Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 2 | Charlie found himself waiting in another queue before coming face to face with the sergeant again . |
| 3 | ‘ Lustig ’ is the quality missing here but , having said that , I found plenty to enjoy in this seldom aired repertory . |
| 4 | With a fortnight to go before Spain 's general election , the ruling Socialist party found itself embroiled in more accusations of financial irregularities , this time involving the financing of its referendum campaign in 1986 to keep Spain in NATO . |
| 5 | Perhaps those artists mentioned who worked in several ways — like Hartley or Guston or Morris — will be shown in a manner that suggests some of the aesthetic connective tissue that is otherwise ignored , but if they are represented only by their signature work a great deal will be missing . |
| 6 | He spun her around , and she found herself locked in that steady blue gaze . |
| 7 | The impetus which drove them to expand in all directions from this base is not fully explained . |
| 8 | All those to , yeah well I told you to put in this morning . |
| 9 | Told him to look in any time — just to walk in , sit down , take his shoes off , and make himself at home ! |
| 10 | She imagined him standing in some white-tiled institutional lavatory , suffering from nervous nausea . |
| 11 | She thought more about losing the coal to Mrs Phipps than about Granny , it seemed to me then , but I expect it was the shock that caused her to react in that way . |
| 12 | ‘ Who allowed you to sleep in this room ? |
| 13 | Although the radio monitoring system used by Siobhan Fahey allowed her to indulge in some frenzied dancing during the songs , it did her no favours in the vocal projection stakes . |
| 14 | After two years he moved to Border Television in Carlisle where being part of a small team allowed him to dabble in all areas of production . |
| 15 | Remember when I ordered you to strip in that hut ? |
| 16 | This led him to investigate in more detail the effect of alcohol on chromosome segregation at about the time of conception , and its effects on early development of the mouse embryo in vivo . |
| 17 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 18 | This enabled me to put in all the words I consider legal and thus go on to win the game . |
| 19 | Yes , because this is describing , analysing how ordinary people lived , what was going on that enabled them to live in this way . |
| 20 | I saw you disappear in this direction , and decided it was now or never . ’ |
| 21 | To her dismay , hot tears burned her eyes in frustration at the physical weakness that kept her kneeling in such a submissive attitude at his feet for several more seconds . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't ask me , missis ; all I know , wherever she went on those nights , she 'd leave here at half-past six and it was lucky if the clock saw her coming in that door at half-past eleven at night . ’ |
| 23 | His popularity saw him appear in many Royal Variety shows . |
| 24 | Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters . |
| 25 | ‘ Nobody really knew what to do in that situation , ’ says Ken Berry . |
| 26 | Cezar , Bailey 's Brazilian butler , later recalled that he never knew what to expect in those days . |
| 27 | Not even when Pam Wright went 4-up on me after four holes in the final of the Scottish at Troon did I feel in any danger . " |
| 28 | Did you go in that room ? |
| 29 | " Jane , " he 'll ask as he signs an expense claim , Why did you invest in this trip to see Pierre Broger in Paris ? " |
| 30 | did you stay in that position or do you erm change ? |