Example sentences of "in [adj] [art] [noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In half an hour she felt a lot better , but I knew now it would be my job to see her safely down to the hut . |
| 2 | First , I wanted to see the Castle of Zenda and in half an hour I had climbed the hill to it . |
| 3 | Well that 's a , that 's a thing of that particular day , at that time th th and life erm and then they get what they call , they bought a steam hopper , so the steam hopper would say , could get to sea quicker in half the time the dumb hoppers could and so we were rotating all the time , there used to be one dumb hopper go to sea , one steam hopper and we 'd be loading the other dumb hopper and then th course the steam hopper would be back in half the time we 'd that and that 's how we rotate , day to day . |
| 4 | We were in such a state we decided to swallow what seemed the bitter pill of Thatcherism . |
| 5 | ‘ They reckoned it was haunted and no one would buy it , and in the end it got in such a state they got the council to pull it down . |
| 6 | In fact , when he drove us home he was in such a state I had to get out of the van . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sure ! ’ he replied in such a way it made Maggie giggle again . |
| 8 | ‘ I was in such a fury I hung up . |
| 9 | Miss Andrews did not invite me to order that the sum should be paid out to Crossman Block on terms that they should not part with it without a further order of the court ; in such an event she accepted that it would be better that the sum should remain in court . |
| 10 | This is apparent in all the advice he gave to discontented monks . |
| 11 | Why , in all the time she 'd known him he had never said the words . |
| 12 | In all the time she had been with her Paula had never seen her so angry . |
| 13 | In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before . |
| 14 | Escaping from under the pillow on the bed was the hem of a caftan , the soft kind he 'd slept in all the time I 'd known him . |
| 15 | I do n't think that in all the time I 'd known Jessica , I 'd ever seen her cry . |
| 16 | She did n't look at him , not once , not in all the time it took to complete her task . |
| 17 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 18 | In all the time he had know Joe , he had never seen anyone else in his room ; indeed he had never seen him in company , except at the meetings of the IRB . |
| 19 | There was one good thing , though : in all the fuss I had n't had to apologize to Kezia . |
| 20 | When Meg arrived at Uppark as its first chatelaine in many a year she found all the original fabrics in place , but hanging , through neglect , ‘ like grey seaweed ’ . |
| 21 | I owe him much in this regard and shall always be grateful for the interest and encouragement he gave to me on his visits to our school , in particular the visit he paid only a year ago when he addressed my staff and helped them all by his understanding and the depth of his practical knowledge and experience . |
| 22 | Our descent was made in one-fifth the time it had taken us to climb to our record-breaking altitude . |
| 23 | Underwood 's position as England 's leading try-scorer , with 35 to his credit , has a two-fold RAF connection because when he scored against Ireland in 1990 the record he overtook had previously been held by another RAF pilot and winger , Cyril Lowe , who totalled 18 between 1913 and 1923 when winning 25 consecutive caps . |