Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb infin] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week .
2 Dry clash 'd his harness in the icy caves
3 Miss Bruce 's distaste for innovation made itself manifest in the dreary proposals served up to the Conservative and Labour governments in the seventies — whenever a request for names for public duties arrived in her in-tray , the same roll-call of has-beens fell out of her out-tray .
4 He made one tour in the early 1830s , when already ill and enfeebled .
5 Once , however , Master threw the stick and Sergeant went to retrieve it , and the dog heard something rustle in the long reeds that grew beside the canal .
6 She took him into the living-room and made him sit in the black leather armchair .
7 Instead she made him stop in the next street ; she did n't want Uncle Vernon storming up the basement steps and putting his oar in .
8 Now erm did you stay in the same school or ?
9 ‘ What kind of parachutes did you use in the British Army ? ’
10 Did you look in the other one , the nineteen ninety edition ?
11 Populations evolved separately in each of these pools , and only when the water rose again did they re-convene in the same lake .
12 How did it develop in the sixties ?
13 Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ?
14 How much did he earn in the fourth week ?
15 now just whom did he know in the Irish organizations ?
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