Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I let myself in , and stopped to look around me in the small outer room . |
| 2 | On her way out Mrs Bradshaw again suggested that I phone the police , and I promised to think about it in the morning . |
| 3 | That 's why , I said I , I said I 'd heard about you in the papers and the just said oh yeah ! |
| 4 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 5 | I asked my friends who have had au pairs what they 'd expected of them in the kitchen . |
| 6 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
| 7 | I knew she was registered at Essex , I knew she was basically dishonest , a boozer , a feminist and — from the brief glimpse I 'd caught of her in the Mimosa Club — no featherweight . |
| 8 | The actress had been venomous when she 'd chanced upon them in the corridor , but she 'd displayed the spitefulness of a disappointed woman , not a wronged one . |
| 9 | She wanted to make Dan sound as good as possible and after some of the stunts he 'd played on her in the past that was difficult . |
| 10 | Went to stay with them and Ruth came to read to you in the morning . |
| 11 | Oh no , Ann came to read to you in the mornings did n't she ? |
| 12 | You see , I never saw him till he came to stay with us in the school holidays . ’ |
| 13 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 14 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 15 | Although Blanche had been sad standing there in Mother 's empty flat , she had been overtaken then by the same feeling she sensed come over her in the interrogation room that night after Taczek had left . |
| 16 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
| 17 | A hand began feeling at him in the places he might carry a gun , so Maxim said to Fraulein Winkelmann : ‘ It would be compli-cated if he shoots me . |
| 18 | I only came across the 1936 front page because it was hanging framed on the right-hand wall of old Pierre Gemayel 's office when I went to talk to him in the summer of 1982 in east Beirut . |
| 19 | Once a man she 'd never met before , a man called Peter who did n't seem to have a wife , kept dancing with her in the Godsons ' house , holding her very close , in a way that quite upset her and yet was pleasurable . |
| 20 | This time Freddie elected to sit with her in the front of the car . |
| 21 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 23 | Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack . |
| 24 | Kopyion had sat opposite him in the hovercar , contemplating the momentous events unravelling on the planet . |
| 25 | He had sat with her in the long dark evenings , had made sure she ate at mealtimes . |
| 26 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 27 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 28 | I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself . |
| 29 | Her mother had stopped crocheting , so Jessie said , and was in the sitting-room going through a catalogue of curtain material for yet another change at the windows and had decided firmly against anything resembling Nottingham Lace ; her mind was now set on drapes with pelmets , so Jessie had whispered to her in the back shop a short while ago . |
| 30 | Maria stood there , hating him , but not for anything he had done to her in the past . |