Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm breaking up the spaghetti cos I hate it in long lengths ! |
| 2 | ‘ I found him in great spirits . |
| 3 | I want it simplified , I want it in big letters this is good for you , this is not so good , or this is bad |
| 4 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
| 5 | I told him in great detail . |
| 6 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 7 | I put it in inverted commas , because many of us just do different kinds of non-waged work at the weekends , or work at providing leisure facilities . |
| 8 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 9 | I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky . |
| 10 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 11 | Because I got some by mistake cos it , yes I know it in Chinese dishes but I do n't quite know what they do with it . |
| 12 | The Forest boss said : ‘ I watched him in five-a-side training and it was as if he 'd never been away . |
| 13 | I put her in cold water till the ambulance came , but I did n't know what else to do ! ’ |
| 14 | So I knitted it in double jacquard . |
| 15 | I had it in big letters — ‘ Father ’ Arrien ( the father in inverted commas ! ) will preach on the blasphemy of the Roman Mass on such and such an evening — and the priest of the town , he went up to the council and objected to this and said that Wylie 's a trouble maker . |
| 16 | BELVILLE : I know , my dear , I left you in great anxiety but 't is an anxiety you have brought upon yourself , and I have not been easy ever since I parted from you . |
| 17 | I shot them in cold blood and I enjoyed every minute of it … |
| 18 | ‘ You take men from their homes or their chosen occupations , you confine them in insalubrious conditions upon a wholly inadequate diet , you subject them to the tyranny of bosun 's mates , you expose them to unimagined perils ; what is more , you defraud them of their meagre food , pay and allowances — everything but this sacred rum of yours . |
| 19 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 20 | Scie Scientific or You want it in scientific mode if it says scientific |
| 21 | Here is the modest parish church of St Mary : the date of its founding is obscure , but a panel over the porch records that the building was restored by Lady Anne Clifford in 1663 after she found it in ruinous condition . |
| 22 | Perfectly normal , kind , well-intentioned people will behave oddly , becoming upset , withdrawn or even vicious , if you put them in certain kinds of unusual situations . |
| 23 | And you put it in Chinese food ! |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll sign the agreement , ’ she told him in clipped tones . |
| 25 | She had a little flat in the Falls , a house she shared with girlfriends , her family home being in a village outside Derry , and she told him in blunt terms that she had n't seen enough of him at it for too damn long , at it or anywhere else . |
| 26 | Have you got them in separate containers ? |
| 27 | If you want one type of match one or another then you specify them in different rows . |
| 28 | JEREMY Irons says his wife does n't worry when she sees him in sexy scenes on the big screen because she knows he 's not that good . |
| 29 | So you get this in your hot water cylinder , we can get it in boilers , erm you get it in hot water pipes and it happens a lot in in hard water areas , Scale will dissolve in the acid in the bubbles of Twelve point seven . |
| 30 | Perhaps if you heard it in different circumstances , su , you know , surrounded by Chinese people , then maybe you would begin to recognise it . |