Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 2 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
| 3 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 4 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
| 5 | I wanted to go out last week , but he said , ‘ No way , you 're not going out there ’ , and he made me stay in the whole week . |
| 6 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 7 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |
| 8 | She made me get in the driver 's side and we followed a Volga police car and did a careful legal speed all the way into town . |
| 9 | When Maggie returned she found them locked in the strained silence . |
| 10 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 11 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 12 | I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks . |
| 13 | And he let them help in the shop ( Carrie loved that : measuring out things on the scales and giving the change ) until Nick stole some biscuits one day and he came in and caught him . |
| 14 | My dad caught me injecting in the bedroom . |
| 15 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 16 | I went looking for Mathilda and found her working in the buttery with the other maids . |
| 17 | ‘ We found her sitting in the loo lighting up . ’ |
| 18 | Erm I went in the mill to get some wood and noticed this young man and , I think I told you , I found him smoking in the , in the Porsche . |
| 19 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 20 | He was that one , of course , and the night found him sitting in the back of a purring car being driven around the frosty streets of London in search of somebody to help him finish the story . |
| 21 | When they entered his rooms , in answer to his hearty ‘ Come in ! ’ they found him sitting in the broken armchair , surrounded by books , his feet comfortably supported by a small wooden stool . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know no more , except that I helped him to hide in the hayloft . |
| 23 | At 0630hrs a PBY spotted a Japanese midget submarine as it approached the harbour defences and shot and depth charged it to sink in the harbour . |
| 24 | We found it buried in the grass and it obviously been put there deliberately to maim . |
| 25 | On Oct. 20 the ANC and PAC excluded AZAPO from the convening committee of the conference , but invited it to participate in the meeting . |
| 26 | The first time she found us chatting in the yard she rushed up and dragged me away . |
| 27 | Once , whilst in Venice , the Inquisition caught me , tried and condemned me to burn in the great piazza before St Mark 's . |
| 28 | ‘ The police told me to turn in the opposite direction . |
| 29 | ‘ He told me to stay in the house — not to go out . ’ |
| 30 | Francis told me to stay in the cabana while you were there 'cause you were his wife . |