Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 2 | and criticizing the royal family , we have admired and criticized them in the course of the last half hour . |
| 3 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 4 | He could have slit our throats for us then and there and thrown us in the canal , likely as not . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've bought you a safety seat and fitted it in the back . ’ |