Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To her astonishment , he suddenly prodded her in the ribs . |
| 6 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Might have been my idea — well , it was , but I only said it in a fit of temper ! — but she carried it out . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Mrs Mantini only wanted her in the afternoons and all day Saturday . |
| 12 | I du n no , I just read it in the book saying what a blow job is . |
| 13 | He turned , took a plate of food from the hall table and offered it , making sure his hand just grazed hers in the passing . |
| 14 | I just approached it in the way I would were it my album and my band . |
| 15 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 16 | As I lay on O 's chest something moved me to snap the locket open , and I remember I asked , who is that ? thinking maybe this was the solution to the mystery , and he said , in the same voice that he talked with later in the night , a sleepwalker 's voice , without taking his eyes off the ceiling he said , I do n't know ; I just found it in a magazine . |
| 17 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 18 | Well , that 's all that ready just popped it in the oven . |
| 19 | and erm I just stuck him in the bath when we got home |
| 20 | I just stuck it in the ground I think . |
| 21 | He turned and came after me waving his revolver , but I easily lost him in the crowd . |
| 22 | But she was still smiling at me , so I just tied it in a knot and left it . |
| 23 | He suddenly realized that the impact of this too-vivid memory had slowed him down and finally arrested him in the middle of the wet pavement Two girls in a shop-doorway were staring at him and giggling . |
| 24 | But this young one , a very spiritual guy , like a leftover from The Deer Hunter with a black headband and black jersey , said he wanted to shoo these journalists ; he had a revolver with him all the time , he is licensed to kill and he says he 'd shoot them if they came near , and I said ‘ No , please do n't do that , I 'll get in more trouble , ’ and he said , ‘ I ‘ ll just hit them in the knee . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It just hit us in the face , ’ said Robin . |
| 26 | In fact , I just saw him in the flesh , bruised as that might be . ’ |
| 27 | Cos I w he was , he was in the Post Office one day and he saw this old woman and she 'd just cashed all her giros and this bloke just nicked it in the Post Office . |
| 28 | Erm I was , I , I thought that , when you covered all the policies you then went through and summarized all the needs and I thought you were n't going to go back and , and er explore further so what you did is you covered all the policies and then you summarized everything and then explored all the needs and s and at one point I thought that you were n't actually going to do that but you did come back and do it , you just did it in a different way . |
| 29 | I just did it in the pan on top |
| 30 | I just won it in a |