Example sentences of "in [art] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.

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1 A waitress in the hotel said they all remembered the day of the big Piper Alpha rig disaster ‘ in the same way that we remembered where we were when Kennedy was shot ’ .
2 He went there to Dalby Forest one day in the afternoon loaded them all up and set off for Wales .
3 Signe said , ‘ That man who just flew off in the aeroplane taught me some words of Latin . ’
4 While he was still searching for the right question to ask , the sound of a key in the padlock made them both jump .
5 The sight of Peng Yu-wei in the water told her that .
6 The matrons with their marked brows , hooped earrings and prominent noses had hardly altered , though the scarlet and mulberry cloaks painted in the tombs had vanished from all but the youngest and luckiest women among Davide 's kin , for a single death in the family charred them all , turning young and old into sable-winged crow-women — in churches , at the threshing , at the well , as if flocking in the turned field .
7 He wrapped me in a warm coat and placing me in the car took me several miles over the moor .
8 Nothing in the world caused him such dismay , such instant feelings of antagonism , as catching sight of any institution whatsoever …
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