Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Victorians , of course , for all their virtues , had an edge of prudery which made them condemn in public that which they were busy practising in private . |
| 2 | It was their personal frustration which led them to indulge in wild self-deception , to embrace with fanatical conviction the most extreme and fanciful ideologies . |
| 3 | It amused them to dine in some style , formally separating the working day from their evenings together . |
| 4 | He made me dress in erotic underwear and to dress as his sex slave . |
| 5 | This made me feel in later life that I was very unattractive , because I had had so many negative thoughts about my appearance earlier in my life . |
| 6 | And onto ou round Australia and that and I mentioned I started in New Foundland , yes . |
| 7 | The visiting officer found him living in one room which was almost entirely filled by a double bed . |
| 8 | She let him go in alone to break the news to Chris . |
| 9 | The Royal College of Physicians and similar organisations overseas have studied alternative allergy and found it wanting in scientific credibility and clinical usefulness . |
| 10 | The impetus which drove them to expand in all directions from this base is not fully explained . |
| 11 | All those to , yeah well I told you to put in this morning . |
| 12 | Told him to look in any time — just to walk in , sit down , take his shoes off , and make himself at home ! |
| 13 | She imagined him standing in some white-tiled institutional lavatory , suffering from nervous nausea . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | While one interviewee described it as meeting monthly ( at least in the early stages of the project ) , the chairperson recalled it meeting in full committee on only a handful of occasions , with the bulk of the work being undertaken by individual members in liaison with the academic and pastoral divisions they represented . |
| 16 | As a student I supplemented my grant by joining the Officer Training Corps , which not only brought me many good friends but also allowed me to participate in various outdoor activities such as abseiling , pot-holing , parachuting and canoeing . |
| 17 | It was the ICF who realised that looking casual allowed them to travel in large numbers and remain undetected by the police . |
| 18 | ‘ Who allowed you to sleep in this room ? |
| 19 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Punk rock was over by then anyway ( real punks claimed it finished in 1976 , but who were the ‘ real ’ punks ? ) and in its place there was an orgy of cross-cultural pollination , based entirely upon received ideas . |
| 23 | They paused halfway up and , straining her ears , she heard them conferring in low tones but was quite unable to hear what was said . |
| 24 | Remember when I ordered you to strip in that hut ? |
| 25 | When the magazine folded she specialised in dried flowers which had the virtue of not being able to shriek back . |
| 26 | James Brown only owed Bance 8s 6d which , if he had paid earlier , he would not have found increased by 3s 6d costs which Judge William Furner ordered him to pay in monthly instalments of 4s on top of his debt . |
| 27 | One of the radio control room operators heard her screaming in uncontrollable agony over the airwaves . |
| 28 | And erm my my Mrs Jonathan , my aunt Auntie Bessie , invariably in Porthmadog , went to call on the families of people who 'd been lost , as my mother did in in we lost you see in fifty two men killed in world war one . |
| 29 | Dalziel watched him go in amused exasperation . |
| 30 | I watched it float in slow motion towards the ceramic shower base , which it cracked neatly in two . |