Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin . |
| 2 | What was it his girl friend , Sandy Riverton , had said when she called him in the middle of the night ? |
| 3 | Lisabeth reluctantly agreed after I put her in charge of phoning the hospital for twice-daily reports , which was exactly the sort of thing she liked to take charge of . |
| 4 | I had nothing further to do with Sally but she did n't seem to be bothered when I passed her in the street without speaking . |
| 5 | Dvorak 's ‘ American ’ was so called because he composed it in the United States in 1893 , the year when his ‘ New World ’ symphony was first performed , both great works deriving from the same inspiration . |
| 6 | And help yourself to the , I 'm sad to say that that has curdled since I put it in the jug , do you want me to change it ? |
| 7 | Asked if he recognised anybody in court of that description , Loxton replied , ‘ Yes sir , that is the gentleman sitting over there . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Spotty backs are caused when grease glands become blocked as we wrap ourselves in man-made fibres that inhibit air circulation . |
| 9 | I got charged when I did it in Newmarket . |
| 10 | She was carrying a fresh tray of ice ; the cubes popped when she put them in the drinks . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't know for sure yet , but there wo n't be any European corporate jobs left after we centralise everything in Detroit . |
| 12 | Colour Sgt Oram 's Queen 's Gallantry Medal was awarded after he placed himself in the firing line time and time again saving the lives of others . |
| 13 | Colour Sgt Oram 's Queen 's Gallantry Medal , was awarded after he placed himself in the firing line time and time again saving the lives of others . |
| 14 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 15 | The Frenchman 's only other classic win came in the Bordeaux-Paris race in 1983 , a year before his career was endangered after he shot himself in the hand while hunting . |
| 16 | This is called dynamic storage allocation because the variables of type PERSON are created as we need them in the program . |
| 17 | Voters can cast their votes in the second ballot in the light of that knowledge , and will be similarly well informed before they cast them in the third and fourth . |