Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For all the world as if she and Miss Beard were ladies of quality , he ceremoniously handed them into the carriage , the two of them to sit together in the back , while Herbert Fraser sat beside Sean in the front .
2 It was an angle that caused them to fall apart in the end .
3 ‘ When the manager wanted me to work out in the reserves I accepted it .
4 The use of acrylic colours in my palette allows me in all aspects of landscape painting to correct and add light ; in fact it enables me to work more in the manner of an oil painter .
5 The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality .
6 A pick up a penguin right , great , come on then Jeff say something pardon it did n't pick that up he said bollocks , Jeff just said bollocks , that 's good oh if tonight we would , see me driving along in the car and got that on , oh no , it 'll be really funny , we 're gon na be sitting there going come on as if we 'd said that today
7 When I came back and found the cottage demolished , naturally in distress and amazement , I asked around in the village .
8 When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport .
9 But one aspect that I find very worrying is the extraordinary level of negativity in the media and I mean particularly in the newspapers . ’
10 I eat alone in the dining room and the next morning set off early back to Mr Shah 's hotel .
11 Rather as it looked when I lay there in the dark , wedged between the changed Herta and the cold wall , in full confidence of erotic failure .
12 I lay there in the Bomb Circle where I killed her other son , and I hoped that she was dead , too .
13 You and I met once in the past , but now our lives are separate .
14 As I sit here in the dark in , what is , after all , an artist 's home , writing by the light of the overhead lamp , I can see the shapes and colours and forms and the old excited feelings are returning .
15 But I realize , as I sit here in the offices of the Strategy Unit , away from my usual desk and my usual routine , and charged with scrupulous self-examination , that I look forward to being interrupted , and that I also get a certain satisfaction from these sighs and clickings of the tongue .
16 I sit down in the armchair and eat my cereal .
17 I sit there in the laboratory , ’ says Phil , ‘ trying to think how people go , and I ca n't remember .
18 That I got up in the night and walked into an open press . ’
19 I got up in the night and took fish out of your barrels , Harry Pascoe , 'cos I could n't abide the thought of being wed to you , do you hear me ?
20 Chip slept in a chair in the kitchen and was always at the door to greet me when I got up in the morning .
21 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
22 No , I was , I was , came over all , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , I 'll try and park outside Westgate , I did n't feel right when I got up in the morning , Kelly get round , yes I can go and oh find Robert erm , yeah I did n't feel right in the morning , but as soon as the day went on as soon as I had this salmon salad , sandwich , and Rob said to me well you sure it was n't that , cos he said sometimes that salmon could make people feel a bit , nothing wrong with that , it 's just a tin of salmon , you know .
23 So when I got up in the morning this bloody landlord was here , full side of beef , oh , I said , I do n't want that bugger going home in that and getting stopped Full side of beef !
24 Oh , yes , it took me a bit of time to recognise you , but I got there in the end .
25 My Rudd Cup football medal would nestle in its cotton wool till I got back in the holidays .
26 Is your memory completely addled , or am I caught up in the middle of a prize piece of double-dealing ? ’
27 ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ I say later in the kitchen .
28 I say surprisingly in the case of Christian feminists because it is so clear to me that women , or the feminine , can never hold an equivalent place to male figures or motifs within what is a deeply masculine religion .
29 Unlikely though it may seem , as I wandered miserably in the snow in a duffle coat , puffing my pipe , around the cobblestones and concrete of Wilhelmshaven , I was still , in naval terms , serving aboard a ship , HMS Royal Rupert to be precise .
30 I place firmly in the Government 's lap the responsibility for failing to tackle crime .
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