Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 2 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 3 | I mean , he 's respected me in a queer way . |
| 4 | He has educated me in the best sense of the word and I have trusted him as I think I would trust no one else of my own sex . |
| 5 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 6 | The Germans occupied them in the second world war , the Americans rebuilt them afterwards , and then the north-west Europeans came back in the shape of the European Community and its powerful money . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 8 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 9 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 10 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 11 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 12 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 13 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 14 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 15 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
| 16 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 17 | If I 'd only met you in the first place … before Bella , and … well … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have n't seen you in a long time . ’ |
| 19 | I have n't seen you in a long time . |
| 20 | The tight one will I 've never seen you in a tight dress though , you do n't let me see so I |
| 21 | A year later Joe had arrived , and the first doctor in the district had attended her in the first room of what was now a complete frame house . |
| 22 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |
| 23 | I 've seen him in a proper leather jacket . |
| 24 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 25 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 26 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 27 | Has she met him in the Three Pigeons ? |
| 28 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |
| 29 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
| 30 | Her limbs were graceful , her whole body proportioned like that of a young goddess ; as for her breasts , an infatuated young man who had seen her in a small part at Robert 's Shield Theatre wrote her a letter quoting the Song of Solomon at length : Asshe threatened to horsewhip him . |