Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 2 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 3 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 4 | She heard the sharp intake of his breath , and then his lips found hers in the darkness and the fire was lit . |
| 5 | Spurs coach Doug Livermore said : ‘ Andy 's young but in every pre-season game , he was so good , his performances hit us in the eye . ’ |
| 6 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 7 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 8 | What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ? |
| 9 | Her obligations stared her in the face , but she did not flinch ! |
| 10 | At the chilly boarding-school to which her parents sent her in the mistaken belief that she would be less lonely among girls of her own age , the prizes for mathematics — a subject which she did n't particularly care for but which came easily to her — were framed reproductions of the works of Italian painters . |
| 11 | Whatever terrors awaited them in the city , it would be better to take a chance than simply wait for death at the hands of the Chelonians . |
| 12 | Two dates faced me in the late summer , early autumn of that year . |
| 13 | Whilst we recognise that conditions favoured us in the first quarter in that weather-related losses were comparatively light , the worldwide nature of the improvement , together with encouraging indications so far in the second quarter , lead us to believe that the worst is behind us and that trends will continue to improve . |
| 14 | I joined the others with great anticipation , of , possibly , hot coffee , French bread , maybe fried eggs awaited us in the barn . |
| 15 | All held The big farmers had them in the barn . |
| 16 | Boni homines or échevins ousted them in the self-governing towns ; and slowly the day-to-day work of running courts in the non-franchised areas was taken over by knights or clerks with special knowledge of the law , leaving castellans to revert to their military role . |
| 17 | The woman with the Scrabble game rules waved them in the air . |
| 18 | Farwaggi found it in the Herald Tribune . |
| 19 | Some of the men who took part in this , like Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother-in-law Sir Humphrey Gilbert , were also attracted by the idea of getting lands on the other side of the Atlantic , and the success of the Spaniards encouraged them in the widespread belief that an immense amount of gold and silver was waiting to be discovered all over the Americas . |
| 20 | If the convention as anti-parliament is understood as assuming that the people 's wishes must prevail , that the convention better expressed those wishes than parliament and therefore in any contest between the two popular loyalty should be to the convention , as abolitionists employed it in the 1830s , it was closer to a focus for intensifying ‘ pressure from without ’ than an alternative to parliament . |
| 21 | The farmers ' wives indulged him in the harshness of his religious practices , never minding that he brought his own delph and cutlery and would eat only boiled eggs and bread . |
| 22 | When I had the baby , Stephen , the screws left me in the outside hospital but they took my clothes . |
| 23 | The fact is that men and women of that day inhabited separate worlds ; their social rounds and domestic activities kept them in the society of their own sex much of the time . |
| 24 | Oh the , sprouts got you in the bath , went to and er kitchen to clean the sprouts , chuck them in a bowl I thought that 's funny , I did n't chuck that one in there ! |
| 25 | But the sight of her in tears disarmed him in the strangest way . |
| 26 | The family lawyers contacted him in the USA . |
| 27 | Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground . |
| 28 | Two bullets hit him in the left arm , and numerous metal fragments flew into his face , including a piece in his jaw which could never be extracted . |
| 29 | However , whatever , the reason why I mention it , I do notice that Green Peace are thinking of , perhaps some members saw it in the press , did you , that Green Peace are making a formal complaint to the European Commission about switching from de-sulphurisation to importing low sulphur coal , and it may be something that we should focus in on as well . |
| 30 | Trouser suits outraged convention when Courrèges introduced them in the 1960s . |