Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in an " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 2 | I found them in an old file . |
| 3 | And this week the Government used them in an attempt to ‘ rehabilitate ’ sex scandal Minister David Mellor . |
| 4 | Then , in the afternoon , I came in from the garden and found her in an armchair , engrossed in a thick , glossy-looking book . |
| 5 | Perhaps then they heated it in an oven , or on a hot griddle ? ) |
| 6 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |
| 7 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 8 | James Brown interviewed me in an even smaller cupboard full of old NME s . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 10 | As Gains ( from Toronto , but now living in Croydon ) told me in an interview in 1980 : ‘ The only time Godfrey had the handcuffs off was when he was fighting another black man . ’ |
| 11 | The Home Secretary told me in an answer to a written question recently that he has no plans to remove young people from the penal system . |
| 12 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 13 | ‘ You may perhaps gain the kingdom of heaven by your prayers , ’ he told him in an unkind moment , ‘ but never the kingdom of Great Britain . ’ |
| 14 | It is as if we have frozen the beauty or anaesthetized it in an image ; but the images are like the humming birds of a museum case , the real and living beauty is incomparably brighter for those birds are gems that flash their iridiscent colours in a tropical forest . |
| 15 | Ignoring me , he chewed the end off and parked it in an ashtray . |
| 16 | They skimmed you in an ante-room |
| 17 | It was not long before Tony joined me in an attempt to free himself of the sizzling mushrooms . |
| 18 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm going to find the nearest policeman , ’ she informed him in an icy voice . |
| 20 | A final act : Valerie Place , right , showed the US boxer , Riddick Bowe , and his wife , Judy , a Mogadishu centre hours before bandits killed her in an ambush |
| 21 | William Swainson in particular congratulated him in an enthusiastic letter , written from his house in St Alban 's : |
| 22 | Because she turned unexpectedly she surprised him in an unguarded moment of frank sexual appraisal , but his dark , unsmiling gaze continued to hold hers steadily until she looked away again . |
| 23 | She took out a bundle of £10 notes each time and placed them in an envelope from her bag . |
| 24 | Manchester United manager , Alex Ferguson , gave England winger Lee Sharpe a vote of confidence and named him in an unchanged side for tonight 's home game against Arsenal . |
| 25 | Gareth took a step or two after them and I called him in an explosive croak , ‘ Gareth , ’ and he stopped and turned immediately and came back , bending down . |
| 26 | You felt , tasted and swallowed it in an effort to breathe . |
| 27 | There were significant differences , for the factory system not only took child labour outside of the home , it placed it in an inferior overall environment . |
| 28 | Mr Torughu promptly placed it in an envelope with his official report and sent it to UEFA . |
| 29 | I write in the past tense because I lost it in an arctic spell of weather and for some inexplicable reason have yet to replace it . |
| 30 | Dr Baltimore said the same thing — and repeated it in an article published in the summer of 1989 , arguing that ‘ the errors that have been identified in the Cell paper were inconsequential to the conclusions . ’ |