Example sentences of "[adj] in [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt some shame in digging up long-dead ghosts to torment Vologsky , and a sense of moral wrong in telling him such a bundle of blasphemous untruths . |
| 2 | " Your aunt became interested in selling them some time before she died . |
| 3 | The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again . |
| 4 | Europe has become whole and free — and America 's leadership was instrumental in making it possible . |
| 5 | More often , their dealers will be all too clear-sighted in losing them small fortunes . |
| 6 | More than that , it had served to prove yet again that Sweetheart was quite justified in calling him worthless and good-for-nothing . |
| 7 | PC Pick said : ‘ The Freeman Hospital have been exceptionally good in giving us two heart valves to take over . ’ |
| 8 | For example , I have found in my own reading research that a specialist bibliography entitled Readers and Library Users , by Martin Ward , has been very helpful in making me aware of research studies that I had not come across before . |
| 9 | Fletcher 's book contained a " devastating description of Russian manners and morals " , but was so antique that its scholarly translators must have thought themselves safe in making it accessible . |