Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Chicago airport , I filled in a ‘ missing baggage ’ form and set off to my hotel , minus socks , tights , knickers and shoes , except for the ones I was wearing . |
| 2 | ‘ I filled in a questionnaire giving details of my previous lender and my bank . |
| 3 | Diffidently , I filled in the form : 40,000 mile service , please . |
| 4 | I filled in the form with this request instead of a claim for money , although I did n't have much hope that anything would happen . |
| 5 | I filled in the rest of that day by pretending to be busy with the audit . |
| 6 | When I reached the spot , I breathed in the herb 's mint/ammonia vapours and stared over the landscape . |
| 7 | Knowing this to be his likely mood when I brought in the tea yesterday afternoon , and being aware of his general propensity to talk with me in a bantering tone at such moments , it would certainly have been wiser not to have mentioned Miss Kenton at all . |
| 8 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 9 | " There you go , girl , " I said at the other end , when I brought in the final batch . |
| 10 | Erm I brought in the old flurry tape , I 've I 've taped I taped our when you 've read my play for me , I erm I taped it and I made a copy for Dave I you know , erm Cybil makes a good effort in that so eventually I 'll lend you the tape . |
| 11 | She sucked in a steadying gulp of air , letting it go with little huffing sounds before she walked on and turned into the lane . |
| 12 | She sucked in a double-lungful of air and screamed , but not in pain . |
| 13 | She sucked in a deep breath then looked up , squeezing her eyelids tightly together as if to clear the fuzziness which clouded her vision . |
| 14 | Julie 's hand was shaking as she pushed the key into the ignition but she sucked in a deep breath and started the car , checking her rear-view mirror both for approaching traffic and , more particularly , for that Granada . |
| 15 | A board creaked beneath her feet and she sucked in a startled breath . |
| 16 | She sucked in a deep breath . |
| 17 | She sucked in a breath . |
| 18 | Her heart gave a strange flip inside her ribcage , and she sucked in a deep breath to steady herself . |
| 19 | She sucked in a huge breath , then let it out slowly again . |
| 20 | old lady — avid for a cigarette , ‘ She sucked in the smoke … like a baby having its bottle . ’ ; |
| 21 | The cross-examination which followed was alarming , and interspersed with words sounding like hepatitis and malaria as she filled in a long questionnaire with a series of Niets and Das . |
| 22 | As she filled in the forms for him , the girl in Despatch , big and black and at last a friendly face , told him she was from Mississippi , and sure as hell she hated Greeks , Athens , moussaka and retsina . |
| 23 | The poser 's cafe had free newspapers and she filled in the crosswords shamelessly , was even miffed if someone else had got there first , especially with a blue Biro : Alex used a black Biro for crosswords . |
| 24 | In the second column , she filled in the address Bridget had just given her — Cherry Cottage , Buckland Dinham , Somerset . |
| 25 | She filled in the columns next to Veronica 's name , and stared thoughtfully at the piece of paper . |
| 26 | In my railway days , if you wanted a Privilege Ticket , you filled in a form to obtain a form , filled in by a clerk , which you presented to a booking clerk . |
| 27 | And when you wanted to buy something like a three piece suite , you went to somewhere like Bentalls and they took you into a little room , soon as you said to the man well I want to buy this on hire purchase and you went in to a little room and the man sat down and you filled in a long form . |
| 28 | He wonders if you filled in the forms correctly . ’ |
| 29 | Erm you had a statement of Barbara 's , if it was in there , it was planned so that you crew can work harder erm although you filled in the bonus question well , the there was a tend dangerous tendency for you be sucked in to go into the bonus and I think you did well to say yeah well we 'd better walk along to that so you held out which was nice because if I had if you had n't tackled that you might have been shown the door once you 'd gone through that . |
| 30 | Er , if you can remember at school working out equations , as long as you filled in the , the right bits in the right place , you got the right answer . |