Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight . |
| 2 | When my young cousin 's pet budgie died , her parents buried it in the garden while she was asleep to avoid her being upset . |
| 3 | Only once have the gods assaulted me in the guise of another person . |
| 4 | In the last year of his life Carleton 's connections with the tightly knit Puritan gentry of the midlands involved him in the Puritan literary conspiracy of the Marprelate tracts . |
| 5 | And this time China 's rulers knifed it in the back with shameless savagery — then set about hounding the survivors in a reign of terror . |