Example sentences of "[vb past] in a [noun] [unc] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plastic explosive burns quietly , as I once demonstrated in an admiral 's ashtray , believing the stuff to be an enemy incendiary compound . |
| 2 | It arrived five minutes later when Glenn Hunter superbly headed in a Burrows ' corner . |
| 3 | In contrast to the ‘ Community approach ’ leading eventually to full union , General de Gaulle believed in a Europe des Patries , that is a Europe of nation-states . |
| 4 | She was attacked as she played in a children 's playground as she bent down to stroke a dog tied to a post it attacked her . |
| 5 | is it , is it he can answer that question , is it he 's job to look in what er , happened in a year 's time . |
| 6 | The Kylie and Jason ‘ Are they or are n't they in love ? ’ riddle reached its most bewildering moment in September 1988 when she claimed in a woman 's magazine that … |
| 7 | A LOVELORN man hid in a woman 's attic for three days and recorded her every move on video after she spurned his advances at work . |
| 8 | An old man in a long overcoat rummaged in a hotel 's bins . |
| 9 | Next Sunday we met in a Deacon 's house . |
| 10 | When Zuwaya held a wedding or a funeral , when men met in a shaikh 's house to discuss reprisals or bloodwealth , they could say to themselves , ‘ This is how we have always done things . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Will you forget me ? ’ he asked in an adult 's voice . |
| 12 | The crystal missile impacted in a skater 's chest , and erupted . |
| 13 | He often worked in a friend 's studio , and took his meals at Rosalie 's where he peeled potatoes or washed up to pay for the meals . |
| 14 | Uncle Bill 's best pal was Bernard Leslie , who worked in a barber 's shop at Goldenacre . |
| 15 | On leaving school , he worked in a chemist 's shop and he later qualified as an apothecary ( LSA ) in 1886 . |
| 16 | Rosie worked in a chemist 's shop , she heard , and was a nice wee thing , if rather young , and it was not serious . |
| 17 | Yeah , but would n't that make it possible to take that out , and then it would n't make sense , 'cos it would say , as I missed the train which went in an hour 's time if you put another comma , 'cos if you , if you put two commas you could n't take it out . |
| 18 | He sang in a child 's voice that was beginning to break , so that it was tuneless , the register awkward , the pitch uncertain . |
| 19 | In another case where an applicant had been refused any access to accounts , the Commissioner 's assistance resulted in a solicitor 's letter being sent to the union . |
| 20 | Her gran 's lips disappeared in a cat 's cradle of lines , her etched brow crumpled a tangled web over her eyes . |
| 21 | ‘ I know , ’ he said , and seemed to look at her as if to gauge how love looked in a person 's eyes . |
| 22 | A Welsh farming family called an aunt by marriage ‘ granny ; ’ a Grantham print manager 's family took in a grandfather 's cousin ‘ too old to live alone ’ who just ‘ spent her time knitting ’ and ‘ seemed something like a granny but she was n't . ’ |
| 23 | In the field a bit clinked in a horse 's mouth , a saddle creaked under the rider 's weight . |
| 24 | He appeared in a children 's BBC Jackanory playhouse production of the Prattling Princess in which he played Prince Hugo . |
| 25 | ‘ which carried obligatory lamps ’ can be proved by describing which obligatory lamps it carried in a witness 's statement . |
| 26 | A businessman commenting on an experience he had in a stockbroker 's office in London when " I saw a beam of light between me and my eyes " commented , Although I was n't a particularly religious person , I realised immediately that this must be the thing that people call God . |
| 27 | We stopped and sheltered in a farmer 's barn for the night and the following morning , misty as ever , did little to assuage my suspicions . |
| 28 | Even Hennessy was taken by surprise at the abrupt departure , and he stood in a moment 's confusion before turning and hurrying out . |