Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 2 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 3 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 4 | ( 1981 ) also shows how positive measures to meet the needs of visually handicapped pupils can help them to flourish in a happy community atmosphere . |
| 5 | He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug . |
| 6 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 7 | Well this highlights my point I made in a previous message … how many of the above transfers out can you say we should have got more ? |
| 8 | No they 're not gon na exploit their own workers but surely the , the , the whole idea of the build up towards land reform is that you are making , I mean in a Marxist sense it 's the only way in which you can do it is , is you make progress through conflict . |
| 9 | I mean in a different town , not just |
| 10 | I must explain that and I eat in a special compartment , screened from the other foreign friends , who pay for their own meals . |
| 11 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |
| 12 | I lived in a small village in Essex with my sister , who was over twenty years older than me , and married to Joe Gargery , the village blacksmith . |
| 13 | Finances were riding along the crest of a slump and I lived in a one-room penthouse in Bakers Arms , Leyton ( on top of the opticians ) . |
| 14 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 15 | I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular . |
| 16 | On every local flight that I make in a single-seater glider , I do some sideslipping on the approach to keep in practice . |
| 17 | The importers were n't reliable , and neither were the craftsmen , especially those who persuaded me to pay them in advance Then I got in a financial muddle because I did n't keep my bookkeeping up to date . ’ |
| 18 | I got in a bad way . |
| 19 | so it 's all hot on the plate and served straight away you know , luckily erm I managed it but I got in a little bit of a flap I will admit it whereas Shirl 's now got used to that I mean I when we first came we both used to do our own help each other out I used to help out but erm |
| 20 | ‘ Let's just say I got in a tight spot . ’ |
| 21 | At 4 o'clock I posed in a flower-decked kiosk wearing Amy 's brand-new Marks and Spencer 's floral cotton and an awful lot of Elizabeth Arden 's Flawless Finish . |
| 22 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 23 | She was there again when I helped in a feeding centre in Seoul in Korea , when the people came from broken down shacks once a day to get soup and rice . |
| 24 | I wandered in a desultory fashion into the family room which looked dead without the fire blazing and began to wonder what I could make for dinner . |
| 25 | As I mentioned in a previous memo , if the Government decides to endorse the re-establishment of the Welsh Affairs Committee , and it chooses to continue the study , we will want to give evidence . |
| 26 | If I behaved in a similar fashion I would expect to lose my ‘ ticket ’ and be imprisoned for a considerable time . |
| 27 | I stopped in a little restaurant and ordered a hot dog by pointing at a picture of one that hung over the greasy counter . |
| 28 | I put in a square bracket on the minutes |
| 29 | ‘ I put in a TOP TIP about it and got the go-ahead to install Kan-Krushers at 18 different points on the site . |
| 30 | ‘ The last two sets were probably the best two sets I played in a long time , ’ said Sampras , who became the youngest ever US Open champion at 19 three years ago . |