Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've a great deal to thank-you for , Edward , ’ he said , ‘ not many would have helped me the way you did or taken me in the way I looked that night . ’ |
| 2 | and criticizing the royal family , we have admired and criticized them in the course of the last half hour . |
| 3 | The crate-people took no notice of them but arranged their food to the left of them , erected a cross in front of them while their leader pulled an angled prop from behind the picture he was holding and positioned it in the pebbles to the right of the dedicated gathering . |
| 4 | It was this strange subterranean thumping that had wakened and drawn her in the first place . |
| 5 | There was no other explanation ; she 'd gone and landed herself in the sole company of a madman . |
| 6 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 7 | He could have slit our throats for us then and there and thrown us in the canal , likely as not . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've bought you a safety seat and fitted it in the back . ’ |