Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
2 | they 'd got it in right , cos she was showing my how it worked and that , all |
3 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 ! |
7 | Whatever it was , he 'd served me with his final invoice and I 'd paid it in full . |
8 | W. J. Arkell , king of the Jurassic , had placed it in 1933 at the base of the Callovian Stage . |
9 | 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 ! |
10 | The elements may have seemed brutal to the documentary makers ( and some had roughed it in various parts of the world ) but to someone like Hannah who had experienced the winters of 1941 and 1962 that November was child 's play . |
11 | It would perhaps have been entirely adequate if I had received it in any normal circumstances . |
12 | Bill 's call had shaken me in more ways than one , so I dispensed with discretion . |
13 | Pippin , the first of the line , had destined it for his first-born , the young Charlemagne in the 750s ; Charlemagne had assigned it in 790 to his son Charles , later labelled primogenitus and designated heir to the regnum Francorum ( though he predeceased his father in 811 ) . |
14 | It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | This from eight-year-old Leslie who had let him in earlier . |
17 | Whenever the two women were together , the conflict of loyalties had torn her in two . |
18 | The fat boy had mated him in four moves . |
19 | Since the early part of the 1960s the sense that the universities needed to take their national role more seriously , as Reid had reminded them in 1948 , had been somewhat enhanced by the appointment of the Robbins Committee . |
20 | The others realised the error at precisely the same moment , and the subsequent racing back along the track towards each other could have been useful in Doctor Zhivago if someone had shot it in slow motion . |
21 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
22 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
23 | Those who had seen her in this mood before faded quietly out of reach ; others got their fingers burnt . |
24 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
25 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
26 | She did n't know what it meant but had seen it in some of the old books in the Doctor 's TARDIS . |
27 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |
28 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | And whoever took this four marb eight marbles had chucked them in this hole and if a even number come out it was mine , if a odd number came out then he 'd take the eight . |