Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 2 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 3 | I did n't want to leave the Maxteds behind because they had started out as my passengers , so I went back in a few minutes later to see if they were ready to leave . |
| 4 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 5 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 6 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 7 | She came back in a few minutes , looking very serious . |
| 8 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 9 | But Dreadnought , let alone all her other weak places , had been holed amidships by a baulk of timber , and before long the water poured into her with a sound like a sigh and she went down in a few seconds . |
| 10 | The next time you step out in the same bout , a half-point penalty is incurred . |
| 11 | We grew up in the same turnin' , yer see . |
| 12 | We went round in the same circles for half an hour and I left feeling a mind-numbing frustration , far worse than anything induced by meetings with the Foreign Office . |
| 13 | This way of thinking is not reasonable , yet we carry on in the same way , generation after generation , never learning by our past mistakes . |
| 14 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 15 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 16 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 17 | He 's howling and scr w wailing cos I would n't let him go back in the same chair ! |
| 18 | The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election . |
| 19 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 20 | It went on in the same tone for several excited paragraphs and ended in an even heavier and blacker print . |
| 21 | He ran on in the latter stages , but never looked likely to justify heavy support in the betting market . |
| 22 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |