Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd locked him in a dirty little hole with a bed you would n't put a dog under . |
| 2 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 3 | Times I 'd lie in my bed , late at night , and shudder to think my Jake 'd wedded her in a Christian church . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd spotted them in a second-hand shop and immediately began saving feverishly to make them mine before anyone else got their hands on them . |
| 5 | The next day she 'd discovered his whereabouts from Klein , who 'd warned her in no uncertain manner that John Zacharias was bad news for tender hearts . |
| 6 | Arguably , Nathalie Sarraute 's career benefited enormously from Sartre 's famous preface to her first novel , Portrait d'un inconnu ( 1947 ) , which he claimed placed her in the alternative tradition of the ‘ anti-roman ’ . |
| 7 | The conclusion of the report was that the resilience and vigour of adult education in the county during the previous twenty years had placed it in a good position to consolidate earlier effort and made HMI confident that further development in the provision of liberal adult education would build on the foundation of the established tradition of co-operative endeavour between the LEAs and the Responsible Bodies . |
| 8 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 9 | It was just this power and seriousness that had fascinated her in the first place . |
| 10 | Its windows and doors had been sealed up with breeze-blocks but the Koranic inscription beneath the roof remained and someone had painted it in the past ten years . |
| 11 | Daphne Rye once again had pointed him in the right direction . |
| 12 | players had received it in the past two years as well , now four times overall since it was inaugurated in 1985 . |
| 13 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 14 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 15 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 16 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |
| 17 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 18 | Her limbs were graceful , her whole body proportioned like that of a young goddess ; as for her breasts , an infatuated young man who had seen her in a small part at Robert 's Shield Theatre wrote her a letter quoting the Song of Solomon at length : Asshe threatened to horsewhip him . |
| 19 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
| 20 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 21 | A little better ; he had seen her in a few more moods , some higher , some lower . |
| 22 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 23 | The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear . |
| 24 | Freya 's letter looked as though she had written it in a great hurry : reams and reams of handwritten scrawl , with sentences crawling up the side of the page and ideas jumping all over the place . |
| 25 | They had bought them in the local sex shop in the hope of saving the money they would normally spend on E. So what were they like ? |
| 26 | Frankie Howerd had bought it in the early Seventies . |
| 27 | She had told him in no uncertain terms , on more than one occasion , that she wanted no more to do with him . |
| 28 | In fact , he had told her in no uncertain terms to go forth and multiply . |
| 29 | Her father had told her in no uncertain terms that she 'd lost her mind . |
| 30 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |