Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 2 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 3 | He made me dress in erotic underwear and to dress as his sex slave . |
| 4 | This made me feel in later life that I was very unattractive , because I had had so many negative thoughts about my appearance earlier in my life . |
| 5 | And onto ou round Australia and that and I mentioned I started in New Foundland , yes . |
| 6 | He made his worst start for years , found himself jammed in fourth place and then thought his race for the title might be over when a warning light flickered in the cockpit of the 200mph Renault-Williams . |
| 7 | Yet while his wife slept one afternoon he found himself looking in cardboard boxes in the attic for blackout curtains which he remembered from the War . |
| 8 | The fired guitarist did not mope and soon found himself playing in two Leeds groups , U.V And The Free Radicals and The Chorus . |
| 9 | Charlie found himself waiting in another queue before coming face to face with the sergeant again . |
| 10 | Even when Bevin as British foreign secretary speedily found himself entangled in tough disputes with the USSR , this did not lead him to follow Churchill 's line that Britain had of necessity to work as closely as possible with the United States . |
| 11 | However , our experience was that the very week that our new church planting team began to meet , with such rosy hopes , a violent row between two families occurred which resulted in one couple leaving the team and the church . |
| 12 | With a fortnight to go before Spain 's general election , the ruling Socialist party found itself embroiled in more accusations of financial irregularities , this time involving the financing of its referendum campaign in 1986 to keep Spain in NATO . |
| 13 | Perhaps those artists mentioned who worked in several ways — like Hartley or Guston or Morris — will be shown in a manner that suggests some of the aesthetic connective tissue that is otherwise ignored , but if they are represented only by their signature work a great deal will be missing . |
| 14 | Lindsey sensed him tensing , then found herself watching in rapt fascination as his mouth descended again . |
| 15 | The visiting officer found him living in one room which was almost entirely filled by a double bed . |
| 16 | The Royal College of Physicians and similar organisations overseas have studied alternative allergy and found it wanting in scientific credibility and clinical usefulness . |
| 17 | Heroes of sports arenas in their own country now found themselves working in small halls to audiences of 100–150 people . |
| 18 | As the war ended he got himself married in Long Ditton , Surrey , to a girl named Madeline Fowler , daughter of George Fowler , a traffic manager . |
| 19 | The impetus which drove them to expand in all directions from this base is not fully explained . |
| 20 | All those to , yeah well I told you to put in this morning . |
| 21 | Told him to look in any time — just to walk in , sit down , take his shoes off , and make himself at home ! |
| 22 | She thought more about losing the coal to Mrs Phipps than about Granny , it seemed to me then , but I expect it was the shock that caused her to react in that way . |
| 23 | While one interviewee described it as meeting monthly ( at least in the early stages of the project ) , the chairperson recalled it meeting in full committee on only a handful of occasions , with the bulk of the work being undertaken by individual members in liaison with the academic and pastoral divisions they represented . |
| 24 | It was the ICF who realised that looking casual allowed them to travel in large numbers and remain undetected by the police . |
| 25 | ‘ Who allowed you to sleep in this room ? |
| 26 | Winnie allowed herself to indulge in happy daydreams for some five minutes , and then pulled herself together sharply . |
| 27 | After two years he moved to Border Television in Carlisle where being part of a small team allowed him to dabble in all areas of production . |
| 28 | Bangor finally shook themselves to run in three tries , helped enormously by some comical Collegians defending . |
| 29 | Bennett , on the other hand , had my absolute loyalty and to witness him in action led one to understand in later years what Lord Reith — founder Director of the BBC — meant when he said " I was never fully stretched " . |
| 30 | They paused halfway up and , straining her ears , she heard them conferring in low tones but was quite unable to hear what was said . |