Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andy , my anaesthesiologist , gave me a smile and a pre-med jab and left me to float in a warm sea-green calm which was interrupted by the slap of rubber swing-doors and a breathless , ‘ Hi , my name 's Nudleman . |
| 2 | Vases in the Marine Style , including rhytons , bridge-spouted jugs and three-handled amphoras , are decorated with triton shells , argonauts , octopuses , starfish , rocks and seaweed — all of them treated in a free and fluid way . |
| 3 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 4 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 5 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 6 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 7 | Thus , one might characterize one 's grasp on the experience of seeming to see a red object as something is going on in me ( I do n't know what it is ) which is like what goes on when a red object is acting on my eyes ; or … like what goes on in me to make me behave in a red-object-appropriate way . |
| 8 | ( 1981 ) also shows how positive measures to meet the needs of visually handicapped pupils can help them to flourish in a happy community atmosphere . |
| 9 | He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug . |
| 10 | When I became in a conscious way feminist I pondered long what it meant that a woman could not in such a way depict Christ as being in her image . |
| 11 | Well this highlights my point I made in a previous message … how many of the above transfers out can you say we should have got more ? |
| 12 | No they 're not gon na exploit their own workers but surely the , the , the whole idea of the build up towards land reform is that you are making , I mean in a Marxist sense it 's the only way in which you can do it is , is you make progress through conflict . |
| 13 | I mean in a different town , not just |
| 14 | I must explain that and I eat in a special compartment , screened from the other foreign friends , who pay for their own meals . |
| 15 | In Chapter 2 I argued in a similar vein that the concept of an ontological existent involves the idea of non-arbitrariness , in the sense that by positing something as an ontological existent , i.e. as existing in its own right and not merely as an object of someone 's thought , we are by implication positing this something as a potential subject of a nun-arbitrary subset of predicates from among an indefinite number of meaningful predicates . |
| 16 | I lived in a small village in Essex with my sister , who was over twenty years older than me , and married to Joe Gargery , the village blacksmith . |
| 17 | I lived in a small , second floor flat with my father , my mother being dead , which overlooked a small , noisy courtyard . |
| 18 | Finances were riding along the crest of a slump and I lived in a one-room penthouse in Bakers Arms , Leyton ( on top of the opticians ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I lived in a large house converted into flats . |
| 20 | I lived in a different house , read different books , played different games and so on , and , despite various efforts , could not become popular . |
| 21 | And I lived in a back-to-back houses , and concrete floors , no no carpets on . |
| 22 | On every local flight that I make in a single-seater glider , I do some sideslipping on the approach to keep in practice . |
| 23 | The importers were n't reliable , and neither were the craftsmen , especially those who persuaded me to pay them in advance Then I got in a financial muddle because I did n't keep my bookkeeping up to date . ’ |
| 24 | I got in a bad way . |
| 25 | so it 's all hot on the plate and served straight away you know , luckily erm I managed it but I got in a little bit of a flap I will admit it whereas Shirl 's now got used to that I mean I when we first came we both used to do our own help each other out I used to help out but erm |
| 26 | ‘ Let's just say I got in a tight spot . ’ |
| 27 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 28 | At 4 o'clock I posed in a flower-decked kiosk wearing Amy 's brand-new Marks and Spencer 's floral cotton and an awful lot of Elizabeth Arden 's Flawless Finish . |
| 29 | What it is le let's just sort of get things , as I say in a new build situation if you were having a new house built |
| 30 | She was there again when I helped in a feeding centre in Seoul in Korea , when the people came from broken down shacks once a day to get soup and rice . |