Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now I understand how Selden knew that the hound was following him in the dark . |
| 2 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 3 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 4 | The only way to banish the bogeyman was to look him in the eye without flinching . |
| 5 | Before she could puzzle over his rather cryptic last sentence he continued , ‘ I do n't know whether you noticed , but the doge was wearing it in the second of his portraits . ’ |
| 6 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 7 | My first thought was to put them in the dustbin . |
| 8 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 9 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 10 | The answer was staring me in the face . |
| 11 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |