Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 2 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 3 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 4 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 5 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 6 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 7 | After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition . |
| 8 | After Brundle 's Jaguar took off like a scalded cat , it was Mass who hunted it down , and soon engaged it in a lurid battle . |
| 9 | ‘ Villa totally outclassed us in the first half and we were extremely lucky only to be a goal down . |
| 10 | I could get tired of even roulette if I always played it in the same place . ’ |
| 11 | Yes , I could see by the way she grumbled about Wilson that she loved him and , although he was over eighty at the time , still saw him in a romantic light . |
| 12 | Occasionally he retaliated with his own efforts about the relative sweetness of something his guest had brought , but he usually said it in an unconvinced , muddled way . |
| 13 | He looked so tall and reliable and gentle and wise , and always greeted her in a kindly way with a little bow and a murmur . |
| 14 | The Minister also told me in a written reply about the education and social opportunities that were available to young offenders . |
| 15 | In Jordan , 21 veterans operating under the name of Muhammad 's Army attacked security forces last year and were imprisoned by King Hussein , who later released them in a politic amnesty . |
| 16 | United deserved the win , but they nearly lost it in the closing minutes . |
| 17 | In her eyes the marriage was good , life with Robert was still exciting , he was ambitious and popular at court , and he also kept her in a high degree of affluence . |
| 18 | Yeah , probably did it in a few hours |
| 19 | He often visited her in the early months , talking as if the passive figure in the background was n't there . |
| 20 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 21 | The ubiquitous billboard portraits of President Saddam often showed him in a green uniform . |
| 22 | But her religious faith now took her in a new direction . |
| 23 | Dignam used to joke about how his priestly teacher , a devotee of the classical drama , invariably cast him in the leading roles of Shakespeare 's heroines , Portia , Juliet , and Ophelia among them . |
| 24 | But she could not , so she simply told him in a flat tone , ‘ We 've recently started exporting to Europe and Japan . |
| 25 | And if , because of that , you never want to see me again — because , after all , I am no better than Havvie ; I simply raped you in a different way — ’ And , having lapsed into complete incoherence , he fell silent , not knowing what to say , except to add humbly , ‘ I think that your father approves of my suit , but that is no matter . |
| 26 | Keep the old man in there , get him out in good time to defrost , maybe even put him in a hot bath to remove any traces of his preservation . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm very lucky because I 'm sure there are loads of managers who get fed up with their artists music or maybe never even liked it in the first place ! |
| 28 | Bradl has a 150-strong fan club , who most importantly supported him in the early stages of his career . |
| 29 | He scratched under his bag wig , knocking it askew , then straightened it in a fussy way , all the time fidgeting in his seat as if the bugs were biting there too . |
| 30 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |