Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she caught me now in the front hall she would waste a good ten minutes warning me that I was risking tuberculosis and a gastric ulcer by being too late to eat a proper meal quietly , and probably throw in the chances of my poisoning a patient with the wrong drug before the night was out through carelessness induced by my own lack of blood-sugar . |
| 2 | Turning first to the stroke , Mozart used it deliberately in the following three ways : ( 1 ) to indicate an accent without a staccato ; ( 1 ) to indicate a staccato with special emphasis of either accent or sharpness , ranging from hail to heavy rain ; ( 3 ) to mark a staccato , usually without special emphasis , that serves to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes . |
| 3 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
| 4 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 5 | ‘ Psst — Jack , ’ I hissed as he joined me damply in the breeze-filled tent . |
| 6 | Spotting the two journalists huddled together in conspiratorial conversation a few yards away , he hauled her off in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll see you at the office on Monday morning , ’ Damian told her as he walked her home in the hot , humid night to her own villa next door and cicadas buzzed metallically as they walked past the fountain . |
| 9 | His honest , square-jawed and faintly familiar face served him well in the real estate business . |
| 10 | Pound , following a polemical strategy which served him well in the short run ( but which later back-fired ) deliberately provoked the academic classicists of his day ; and his use of his sources , classical and other , was always both hasty and high-handed . |
| 11 | Ted and I discovered her once in the ripped-out kitchen running through a symphony of his noises like a proud mother reproducing the first words of a child . |
| 12 | I shall remember him for his magnificent work in the West Riding through many years , and for his naughty and teasing sense of humour which so often cheered us up in the dismal surroundings of the Hemsworth Division and places like that , and which one realised hid a most sensitive and affectionate personality . |
| 13 | John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink . |
| 14 | It 's us who untied you back in the Emerald Suite . |
| 15 | Little Chef tracked her down in the pink dusk at the bottom of the garden , with her arms round an apple tree , sobbing her heart out . |
| 16 | They hammed it up in the spectacular 17th century building unaware that smoke from the candles was blacking up the beautiful hand-painted ceiling . |
| 17 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 18 | I looked them up in the big dictionary my father had bought for me by mail order at the beginning of the year . |
| 19 | They twirled you around in the Gay Gordons at Ilkley with clammy hands . |
| 20 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 21 | I sent him right in the opposite direction . |
| 22 | Nutty stopped Midnight and brought him into the centre and Nails thought he was going to get a rest , but she immediately sent him off in the other direction . |
| 23 | Any way , Aunt Bessie brought her up in the little house built by her husband and brother-in-law which was near to South Stainmore . |
| 24 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 25 | This formalism has been extended to space-times with two space-like Killing vectors by Kitchingham ( 1984 ) , although he initially applied it only in the cosmological context . |
| 26 | He shook out the handkerchief and stuffed it back in the top pocket of his jacket . |
| 27 | Distillery made a bright start and Micky Boyle put them ahead in the early stages but Gregg beat keeper Robinson in a race for the ball to level the scores and soon afterwards put Omagh ahead with a right foot shot . |
| 28 | which I could n't find today did I not in the actual end approved version does it not say that I 've got the tape and people fixed |
| 29 | I want to know whether we 're going to be blushing when they put him up in the Foreign Ministry at a press conference and he spills . ’ |
| 30 | Some workers deliberately took less well-paid work because employers gave it out in the particular quantity they desired . |