Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 2 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 3 | Th I got them in the electricity board , there three for sixty pence . |
| 4 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 5 | Their mother Carol found them in the burning room after hearing their screams . |
| 6 | They found her in the lavender field With her flowers as her final shield . |
| 7 | I found her in the back kitchen , standing over the chef who was rolling out pastry . |
| 8 | CALLOUS thieves dumped a baby in the street after they found her in the back seat of the car they had just stolen . |
| 9 | Then one day , before breakfast , I found her in the sitting room , and no longer had to rely on hearsay . |
| 10 | He found him in the station buffet slouched against the counter eating toasted tea-cakes . |
| 11 | Wimbledon champion Edberg lasted until Courier beat him in the quarter finals . |
| 12 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 13 | Meisel helped launch Linda Evangelista on to the road to superstardom , and it was Von Unwerth who captured Claudia Schiffer 's sex kitten quality and used it in the Guess advertising campaign which made the model famous . |
| 14 | A little hesitantly and with an ear cocked for approaching footsteps , she picked it up and tried it in the cupboard lock . |
| 15 | Farwaggi found it in the Herald Tribune . |
| 16 | ‘ I found it in the kitchen cupboard . |
| 17 | I found it in the TV room . |
| 18 | Found it in the Post Office . |
| 19 | Arriving home at half past twelve at night , Rachaela found it in the downstairs hall , another tenant had obviously taken it in . |
| 20 | I told them in the club bar that it was all down to my carefully structured pre-season training programme , but after last season 's relegation I have n't been near the ground since April ! |
| 21 | Greg drove them in the factory ambulance across the busy shop-floor , through one of the main entrances and across the grounds to the building that housed the canteen . |
| 22 | After going to his parents ' home at about 5am , Abram , who had earlier been out drinking in the nearby Valkaries pub , washed his blood stained trainers and dried them in the microwave oven , it was claimed . |
| 23 | She drew back , pressing herself into the upholstered chair , and surreptitiously studied him in the gilt mirror opposite . |
| 24 | Director Andrew V McLaglen , who directed him in The Way West in 1967 and who is no easy pushover for any temperamental actor , told me : |
| 25 | I slammed it in the car door . |
| 26 | Slammed it in the car door . |
| 27 | The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter . |
| 28 | When the meal was ready Ianthe ate it in the dining room , which opened on to the garden now piled with drifts of sycamore leaves . |
| 29 | Shortly Mala joined me in the control area losing no time in calling her FedPol friend , Chertro , to suggest that he contact Ardakke and offer his services . |
| 30 | Kate dug them in the meadow grass around the trees in the orchard ( which has only one fruiting tree ) , accompanied now by just two huge sentimental wolfhounds , Petra and Titan , which ‘ trundle about ’ following wherever she goes . |