Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 2 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 3 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 4 | What cases like these show is not just that reform measures are often ineffectual , it is that — as with word meanings — their reception and transmission can not be controlled by the people , in this case the feminists , who proposed them in the first place . |
| 5 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 6 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 8 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 9 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 10 | Wolves overtook them in the first division table during the week . |
| 11 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 12 | But Garvey , 40 , has brought a private prosecution against Carr , 33 , alleging Carr assaulted him in the same incident in Middlesbrough Town Hall in October . |
| 13 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 14 | On that occasion , Richard Dorment , a critic not noted for exaggeration , described him in The Daily Telegraph as the most inventive sculptor since Picasso , and this new exhibition promises to be one of the season 's notable achievements . |
| 15 | His first book , the collection of stories entitled Goodbye , Columbus , fixed him in the popular mind , from 1959 , as an ‘ enemy of the Jews ’ — a condition aggravated by the onanistic bravura and scandalous mad success of the grotesquely imaginative Portnoy 's Complaint ( 1969 ) , and not much improved in recent years by The Counterlife ( 1987 ) , in which various escapes from Jewish America , including an escape to Israel , are projected , and in which Zuckerman and his dentist brother Henry are both imagined to have ailing hearts and to undertake gruesome surgery in order to restore the sexual potency suspended by their medication . |
| 16 | A change to teaching English to Italian children brought worse problems with ‘ il Signor Conte ’ , and a period married to a sisal farmer in Portuguese East Africa found her in the worst place on God 's earth . |
| 17 | The sixteenth-century writers who condemned depopulation looked for a depopulator , and found him in the enclosing landlord , who found that stock , -rearing was more profitable than corn-growing . |
| 18 | ‘ Rodney Martin beat him in the 1991 World Championship and I 've beaten Martin , so anything is possible , ’ he said . |
| 19 | If he races on Saturday New Level will line up against the much fancied Ringa Hustle and the dog which beat him in the last round , Apres Soleil , which is on offer at 80–1 . |
| 20 | Wilson 's principal domestic fault was his kindness in bestowing benefits on friends , and indeed on anyone who approached him in the appropriate fashion , and certainly through Marcia Williams . |
| 21 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 22 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 23 | McIllvanney was a Protestant bully from the Shankill Road in Belfast , who had learned his thuggery in the hard school of Northern Ireland 's prejudices , honed it in the British army , and now put it to whatever good use he wanted in the Bahamas . |
| 24 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 25 | ‘ I went for a net to get it out and , to my amazement , found it in the tight embrace of a frog . |
| 26 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 27 | She was once a Tory activist , but told me in the first week of the campaign she had lost faith . |
| 28 | It was difficult to remember the route , but Lowell 's van in the bottom field signposted them in the right direction . |
| 29 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
| 30 | As mentioned earlier , it is possible to treat certain phobias ( although not all ) by hypnosis without ever having to discover what caused them in the first place , and for some patients this is all they require . |