Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb pp] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had them hidden in a box , in the store room . |
| 2 | er this bloke had his done in a shop |
| 3 | my mother always , I used to say to her was I born in a gale , cos she could never get me in if the wind was blowing |
| 4 | ‘ She gets them made in a factory in Hong Kong . |
| 5 | But his father wants them buried in a family plot in Santa Inez . |
| 6 | An elegant back view ca n't fail to get you noticed in a crowd |
| 7 | Fifty we sunk in a pond for six weeks , the other fifty we kept dry . |
| 8 | Later they had them set in a row near the climbing frame . |
| 9 | If his brother Ulf was involved , as stated by Saxo Grammaticus and possibly lost northern sources , he too must have made his peace with Cnut , who allegedly had him assassinated in a church at Roskilde . |
| 10 | The next morning they found him perched in a tree . |
| 11 | ‘ Then why are they locked in a cell ? ’ |
| 12 | Mira falls asleep and dreams luridly about Celia whose father keeps her locked in a room in a castle , and will not feed her . |
| 13 | I 've had him put in a strait-jacket and one of those leather masks with the little bars over the mouth hole . |
| 14 | And the doctor went up to see the old man and got him put in a hospital and that , in a mental hospital , for six weeks , right . |
| 15 | In contrast only one surviving statue of Hadrian shows him dressed in a toga . |
| 16 | When Tallis went quickly to the long-house , where Wynne-Jones had gone for extra safety , she found him huddled in a corner , shaking violently , his body wrapped in skins and his bird-feather cloak . |
| 17 | A new contributory scheme of this kind would be expensive because it must be generous enough to lift people off means-tested supplementary benefit ; and it would still leave them entangled in a cohabitation rule of some sort . |
| 18 | When one of the party , a Mrs Samuels , died on the trip , Cook diplomatically disguised the fact from the Arabs and , pretending that she was ill , packed up her body and had it carried in a palanquin until a suitable burial could be arranged . |
| 19 | He joined Scott and Moffatt as an assistant in 1841 , but by the time of the Foreign and India Office commission , he was probably working on a freelance basis , as he was not mentioned by Jackson , nor was he included in a list of members of the office sketch club in 1866 . |
| 20 | ‘ At first , I had a few reservations but we got it mixed in a day . |
| 21 | If he was royalty he 'd have it done in a day ! |
| 22 | How long how many how many men would you need if you want it done in a quarter of the time ? |
| 23 | four hundred and thirty quid , he said bloody hell , so what I said to him is , I know you 're gon na need a car , what I 'll do is er , I 'll get to work , I 'll put it , I 'll bring the car , you bring the car in beginning of the month , next month , right , said I wo n't be able to guarantee that I 'll get it done in a week cos I 've got other work booked in , but I 'll have it in here which means I 'll be able to do work to your car , right , and it 's better me being able to do that , then it , it 's sitting out outside your house and nobody touching it for a couple of weeks , now , I might have it for a couple of weeks , see and I 'll be able to do it in my own leisurely time then |
| 24 | ‘ The misery of unemployment or of repossession is all the more stark for seeing it written in a face rather than on a page . |
| 25 | She had it wrapped in a cloth and hidden in her dress , next to her bosom . |
| 26 | ‘ I can arrange to have it buried in a motorway tonight , unless anybody has a better idea ? ’ |
| 27 | Not only is he locked in a cage , but he is also treated as Tamburlaine 's ‘ footstool ’ . |
| 28 | That 's er he worked in a shop probably at that time . |
| 29 | She had not seen him for an hour or more , he had been here earlier , had he left in a fit of boredom , was he sulking in |
| 30 | After a shire-meeting in Herefordshire in Cnut 's day had declared that lands belonged to Leofflæd , her husband Thorkell the White rode to Hereford cathedral and had it recorded in a gospel book . |