Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eventually sold it in 1972 for £35 and bought an ancient wood-trimmed Morris Traveller , but no car as been as dear to us as Curtis . |
| 2 | Despite the Encomiast 's tale of how Cnut 's men , searching far and wide for a suitable wife , eventually found her in Normandy , it may be , as Keynes has argued , that Emma had remained in England throughout . |
| 3 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 4 | The good old pre-Taylor Report surge occured , I was flung about fifteen foot in the air , the soap box splintered , my dad acrobatically caught me in his teeth , and this big evil looking bloke got a nail in his leg from the now flattened soapbox.It was better than staying up late to watch an American Werewolf in London.The rest is history , and I 've been going ever since . |
| 5 | Rickie suddenly asked me in what purported to be a tone of serious enquiry . |
| 6 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 7 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 8 | if Derek and he went away last weekend he perhaps stuffed it in here but then he drops it in when he finds it |
| 9 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 10 | To her astonishment , he suddenly prodded her in the ribs . |
| 11 | Such intimacy as life with my mother entailed should cease with parturition , and since Syl so resembled her in his attitude to me I could see no end to my continued childhood . |
| 12 | Berwickshire was surveyed by John Blackadder and Ainslie only engraved it in 1797 . |
| 13 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 14 | The driver of the train did n't see him until it was too late , the engine literally cut him in half , he must have died instantly . |
| 15 | I only took it in social situations . |
| 16 | you perhaps took it in there then , for |
| 17 | This , remember , was said only a few months after Battiston of France suffered a serious neck injury when Schumacher , the West German goalkeeper , brutally bodychecked him in a World Cup semi-final . |
| 18 | ‘ I only put her in there for a minute . ’ |
| 19 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 20 | ‘ She only bought it in October and she had me wash it every Saturday since , ’ says Tim fingering the glossy body of the car he now drives . |
| 21 | And just as she had found peace in his words , so did he in hers now . |
| 22 | She would be hurting no one because , even if Rune had lied and was still involved in some emotional way with Lotta , the Swedish girl had already assumed they were lovers and obviously accepted them in that role without suffering undue pain . |
| 23 | One was from the Arisleus Vision : ‘ With so much love did Beya embrace Gabricus that she entirely absorbed him in her own nature and dissolved him in inseparable atoms . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He only said it in passing , ’ she added quickly . |
| 25 | Might have been my idea — well , it was , but I only said it in a fit of temper ! — but she carried it out . |
| 26 | She only had them in bloody September like . |
| 27 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 28 | Mrs Mantini only wanted her in the afternoons and all day Saturday . |
| 29 | I du n no , I just read it in the book saying what a blow job is . |
| 30 | He turned , took a plate of food from the hall table and offered it , making sure his hand just grazed hers in the passing . |