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Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.

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1	Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room .
2	In addition , retinoic acid is insoluble in water and so would remain where we put it in the limb for some time ; this was important because we already knew that to exert its effect the grafted polarizing region needed more than 12 hours .
3	At these roadshows , we introduced the Group 's Vision and Mission Statement — where we see ourselves in the future and the principals by which we intend to conduct our business .
4	He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner .
5	The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar .
6	Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been .
7	Erm I 'm always overjoyed when people say things like that to me , that you 've just said , er but I think I understand acting more than I understand anything in the world .
8	‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot .
9	‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do .
10	‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin .
11	Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’
12	‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled .
13	The sister was n't in her office when she went back , so she left it in the middle of the desk : ‘ Miss Carolyn Tanner , care of Clare ’ .
14	‘ So you married him in the end , did you ? ’
15	But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things .
16	Although we know them in the UK as mushroom corals , the common name of this species is something of a misnomer .
17	No sooner are we out of Eden than we find ourselves in a field stained with a brother 's blood ( 4.1–16 ) .
18	We needed to go faster so we left him in a field , alive or dead .
19	‘ So we kept it in the family , ’ he said .
20	she said no , Jean said oh I ca n't walk that , have a bloody heart attack she says , so they put her in a trolley
21	’ So they kept us in a few days .
22	‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles .
23	To make him need her more than he needed anything in the whole of Chung Kuo .
24	I WAS more startled at the amount Mr Lamont was allowed to run up on his card rather than his doing it in the first place .
25	He was mad with anger and jealousy , so he locked her in the tower , with only a spinning-wheel for company .
26	And said , so it 's completely anonymous and all that and he said oh I ca n't be bothered to send that in , so he chucked it in the bin and they phoned him up and said why have n't you sent your form in ?
27	Fortunately , one of her friends had done a first aid course so he put her in the recovery position and cleared her airways , then gave her the kiss of life .
28	But as all the figures were multiplied by a factor of ten , the area was too great to be enclosed in the Mediterranean , so he placed it in the Atlantic ; and the date was put back into remote antiquity , thousands of years too early .
29	Once he read something in a paper about Bella ; she seemed to have done rather well .
30	Best of all , his work would take on a new virility once he rooted himself in the earth and responded to what he called its ‘ music ’ , experiencing its moods as ‘ symphonic , dramatic ’ .