Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pron] [adj] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 2 | My friends were taken somewhere else and I found myself alone in a kind of dungeon at the end of a metal chute . |
| 3 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |
| 4 | I thought for an incredible moment that I caught something familiar in the sound — but it could n't be . |
| 5 | I picture it safe in the hands |
| 6 | then I pedalled myself blue in the face on the Exercise Machine . |
| 7 | Shortly after Dick took off in his P-40 , Bill Dodds and I joined him airborne in a T-6 . |
| 8 | ‘ I saw something white in a clump of leaves . |
| 9 | See I do I get them right in the class |
| 10 | ‘ But they won through in a dour encounter and I wish them well in the next round . |
| 11 | ‘ You got yourself involved in an explosion . |
| 12 | Then , not wanting to return to bed , she made herself comfortable in the wicker armchair , her eyes gazing on her husband 's sleeping face . |
| 13 | ‘ Nothing I can think of , unless you want something fancy in the way of cheeses . |
| 14 | Then further on you found them high in the trees where the water had swept them . |
| 15 | Have you noticed anything untoward in the village ? ’ |
| 16 | Again she was questioning why in creation she was giving in to his edicts , but , when she received nothing new in the way of an answer , rebellion set in . |
| 17 | That becomes only too clear if you find yourself hungry in a tropical rain forest . |
| 18 | And talking of police , it 's a dead cert that the very day a Neighbourhood Watch leaflet arrives , detailing all the recent burglaries in your area , is the one day you find yourself alone in the house . |
| 19 | The first time you use your Steamatic in the bathroom you could be in for quite a surprise . |
| 20 | She stared him full in the eye , as if seeking the truth in the way he looked at her , rather than in the words he spoke . |
| 21 | As she spoke she looked him full in the face with her great beautiful eyes . |
| 22 | She looked him full in the face as she spoke . |
| 23 | She tore it open in a frenzy ; she would go home , at once , tomorrow , at least she was appreciated there , well anyway by her father , at least she did n't make a fool of herself — ; |
| 24 | Thorny presents sugar lumps in a plastic bowl and smiles ; she expects something sinister in the smile but it is guileless . |
| 25 | Did you find it lonely in a room on your own ? |
| 26 | Those responsible are having problems adapting to adult life and we try to help , to give them the skills they lack and to get them to do something constructive in the community . ’ |
| 27 | Emil briefly consulted a notebook , stowed his travel bag on a rack in a small bedroom and directed me to put my big in the one next door . |
| 28 | We allow ourselves a little bit more time to get the design right cos the reason we got it wrong in the first place was because it was a quick spend project and nobody er had time to do it properly . |
| 29 | Then one night he drank very heavily and ran wildly out of the house , and in the morning we found him dead in a river . |
| 30 | Inside , after the bright desert light , we found ourselves blind in the darkness . |