Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a child , even though my parents were divorced and my mother did n't have much money , I would scream and shout whenever she tried to put me in some of my sister 's hand-me-downs . |
| 2 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 3 | One reporter who came to interview him in this period noticed how he looked as if he might collapse from " lack of nourishment , insomnia and fatigue " , and an acquaintance described him thus : " His face was pale as baker 's bread … he smoked and between exhalations he hacked a dry , deathly smoker 's hack Eliot was cadaverous . " |
| 4 | Which is how she came to find herself in such an embarrassing position . |
| 5 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 6 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 7 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 8 | And there was a vigour about him , a brightness of eye , an easiness about the way he held himself , that almost seemed to threaten her in some indefinable way . |
| 9 | I think , er you know , they 're just a , you know , if , if they were erm elm trees or something like that , or you know blackthorn trees here and you 'd taken them in this country , you 'd say , oh there 's a couple of blackthorn trees ! |
| 10 | He never forgot how it had once been , never seemed to regard her in any other way but as the person who had cared for him and loved him without reservation . |
| 11 | The figure of Moses , the key figure for Freud in Judaism , seemed to preoccupy him in these last years of his life , and it is only understandable that people see Freud as still wrestling with his own father in this intellectual activity . |
| 12 | The question seemed to amuse him in some way . |
| 13 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with Elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 14 | A second opinion was sought and , short-sightedly , my parents agreed to put me in those gorgeous National Health jobs which are now sported by your average Yuppie but which then made you look second only in berkishness to the kid in the owl specs with elastoplast all over one lens . |
| 15 | So he began to involve them in some of the decisionmaking about how their environment might be improved , their needs met . |
| 16 | We all three had dinner together , then you went off with her to your room , where she was to stay , though how you managed to accommodate yourselves in that tiny room with its narrow bed was something I preferred not to think about . |
| 17 | Mike Fitzpatrick capsized 2 minutes before the start but managed to right himself in such a position that he was first away on the gun although he was to drop back to 30th . |
| 18 | It did say something in that little magazine that came yesterday . |
| 19 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 20 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 21 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
| 22 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
| 23 | Until top jockey Mark Dwyer was handed the plum ride on Jodami this season , the trainer 's daughter Anthea and her husband Patrick Farrell had partnered him in all his races . |
| 24 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 25 | She had seen something in those dark tragic eyes , something akin to the anguish betrayed now in Tyler 's . |
| 26 | Those who had seen her in this mood before faded quietly out of reach ; others got their fingers burnt . |
| 27 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 28 | She did n't know what it meant but had seen it in some of the old books in the Doctor 's TARDIS . |
| 29 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
| 30 | To begin with , they thought that the Robemaker had injured him in some unimaginable way , for the crimson mask still had him in its grip and in the flickering light , it looked for a moment as if the lower part of his face was covered in blood . |