Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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1 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
2 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
3 | It was then that he noticed Whitlock standing discreetly in the background . |
4 | As you 'd guess , most of ‘ Mexican R'n'B ’ was recorded live ( although Edgar did have to double on guitar when regular guitarist Ged Lynn went AWOL in the middle of recording ) . |
5 | She guessed Ben lived mostly in the kitchen , cooking neatly and painstakingly for himself . |
6 | Corbett allowed Ranulf to slouch sleepily in the saddle and waited for Dame Agatha to draw alongside him . |
7 | Dexter saw Blanche lean forward in the dimness , her eyes alert . |
8 | Out of the corner of her eye she saw Tweed glance again in the wing mirror . |
9 | Had IBM known back in the early 1980s what it knows now , it would have opened up its VM operating system , which also has its roots in development , but , coming from the button-down IBM world has many more security and management features than Unix started out with . |
10 | Poland 's official news agency PAP said Kohl flew home in the early afternoon . |