Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we got through it in the end and their happy , and I 'm happy ! |
| 2 | Something made for him in the darkness and struck him a violent blow just under the knee . |
| 3 | I read about it in the paper today |
| 4 | ‘ Honest , I 'd never seen 'im before , I just bumped into 'im in the fog and it made me sprain me ankle . |
| 5 | He was one of 4 youths who attacked jogger , Paul Lanighan because he accidently bumped into them in the street . |
| 6 | Iron Josh beckoned him down , and Denis knelt beside him in the cart . |
| 7 | Everyone deferred to him in the casting of lots , and after he had tossed his white counter into the bowl which was placed in the centre of the chamber there was a wild scramble for precedence . |
| 8 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 9 | I am told by my Mother that I was a charming baby ; I used to he in the middle of the bed , kick my legs into the air and coo all day long . |
| 10 | This is another of Nic Picot 's tricks which he tried on me in the pub outside the Magic Circle . |
| 11 | He stopped by the gate and waited as she limped towards him in the darkness . |
| 12 | Moving the suspension of standing orders at the next meeting of Cork County Council , Councillor Gene Fitzgerald TD complained that the first council members heard of the planning decision was when they read of it in the morning paper . |
| 13 | He had thought he had not cared what became of him in the battle and he had thought that , when it was over , he would return to the Wolfwood and that the creatures amongst whom he had lived would return , also . |
| 14 | She did not see much of Florence as they roared through it in the jeep , just a muddled impression of large buildings and a broad dark green river , but as they began to drive up the steep , swooping hill to Fiesole , David 's friend said : |
| 15 | But nothing came of it in the end . |
| 16 | Carrie 's voice came to him in the darkness . |
| 17 | Picasso 's grand-daughter , Marina , is selling forty-eight of his works which came to her in the share-out among the family of his estate , and which are normally kept at the Geneva freeport warehouse . |
| 18 | No more than an hour passed before Jean-Claude came to me in the scullery and said he would be away for a few days . |
| 19 | I waited until you came to me in the hospital , I had to . |
| 20 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 21 | ‘ When they came to me in the summer , some of the shirts they offered were horrible . |
| 22 | She said er well they came to us in the interval and Con was just like , I thought she 'll call me when Sally has gone , Sally had their address , she 'd just you know , she was gon na be in there and Con said , look , did you look at that dress she said , whoever makes them ! |
| 23 | If he came on them in the darkness and they were … but she would n't … it was perfectly natural … she was eighteen and he … |
| 24 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 25 | In this guise , the computer 's role was to deliver machine-readable information that would supplement that normally found by students in printed form or received by them in the shape of lectures and seminars . |
| 26 | They all turned against him in the end did n't they ? |
| 27 | Childless women declaimed prayers to the Virgin in Latin while tears rolled down their faces ; and the parents of idiot children danced with them in the market place , swearing that their little brains had been set all to rights . |
| 28 | I did n't know and I hid from them in the semantics lab when they came to shrink me , and I sold myself to someone who did n't know how to do it . |
| 29 | 1 Make a list of the main things that happened to her in the story . |
| 30 | ‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine . |