Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way down I had my camera tied to my waist and it started to drop ; in trying to grab it I lost my balance , got my foot caught in the tree root , took a tumble and twisted my ankle . |
| 2 | With hindsight , she says : ‘ I wished I 'd kept my mouth shut in the first three weeks . |
| 3 | My friend stopped in the middle of eating . |
| 4 | [ Balliol ] pressed me much to have my name inserted in the new Commissn for the Peace , but I absolutely declined it . |
| 5 | Luckily , old habits die hard , and I had my tape-memory stowed in the car , together with a stack of other junk . |
| 6 | In order to progress the working up of your requirements , please liaise with my colleague identified in the enclosure . |
| 7 | My Spanish cracked in the strain and I unleashed a torrent of verbal abuse whose tone he could not mistake . |
| 8 | We had all heard rumours about the Legion 's paras , and I was holding myself to my vow made in the bathroom in Wales nearly ten years before . |
| 9 | erm and as such a likely hiding place for someone to be was beneath the bed , erm I then lifted the bed with one hand , as I had my revolver drawn in the other hand , erm and then seeing no one was underneath it , I I dropped it again . |
| 10 | I potter and practise on my newly-restored Orange Beast , my socket set in the sidecar and patience at the ready . |
| 11 | I mean , my husband has even at one point had to come into the bathroom , when I got my mother stuck in the bath er , could n't get her out , it was , it was him or the fire brigade , tha that was the choice , basically ! |
| 12 | In addition , about 36 fragments of metallic nickel-iron meteorites have been collected , one of which contains minute diamonds , and is the second of its kind known in the world . |
| 13 | Where there is a surety to the agreement and an assignment by the tenant is agreed by the landlord , it is advisable to ensure that while the surety may still be forced to be bound by the obligations on its part contained in the agreement , the surety should not be forced to be a party to the lease . |
| 14 | The basic point is that the language of conscious states has its primary ground in the interaction of humans , and of other beings that behave like them , and the question of the inferential access to inner worlds of ‘ subjective feelings ’ is not raised . |
| 15 | Maggie exclaimed when she saw her sister framed in the kitchen doorway . |
| 16 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 17 | PIPPA Steffell , aged one , who got her foot caught in the gap of a Sainsbury trolley while sitting in the seat . |
| 18 | She was a very efficient , neat woman with a reddish face , her hair parted in the middle and drawn back tightly against her head . |
| 19 | Alexandra , in her new afternoon dress , her hair parted in the middle and drawn up by Lyddy into a series of padded puffs and curves behind , waited in the drawing-room on the edge of the sofa . |
| 20 | Because it is part of the shared assumptions of the discourse participants that these discourse subjects exist , they do not need to have their existence asserted in the discourse . |
| 21 | Its fabric shifted in the light , cords sliding across one another , and the light shone through and between them . |
| 22 | There was no significant difference in the rate at which AIDS progressed in the two groups ; about 8 per cent in each group had died within the three years . |
| 23 | A horse that persists in trying to buck us off may have its self-esteem developed in the wrong way ! |
| 24 | AA patrolman Nimesh Patel went to help a woman get her car started in the damp — and fell headlong into her icy pool . |
| 25 | I caught it with the catapult , the thick black tubing of the rubber twisting once in the air as I scissored my hands and fell back , letting the buck go over my head and then kicking with my legs and turning myself so that I was level with it where it lay , kicking and struggling with the power of a wolverine , spreadeagled on the sand slope with its neck caught in the black rubber . |
| 26 | There was a vast empty space like a hall , its roof lost in the golden haze . |
| 27 | The Winsor & Newton Young Artists ' Award has prizes to the value of £2,500 , and offers the 20 finalists the opportunity to have their work exhibited in The Mall Galleries , during the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours Annual Exhibition which runs until April 20th . |
| 28 | It 's one of less than three hundred horses of its type left in the country . |
| 29 | One set of parents were regular church-goers and genuine believers ; the other parents had probably never been to church since they were married — they were merely exercising their rights , within the established Church in Britain , to have their child baptized in the parish church . |
| 30 | Its engine failed in the eye of the storm as it headed through the Bristol Channel on its way from Middlesbrough to Newport . |