , the emperor crushed him completely in a swift campaign , and sent him back to Bavaria . |
| 22 | The engine was less than five yards away when he felt a hand shove him hard in the small of the back . |
| 23 | It was a pursuit which , with savage irony , took her across Lawrence Road , scene of her last attack in December 1991 when a youth punched her hard in the face . |
| 24 | Without any provocation or excuse , M. struck her violently in the face with a rolled up newspaper . |
| 25 | The Cambridge local examinations had only just been opened to girls and her performance in mathematics placed her alone in the first class . |
| 26 | Yes that 's a good idea sit them together in the hall . |
| 27 | Two days after the two men returned from Germany , the SS officer pulled her aside in the officers ' mess . |
| 28 | As he did so a jolt of static electricity hit him right in the tip of his unrestrained bobber . |
| 29 | ‘ I think Oswald was about to tell us , ’ I replied , ‘ before someone 's dagger took him firmly in the back . |
| 30 | Following their usual custom the accused kept the medal until the victim collected it later in the day when the latter would pay for it . |