Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had them hidden in a box , in the store room . |
| 2 | Two of , two of them departed for a period of six months . |
| 3 | On reaching the lockers he found the area around them occupied by a crowd of students , their rucksacks and kitbags strewn across the unswept floor . |
| 4 | In yet another case quoted by Afshan , the girl went to ask the help of someone regarded as a community leader . |
| 5 | ‘ Has someone arranged for a wheelchair ? ’ |
| 6 | I had never spoken to anyone who used a wheelchair before , and we soon found ourselves immersed in a conversation about our mutual ‘ problems ’ . |
| 7 | Jungle English was the title given by A. P. Herbert to writing so confused that one has to read each sentence several times , struggling with the words to find some sense like someone caught in a jungle . |
| 8 | er this bloke had his done in a shop |
| 9 | One might , thus , fantasise the death of someone seen as a threat , or imagine oneself as possessing enormous fame or wealth . |
| 10 | How had I done as a test-pilot ? |
| 11 | Because when he told me their name was I thought of a girl I used to know called Louise , but it is n't her |
| 12 | Never before had I slept on a river . |
| 13 | Was I called as a witness ? |
| 14 | my mother always , I used to say to her was I born in a gale , cos she could never get me in if the wind was blowing |
| 15 | Many times while going to school have I grasped at a wall or tree to recall myself from this abyss of idealism to the reality . |
| 16 | Were I inclined to a sense of responsibility , this factor alone would go no small way towards vitiating it . |
| 17 | I was seven and I was I went to a neighbour 's house and as it happened I was looking through the blooming window when the funeral went past so I was no better off you know . |
| 18 | I found them built into a cottage . |
| 19 | ‘ She gets them made in a factory in Hong Kong . |
| 20 | The two of them dated for a while , but it did n't work out . |
| 21 | He had n't bothered to inform anyone in the team of this intention , and manager Bob Merriman suddenly found himself plunged into a crisis of seemingly immense proportions . |
| 22 | He had found himself trapped in a room with doors made up of huge , sliding slabs of rock all round it . |
| 23 | The king supplemented these sources of patronage with papal provisions on behalf of his candidates , but it sometimes happened that the royal clerk , with or without a provision , found himself forestalled in a benefice by another providee . |
| 24 | Michael Caine stars as cat burglar Henry Clarke , a master jewel thief who has himself committed to a sanatorium for alcoholics to gain the confidence of a multi-millionaire . |
| 25 | With remarks like ‘ Ah well , that never did me any harm ; I have gone through worse ’ , he would brush aside his colleagues ' explorations as irrelevant , yet hint at having himself suffered as a child . |
| 26 | Twice , when he had run out of ideas , he had driven the little Triumph out of the district to a coffee shop where he was not known , and had sat drinking coffee and talking to the men next to him at the counter , surprised to find himself accepted as a member of the grown-up world . |
| 27 | He hated the vulgarity of showing off the delegates as though they were exhibits , and the insincerity of pretending that platitudes were pronouncements of world-shaking import , and the feeling that he came a long way to greet fellow-Christians and found himself turned into a ham-actor on a second-rate stage . |
| 28 | Hoare himself moved to a villa on Clapham Common , built for him by Flitcroft , where he died 8 September 1785 . |
| 29 | His work can be summarised by an expression which he himself used in a retirement speech in 1976 : ‘ Physics is not just concerning the nature of things but concerning the interconnectedness of all the natures of things ’ . |
| 30 | The Anti-Corn Law League may have helped to secure Whig support but what Peel himself called in a letter to Cobden his " 'sense of public duty " was more influential . " |