Example sentences of "[vb past] in [coord] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength .
2 ‘ Everybody came in and told her all their stories .
3 Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams .
4 Somebody gave him a brush and paints one time and he started in and got it better than any of them , oh my word he did .
5 I went in and got it all .
6 ‘ Who 'd get the blame , I ask you , if some young big-head like him got larking about in that lot , and the whole thing caved in and buried him alive ?
7 The FO chap knew all about it , of course , and any time things looked like coming off the boil he dived in and assured us this could be the biggest coup since the Zimmerman telegram .
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