Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 2 | Nicolo 's mouth captured hers in a slow , insolent kiss . |
| 3 | And his hard mouth claimed hers in a burning kiss that sent her pulses racing , a muffled gasp of pleasure coming from her as her mouth opened hungrily beneath his . |
| 4 | An action followed which in the next few years captured many of those leaders with a superior ideology . |
| 5 | ( Paradoxically the release of tension enabled him in the next week to run up , turn out , patch together , a poetical melodrama about Cabestainh with which the house-guests had some civilised fun . ) |
| 6 | It was difficult to remember the route , but Lowell 's van in the bottom field signposted them in the right direction . |
| 7 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 8 | The boy found himself in a peculiar position . |
| 9 | He was a chaser of the highest class , and had not other horses of unproven stamina excelled themselves in the National ? |
| 10 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
| 11 | That is the same price Leeds council paid them in the mid 1980 's and about £2.5m less than the local authority are looking for now . |
| 12 | Delight flooded her in a great wave , and — oh yes , I am right ! cried her mind . |
| 13 | One thrust of this revolt displayed itself in a widespread attachment to the established church of the pre-1625 period , with its more relaxed doctrinal approach that was able to accommodate the beliefs of Richard Hooker as well as those of the compilers of the Lambeth Articles ; the other took the form of the ‘ left-wing Arminianism ’ of radical groups such as the General Baptists and Quakers , who rejected the rigidities of predestination in favour of the belief that all could attain salvation , and who , it is argued , won much popular support as a consequence . |
| 14 | Then another child sorted them in a different way . |
| 15 | Faced with narrow options , the Chancellor broadened them in the only way realistically open to him — chronologically . |
| 16 | The 34027 Locomotive Group found themselves in a similar position with a well-loaded train being cancelled within sight of the locomotive being prepared , so to speak . |
| 17 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
| 18 | ‘ The threat from a nuclear war forced us in the post-war period to think in terms of war destroying the whole planet . |
| 19 | More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism . |
| 20 | GARY MASON , whose avowed game plan is meet the world heavyweight champion , Mike Tyson , sometime in 1991 , last night found himself in the nearest thing to a test against that granite-hard fighter that his supporters could hope to imagine . |
| 21 | The other concealed itself in a discarded leather shoe . |
| 22 | Most people kept their papers in tobacco tins ; one man kept his in a biscuit tin , and one shaikh stored his in an old suitcase . |
| 23 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 24 | Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s . |
| 25 | On inquiring where the bathroom was , the woman told me in a timid voice that although it was the door facing mine , there would be no hot water available until after supper . |
| 26 | ( Zhores Medvedev 's attempts to spell out the injury thus caused to scientific-technical advance landed him in a mental hospital . ) |
| 27 | ‘ But John Reed knocked me down and my aunt locked me in the red room , ’ I cried . |
| 28 | As his face came close to Edward 's , his breath hit him in a shocking wave . |
| 29 | One round hit him in the right shoulder , at the rear . |
| 30 | My need of M. Chaillot 's advice put me in a weak position . |