Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | When the hamlets were first included in the development area for the new city of Milton keynes in the 1960s , people of Calverton fought it in the High Court and won . |
| 3 | Late that evening , Corbett was found by a servant sent by Selkirk , who announced in broad Scots that the knight would be grateful if Corbett joined him in the outer bailey near the main gate . |
| 4 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 5 | His idea of duty took the form of inviting Neil to join him in the nightly round of enjoyment which made up Stair 's life . |
| 6 | Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) . |
| 7 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 8 | Then as her stomach jumps in panic , Maggie sees them in the far corner , Lucy and Frieda , with Jo beside them . |
| 9 | Jane saw it in the smallest things , all impossible in self-conscious Britain . |
| 10 | Ruthin join them in the last four after routing Rhos on Sea 8–1 , Arwyn Pierce and Stephen Flanagan and Geraint Wyn Jones and Dave Fuller with three wins and Sid Smith and Stefan Dowitcz two . |
| 11 | It was left to his brother Laurence to include it in the posthumous More Poems ( 1936 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The teaching of deaf children by oral methods alone was not new ; the earliest teachers of the deaf such as Dr. William Holder and Dr. John Wallis tried it in the 1660s with ( as evidence shows ) far less success than they wrote about in the publications which earned them fame . |
| 14 | Instead , Eubank clinically TKO 'd him in the ninth . |
| 15 | The borough of Bandon was reputed to have the most sectarian electorate in county Cork and , in 1835 , Jackson contested it in the Conservative interest . |
| 16 | As Thomas Becon put it in the sixteenth century , it was a ‘ duty of children ’ whose parents were ‘ aged and fallen into poverty , so that they are not able to live of themselves , or to get their living by their own industry and labour ’ , to work and care for them and ‘ provide necessaries for them , ‘ just as in their own childhoods ‘ their parents cared and provided for them . ’ |
| 17 | Stephen had them in the handsome , leather-bound edition of the International Collectors ' Library and also in the paperbacks that had come out to go with the television series . |
| 18 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 19 | Harry received him in the large parlour , against whose windows a summer gale was hurling heavy drops of rain . |
| 20 | Booth did it in the last minute , slipping the ball home after Lee Richardson , an outstanding performer in the Aberdeen midfield , had struck the post with a clever shot made possible when Rhodes miskicked . |
| 21 | Notice the bust of Dobrovský standing in front of the charming garden house which the Nostics gave him in the last years of his life . |
| 22 | ‘ Tennents did it in the wrong way . |
| 23 | The metaphor this time is not the one from Genesis which tells how God made us in the divine image , male and female , and that completion lies in the union of men and women . |
| 24 | Viscount Dunedin expressed it in the following words : |
| 25 | ‘ Craig hurt me in the first round , but Robert told me to work harder and it all went well . ’ |
| 26 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 27 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 28 | And you know , if we wait for God to baptize us in the Holy Spirit , can I suggest you 'll wait until you die and still not know that experience . |
| 29 | Belinda met him in the front hall on his way to his sister 's room , and as expected he raised questioning eyebrows . |
| 30 | She had not yet worn any of the gowns sent by Tamar and was longing for Bob to see her in the blue one . |