Example sentences of "[vb past] in [pers pn] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very quickly this initial impression vanished as she recognised in him a dazzling personality , a person who had only to enter a room and the pace of things altered . |
| 2 | For his part , Petion was feeling no actual fear as such , but these trappings of a bygone age , which could represent good or evil depending on the choice of the individual worshipper , instilled in him a definite sense of wariness . |
| 3 | The terrible bitterness against his parents that had led to his writing a book meant to shock them had faded into indifference ; yet there lingered in him an understandable vindictiveness . |
| 4 | Her dear sweet silky head was a breath from Jay 's lips , but Jay sensed in her a wild creature that scares easily , and held her tongue , her lips , her sanctified body , in check . |
| 5 | I think they sensed in me a possible convert to their beliefs , merely because I was curious , or perhaps they genuinely liked me — I do n't know . |
| 6 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |
| 7 | Jean-Claude saw in me an exotic combination of youth and money . |
| 8 | It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem . |
| 9 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 10 | Startled , she looked up at him , met his eyes , and saw in them a searching expression that made her heart jerk in astonishment . |
| 11 | They saw in it a narrative paradigm which offered the possibility of meaning in their individual experience to all men . |
| 12 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 13 | Although I 'm not especially interested in food , and would never drive more than ten miles for any culinary feast , the lunch was so perfect , so many times better than anything we ever get at home , that it induced in me an unlikely surge of ecstasy . |