Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The administrator 's greeting made everyone else in the room turn round to look . |
| 2 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 3 | Ivy caught me alone in the passage to say how much I must miss Donald . |
| 4 | Stubbly paused for a moment , then rocked forward on his heels and prodded me gently in the chest with a forefinger . |
| 5 | He prodded me playfully in the chest . |
| 6 | We also found ourselves together in the middle of the LA riots — two days of mayhem without a cop in sight — so I guess that brought us closer together ! |
| 7 | In the same year , the tsar involved himself personally in the foundation of the reformist journal Military Miscellany . |
| 8 | I mean it 's such a variety and it 's involved both face to face and direct sales that er er I know I stopped you right in the middle of your spiel there . |
| 9 | So I followed you over , and found you here in the cottage . |
| 10 | She had been one of the founder members of the Institutional Management Association in Yorkshire and later involved herself additionally in the Hotel & Catering Institute and always kept in contact with the professional association throughout her career . |
| 11 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 12 | One of the GIs called for a pen from his friend , caught it deftly in the air and planted his huge boot on the handlebar of Tony 's tricycle to write the address . |
| 13 | In that instant , I brought up my branch , so that he caught it right in the face . |
| 14 | Oliver coiled it slowly in the palm of his hand . |
| 15 | The other U-boat , brought from Norway , rests on the sands of Kiel Roads , close to the gloomy German naval museum ; and Chicago being rather far , we used it extensively in the making of our film . |
| 16 | The hurdles in the dissemination race are : H0 — ‘ seeing ’ — saw advertisement H1 ‘ getting ’ — obtained material H2 — ‘ browsing ’ — learned to drive the program H3 — ‘ trying ’ — used it once in the classroom H4 — ‘ using ’ — used it regularly in the classroom H5 — ‘ absorbing ’ — sustained use . |
| 17 | The hurdles in the dissemination race are : H0 — ‘ seeing ’ — saw advertisement H1 ‘ getting ’ — obtained material H2 — ‘ browsing ’ — learned to drive the program H3 — ‘ trying ’ — used it once in the classroom H4 — ‘ using ’ — used it regularly in the classroom H5 — ‘ absorbing ’ — sustained use . |
| 18 | Fifteen of the 27 CABx who were on-line , used Lawtel several times a week and seven used it daily in the period of piloting . |
| 19 | I found myself aground in the middle of the loch , firmly wedged on one such stump , and the only way out of the problem was to leap overboard and shove . |
| 20 | The secret of public speaking , he told me early in the campaign , is to address your audience right between the eyes . |
| 21 | I filed them neatly in the waste basket and helped myself to a cigarette . |
| 22 | ‘ Your father thought he recognised someone here in the hotel . ’ |
| 23 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 24 | The blue eyes studied her lazily in the mirror , and she had the strangest sensation he was toying with her as a cat would a mouse before a kill . |
| 25 | They surveyed it together in the dressing-table glass , heavy , thick stuff falling to her elbows , the colour of barley sugar . |
| 26 | We shared our resources for lunch — the girls ' picnic sandwiches and a cold pie and some fruit I had bought that morning — and ate it comfortably in the cottage kitchen , with its grandstand view of the bay . |
| 27 | She threw the mess after him and then thought , I 'm cracking up , and retrieved it and buried it deep in the refuse bin . |
| 28 | I buried myself deeper in the warmth of my own blanket and slept again . |
| 29 | ‘ As soon as some of our members received these letters , they threw them straight in the bin . |
| 30 | Staring at him in confusion , she hauled herself upright in the bed and pushed the pillow behind her . |