Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 2 | Yes , yes , when Paddy tried to do ours in the flat need to use small screw drivers to make the , the . |
| 3 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |
| 4 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 5 | A second grenade went off under another vehicle as army explosives specialists tried to defuse it in the nearby New Lodge Road district … |
| 6 | At first sight , his praise of the Romanian regime seemed to put him in the same class as the ‘ Red Dean ’ , Hewlett Johnson . |
| 7 | The answers to these questions seemed to elude me in the small hours in dampest Solihull , my mind seemed to be preoccupied by the pain coming from my back , neck and yes my backside as well ! |
| 8 | I had a thought for no-one 's but your ears , That you were beautiful and that I strove To love you in the old high way of love , That it had all seemed happy … |
| 9 | Each one of them envisaged the scene where Hans Kramer , overwhelmed by their particular performance , begged to represent them in the international field . |
| 10 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 11 | I arranged to meet her in the tiny port at Tala-Tala where she was waiting for me . |
| 12 | If you went to see him in the '60s and you go and see him now , it 's pretty much the same ; he holds true and keeps his tradition . |
| 13 | Dorothy 's Wrinkled Stocking tearoom — named after broom-wielding battleaxe Norah Batty — has been overrun with trippers since BBC chiefs chose to feature it in the evergreen Pennine series . |
| 14 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
| 15 | By the end of the reign it was already falling off , and while Henry VI had much noble support for his coronation expedition in 1430–1 , those who continued to serve him in the French war in the years to come constituted a relatively small group of men . |
| 16 | ‘ Our children had to do it in the Cultural Revolutiion ten years later . |
| 17 | And it was and I who wanted to see it in the first place . |