Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best book I read myself in 1991 was ‘ Biography of James Hudson Taylor ’ ( OMF ) by Howard and Geraldine Taylor , which showed that even one of the giants of missionary history had his own personal struggles , but also that the Lord brought him through . |
| 2 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 3 | I think she 's a bit upset , I think she thinks I 'm better , I 'm better than her because I beat her in that , and I think she 's , a bit of shock for her . |
| 4 | My first experience with boys was not a great success but it was n't the last , and later I found myself in worse scrapes than on that first occasion . |
| 5 | So I found myself in one of those " Catch 22 " situations and I chose the lesser one , and the one I thought I could defend . |
| 6 | I ran away from him as fast as possible , and did not stop until I found myself in some fields . |
| 7 | ‘ I found him in great spirits . |
| 8 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
| 9 | They have a grave in Golders Green : I visited it in 1947 , a fortnight before my wedding . |
| 10 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 11 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
| 12 | I told him in great detail . |
| 13 | I told you in another part of this saga of mine that I took over a Night in No 7 Squadron from a Flight Commander . |
| 14 | The journey to Liverpool Street station was just a trundle around the Northern Line from Camden to Moorgate and then a short walk , and I accomplished it in good time . |
| 15 | On another day I provoked him in some way and he slapped my cheek . |
| 16 | ‘ I played him in many positions and he 's never let us down . |
| 17 | I buried him in that beautiful valley of winding waters . |
| 18 | This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about . |
| 19 | I soaked it in hot water and antiseptic and I drank a little more whisky . |
| 20 | A cream-coloured dress of mine got covered with rust and , although I soaked it in biological liquid , it did n't get rid of the stain . |
| 21 | Then I asked her , I could n't help it , I asked her , I said ‘ Never mind the photocopy , ’ I said , ‘ Let me ask you , was the cock tracing I showed you in any slight way arousing ? |
| 22 | ‘ I informed everyone in local league cricket , including 21 clubs of Asian boys , but only three turned up for the first week . |
| 23 | And then I finished it in one go . |
| 24 | But I agree , I sensed something in that house : an evil , an aura , a dankness , despite the wealth . |
| 25 | Gerald Brennan , writing just two or three years after the war , says in The Face of Spain that the slow hand-clap to attract the attention of waiters had died out , but I heard it in several places in the north . |
| 26 | Yeah , she gave me a Crunchie and I thought I bet it 's poison so I broke it in half gave them a bit , watched them eat it , gave it five minutes and then eat mine ! |
| 27 | The Forest boss said : ‘ I watched him in five-a-side training and it was as if he 'd never been away . |
| 28 | I watched it in first and I went |
| 29 | I placed it in that part of the room where we need the light , with something which , if I believed in it , I would call instinct . |
| 30 | I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over . |