Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 2 | A man dragged her into an alleyway , and attacked her in a nearby churchyard . |
| 3 | She hoped he would approve of her smart black dress and the way she had pulled her hair back from her face and pinned it in a classical knot at the back of her head . |
| 4 | I think if you got maybe a twenty five year old who came to your school for a week and got you in a small group and talked about it , it would be great on a one to one basis . |
| 5 | She took off everything that could identify her , and stowed it in the bottom layer of her jewellery box . |
| 6 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |
| 7 | The figure turned stiffly and fixed them in a sightless gaze . |
| 8 | He felt for Thomas 's hand and wrung it in the momentary blindness after the torch was quenched against the rock . |
| 9 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 10 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He won East Bristol in 1900 and retained it in the general elections of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They bound Guthlac ‘ in all his limbs … and brought him to the black fen , and threw and sank him in the muddy waters ’ . |
| 15 | Lord Palmerston sent for me and told me in a jaunty way that he would have nothing to do with this Gothic style , and that though he did not want to disturb my appointment he must insist on my making a design in the Italian style which he felt sure I could do as well as the other . |
| 16 | Blinked a few times instead and told him in a croaky voice that I 'd met Erica Upton twice and had sat next to her at dinner . |
| 17 | Mr Brandreth met with Mr Hanley and told him in no uncertain terms that the people of Chester were far from happy with the decision to go to Glasgow . |
| 18 | I drove it straight round the corner and installed it in a costly carpark on Lexington and Forty-Third . |
| 19 | He had brought his telescope ashore with him and mounted it in the little dormer window high up under the eaves of the steep-pitched east-facing gable of his house . |
| 20 | As they longed for a spiritual assurance of Christ 's presence and received it in the Holy Spirit which literally inspired in them knowledge and love of God so the meditator may grow in inner spiritual knowledge ( c.33 , 36 ) . |
| 21 | Miller quoted Mark Catesby , who always packed dry seeds in paper and sealed them in a dry gourd shell . |
| 22 | Later on Marcus came in , took a bag from inside the noise-maker and dropped it in a large crackling black bag . |
| 23 | He lifted it up and dropped it in the white plastic bag which lines the litter bin . |
| 24 | Here Ashley designed her tiles , painted and fired them in a small kiln . |
| 25 | Sometimes he immediately pounced upon whatever I said and showed me in a psychoanalytical way how wrong I was , and how right he was . |
| 26 | Once they took one away from the woodpile and hid it in the stable and the mother searched everywhere , growing more and more distressed . |
| 27 | She could n't abide the thought of it , sitting there grinning , it gave her bad dreams she said , so she took it one morning and hid it in the stable loft . |
| 28 | He screwed the note up and threw it in the general direction of the wastepaper basket . |
| 29 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |
| 30 | They were tremendous , and outplayed us in the first half . |