Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was about four feet away when his foot caught in the electric flex he was dragging and he stumbled forward off balance . |
| 2 | If she believed in the Prime Mover she would be praying . |
| 3 | Danish defender Bjorn Kristensen hit the second-half equaliser that gave Kevin Keegan 's side a point they hardly deserved in the Anglo-Italian Cup they won when it was last staged 19 years ago . |
| 4 | Fascinated and repelled in the same moment she continued to watch the macabre spectacle despite herself , her lips parted , her eyes bright . |
| 5 | Well I 'll be quite honest with you , when I came in the other day you had a couple and I 'm amazed that you 've still got them . |
| 6 | There had been a moment in his career , as he declared in the interesting preface he wrote to Josef Pieper 's Leisure the Basis of Culture and as Brand Blanshard has retailed in the Eliot Anniversary Issue of The Southern Review ( 1985 ) , ( ‘ Eliot at Oxford ’ ) , when , after a good deal of philosophical study , lie had decided to renounce the subject as such . |
| 7 | Though the massive reclamation of the eastern Fenlands began in the seventeenth century it was not entirely successful . |
| 8 | By the time Gabriel and he met in the late afternoon they knew that Rose had probably never got home the night before . |
| 9 | But my boss is a resilient character and when we met in the late afternoon he was bursting with his old spirit . |
| 10 | Even when they worked in the same industry they were often employed in quite different processes : in copper mining for example at the surface not underground , and were separately waged . |
| 11 | Everywhere he went in the tiny house he saw her : sitting at the table , sewing , on her knees , blackleading the grate , laughing at him as she handed him his cup of tea or coffee , and holding up the doll she had dressed for him to admire . |
| 12 | I remember we saw in the other shop It happened again . |
| 13 | Whiteley wrote that the significance of these papers lay in the valuable service they performed of establishing Swahili as a means of communication in printed form . |
| 14 | The main attraction of the Copernican theory lay in the neat way it explained a number of features of planetary motion , which could be explained in the rival Ptolemaic theory only in an unattractive , artificial way . |
| 15 | So if the revenue had refused in the exercise of their discretion to make the repayment they did in the present case I am of opinion that in the absence of any other remedy it would have been open to Woolwich to claim repayment in proceedings for judicial review , and there would appear to be no reason why such proceedings would not have been successful . |
| 16 | Sun said in the first half it shipped 28,000 Sparcstation 10s including 1,500 Model 41s . |
| 17 | As he stood in the drizzling rain he welcomed it : the contrast in temperature was huge compared with Helsinki . |
| 18 | Suddenly , a girl aged about 16 walked up from one of the scattered houses in the village and stood in the same spot he intended to use for his photography . |
| 19 | As I sat in the hot taxi I could see Balvinder Singh haggling with one of the healers . |