Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 2 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | Our debate on this intended insult by the French was summarily ended : a wand-bearing chamberlain told us to assemble in the great hall below for the rare privilege of an audience with His Most Christian Majesty . |
| 4 | Walking across to her , she turned her to look in the full-length mirror . |
| 5 | We could have catered for ourselves , but preferred the no-hassle option of half board which allowed us to indulge in the superb hot and cold buffet dinner provided with free wine . |
| 6 | Where others were most sharply conscious of the crisis posed for theology by the development of modern culture and the change in our self-awareness , he saw the real crisis as lying in the inability of theology to do justice to its object , and called it to look in the opposite direction from that it had been taking . |
| 7 | This qualified her to play in the Scottish final at the new course at Westerwood , Cumbernauld . |
| 8 | After six years his father sent him to work in the bonded tea house of Sanderson Fox in London , to broaden his experience . |
| 9 | It introduced him to enlightened learning and a sophisticated life of foreign travel , and enabled him to move in the scientific circles centred round Sir Charles Cavendish . |
| 10 | At the end of each day , as he had done since the beginning of the autumn , Robert took him home , where Mr and Mrs Wilson petted him , fed him , and put him to sleep in the spare bedroom as if he were their own son . |
| 11 | I nursed my damaged finger , and showed it to anyone who wanted me to join in the rough stuff . |
| 12 | a star and wanted us to share in the good luck . |