Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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1 | I was thinking about his while stuck in a traffic jam the other day . |
2 | We reached Mandalay and I went straight to the Winchester Mission where dear Willie Garrad looked shocked to see me and said in a scandalised voice , ‘ Oh , but you ca n't possibly stay here ’ — it was a Brotherhood you see ! |
3 | Then collect them and sow in a very shallow container like a dish or bowl containing a mixture of coarse sand and loam or fine peat or potting compost . |
4 | It should be stressed that large wooden articles such as doors are usually far better stripped by removing them and dipping in a caustic tank . |
5 | But Modigliani did not forget and in 1915 , when Indenbaum met him in Montparnasse , looking pale and unshaven , Modi came up to him and said in a hoarse voice , ‘ I 'm going to paint your portrait . ’ |
6 | I leaned over him and said in a different tone , " Do you know where Toby is ? " |
7 | Tavalouze sidled up behind him and said in a low voice , ‘ Remove your hood , the veil . |
8 | Werewolf softly whistled Mark Knopfler 's Going Home from Local Hero and did n't stop even when Jenkins walked up to him and said in a plummy voice : |
9 | Well , she 'd lost her bonus now , she observed ruefully to herself as the tall dark stranger turned once more to look at her and remarked in a scathing tone of voice , ‘ I would say that , considering the state your car 's in , about the only thing it 's good for is to be used as a battering-ram . ’ |
10 | When they stood up she thought with ill-humoured relief that Nicole was about to step into her car and drive away , but Piers turned to her and said in a flat voice , ‘ I 'll see you later . |
11 | He looked at her and said in a hard voice , ‘ I do n't suppose you know what it 's like to feel simply damned useless . ’ |
12 | Then he looked at her and smiled in a shamefaced way . |
13 | He looked closely at her and spoke in a slightly louder voice and more slowly . |
14 | He stared at her while drawing in a deep breath , which expanded his broad chest further ; then he said , ‘ Well , if you want to know , you should n't look as you do ; you attract the wrong kind . |
15 | All cetaceans draw in fresh air through this nasal orifice down into their lungs , releasing it and drawing in a fresh supply whenever they return to the surface . |
16 | Think about it and try in a different way another time . |
17 | And nerves too when you have a finger whose paralysed and could n't remove it and put in a nerve and then they could work again . |
18 | Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge , and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area . |
19 | The Finn touched the ball inside to Jess who controlled it and turned in a blur of movement which took him clear of his cover and a sweetly struck shot hummed past Andy Rhodes . |
20 | * Instead of rinsing your pasta after cooking , drain it and put in a serving dish or back in the saucepan , then add a few knobs of soft butter . |
21 | Bernard excised it and put in a piece of nylon . ’ |
22 | Yet another view regards it as formed in a similar manner from the gonopods of the 10th abdominal segment . |
23 | Ca n't we sell them ours and put in a new one |
24 | If young attachés were unpaid this made it more difficult to treat them as cogs in a bureaucratic machine . |