Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | Victoria met her in the hall , saying , ‘ You look frozen . |
| 3 | Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ . |
| 4 | The pyramids were already 2,000 years old when Herodotus visited them in the middle of the fifth century BC , but he found the Egyptians still told tales of misery about their construction , the horrors suffered by the populace . |
| 5 | In the morning , Punch brought a letter from Trelorne , whose contents Aunt Emily did not reveal , but Alexandra found her in the drawing-room after luncheon . |
| 6 | This particular guitar is a bit of a video star ; Dave Stewart used it in the promo for The Eurythmics ' The City Never Sleeps . |
| 7 | Two weeks later , to my horror , Mr Taylor stopped me in the corridor and asked me if I 'd consider doing another talk — to another class . |
| 8 | When the hamlets were first included in the development area for the new city of Milton keynes in the 1960s , people of Calverton fought it in the High Court and won . |
| 9 | Every Saturday found me in the Hippodrome , our nearest cinema , which stood like a red-brick wireless set at the junction of Main Street , Byrely Road and Auckland Terrace . |
| 10 | Grimma prodded him in the stomach . |
| 11 | After some time Jean advised me in the words above to go out and be alone with God and express my renewed affection for him . |
| 12 | Late that evening , Corbett was found by a servant sent by Selkirk , who announced in broad Scots that the knight would be grateful if Corbett joined him in the outer bailey near the main gate . |
| 13 | Lucy rang her in the evening . |
| 14 | And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before . |
| 15 | Donna saw it in the rear-view mirror , convinced and elated that she 'd done it crippling damage . |
| 16 | Bowhill , much as Sir Walter Scott saw it in the ‘ Lay of the Last Minstrel ’ is there for all to enjoy . |
| 17 | I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black T-shirts . |
| 18 | I 've only got this one , I had a cream one and it got wrecked by going , I think Neil put it in the wash with one of his black tee shirts , and |
| 19 | I suppose Sue saved me in the nick of time , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Mrs Wright put it in the vase that she 'd filled with fresh water . |
| 21 | Caron wrote it in the aftermath of the '92 riots in LA where she was living at the time . |
| 22 | The horticultural coup of the show is this unassuming little plant which is still in bud.A Victorian favourite called the double cream blackberry plant , it was thought to have disappeared.But nurseryman Bob Brown from Evesham spotted it in the United States . |
| 23 | Hitch shot him in the face , watching as he toppled backwards , most of his bottom jaw blown off by the close-range blast . |
| 24 | Their work was still circulating in the 1940s when Simone de Beauvoir criticised it in The Second Sex ( 1949 ) . |
| 25 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 26 | It must have taken a while from Taunton , Charles thought , as Frances drove them in the yellow Renault 5 along the route Lesley-Jane had described . |
| 27 | Maud caught him in the doorway of his hotel one evening . |
| 28 | He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub . |
| 29 | Their mother Carol found them in the burning room after hearing their screams . |
| 30 | Arriving home at half past twelve at night , Rachaela found it in the downstairs hall , another tenant had obviously taken it in . |