Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Woolley met her in a Belgian hospital in the summer of 1916 , after he had broken both ankles in a forced landing . |
| 3 | No — she did n't want to be locked away to die , yet as she rushed across the square she escaped death by inches from a dog-cart without noticing it , the magnet that was Christie Goldsborough drawing her in a straight line , through brick walls if need be , to get at him . |
| 4 | In response to some implied criticism I made of his treatment of the sub-editor , Porua regarded me in a sneering silence and then said , ‘ Why should I have regard for my fellows ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Florrie told her in no uncertain terms that she would have to get used to it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm normal now , ’ Maggie assured him in a fuzzy voice as he helped her to the bed and lifted her on to it . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've changed since last night , ’ Ruth told him in a soft murmur . |
| 12 | Then as her stomach jumps in panic , Maggie sees them in the far corner , Lucy and Frieda , with Jo beside them . |
| 13 | It was left to his brother Laurence to include it in the posthumous More Poems ( 1936 ) . |
| 14 | His grandson Robert succeeded him in a bare inheritance , due to provisions made in lands and goods for the children of the third marriage . |
| 15 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 | Penry held her in a loose , impersonal embrace as her tears fell thick and fast , bitter and scalding enough to cauterise the wound in her memory . |
| 19 | The meeting was held as advertised and Kinloch addressed it in a wordy speech in which , after pleading with his audience to keep the peace , he criticized the government for excessive taxation , and declaimed : ‘ In short , the whole of our misfortune as a nation , the whole of our misery , the whole of our distress , can be clearly traced to the circumstances of the people being deprived of their share of the British Constitution by not having a voice in the election of persons to represent them in the House of Commons . ’ |
| 20 | Rose asked her in a low voice . |
| 21 | Harry received him in the large parlour , against whose windows a summer gale was hurling heavy drops of rain . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , Nana , ’ Martha assured her in a distracted tone . |
| 23 | He died in May and the Seales buried him in a shallow grave in a park . |
| 24 | Command of the Army of Africa placed him in a decisive position once the initial impetus of the rising in peninsular Spain was lost . |
| 25 | ‘ Tennents did it in the wrong way . |
| 26 | This sort of behaviour may be cute and quirky when Tom Hanks does it in a feel-good age-swap movie , but in real life it 's pathetic , regressive , and very very sad . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Beth told her in a reproachful voice . |
| 29 | The Oscar joined them in a pretty well-populated four foot tank in early May and appeared to ignore and be ignored by everybody . |
| 30 | Viscount Dunedin expressed it in the following words : |