Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [noun] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Well the parrot he sort of came in the Boar War he did he sort of flitted on my shoulder and I 've been lumbered with him ever since and nobody seems to want him . |
2 | When these wagons arrived in the Underframe Shop they were unloaded at the required points or areas by hand-operated overhead travelling cranes in the ancillary bays , adjacent to the main workshop area . |
3 | Rice , 6ft 2in of speed and elegance , on Sunday hauled in the touchdown catch he needed to equal the all-time record of 100 , held by former Seattle Seahawk Steve Largent . |
4 | Morse had never seen Mrs Marion Kemp , but from the marriage photograph that hung in the living room he realised that she must once have been quite a vivacious woman : dark , curly hair ; slim , firm figure ; and curiously impudent , puckish eyes . |
5 | When he died in the plane crash I cried all day . |
6 | The 55-year-old family man who ran a butcher 's shop in Bridge Street , died in the Pulsar plane he had built . |
7 | They all thought that the value of studying the course lay in the career opportunities it opened up — what Gibbs et al. |
8 | And when presently she appeared in the kitchen doorway she said , ‘ I did n't know you were here , Peggy . ’ |
9 | ‘ Why do n't you , ’ she said in the ultra-kind voice she reserved for very recalcitrant children , ‘ get out , put some branches or stones or something under the wheels , then start pushing ? |
10 | When she stayed in the Berry chalet she slept on the living-room sofa . |
11 | If they stayed in the war zone they would face almost certain death . |
12 | Then when I came near the broken house and stood in the moon shadow I could hear and see nothing . |
13 | It seemed a shame that while he stood in the Chuckwagon queue he called his girlfriend ‘ Tray ’ . |