Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old bat led me astray in more ways than one . |
| 2 | His partner , and captain , was Mickey Walker and her steadiness , combined with flashes of flair from Llewellyn , got them round in 69 , three under par , for a two-round total of 137 , one shot behind the leaders . |
| 3 | ‘ I expect she would laugh her socks off if she found you here in royal regalia ! ’ |
| 4 | On the smaller scale of his country villa , Richardson himself was equally active , earning the admiration of Miss Talbot who visited him there in 1756 : |
| 5 | Jahangir now meets Chris Dittmar , who beat him twice in last month 's world championships . |
| 6 | However , Kolbe relented when Griess approached him again in 1856 after working in a tar distillery in Offenbach , and took him back . |
| 7 | He heard her sigh deeply , the way she always did when he let her down in some way . |
| 8 | The judge was unimpressed by the argument based on freedom of speech and the application of article 10 , and dismissed it summarily in these terms [ 1991 ] 4 All E.R. |
| 9 | She took one of my mother 's gingham breakfast napkins from a drawer and wrung it out in cold water . |
| 10 | The Bush administration was vocal in its opposition to the proposal and , backed by massive lobbying by foreign governments and investors , defeated it early in each legislative session . |
| 11 | The Hardys left Swanage early in 1876 but visited it again in 1892 , when they attended a meeting of the Dorset Field Club and ‘ were introduced to old Mr B(urt) , ‘ the King of Swanage ’ ’ . |
| 12 | Lastly they took the Minister and his wife , Jan , and drove them fast in separate cars across the Churchill Barriers that block the eastern approaches to Scapa Flow , to Kirkwall , the county town on Orkney 's mainland . |
| 13 | I knew it was 2.06 a.m. because the bedside clock told me so in orange digits big enough to divert aircraft if the curtains had been open . |
| 14 | if they 'd keep for Christmas that 's why they charged so much for them , those Mackintosh reds and that , and I mean it told you then in one of those magazines that were , John was reading that he said make sure that you wash those apples before you eat them . |
| 15 | It has its own associated pattern of atmospheric circulation , named after Sir Gilbert Walker who identified it early in this century ( Figure 3 ) , and it is also associated with changes in the pattern of surface temperature . |
| 16 | Er I think we learnt it probably in different ways , we learnt it more parrot fashion than they do today . |
| 17 | ‘ I faced them twice in 1984 and the memory still makes me wince , ’ said the Harlequins openside man flanker last night . |
| 18 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |
| 19 | Every time the woman was marking off the numbers Shaney was turning the card over , you know , she turned it over in six cards . |
| 20 | The English archers poured a deadly hail of arrows into the French troops , and the English men-at-arms finished them off in hand-to-hand combat . |
| 21 | The boots served me well in wet weather doing an admirable job in keeping my feet dry , but on some of the hotter days this year I did find that my feet got unpleasantly hot and sweaty . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's too beautiful a day for you to go on Mr Gajduseking me the whole while , ’ he cut her off in easy fashion . |
| 23 | Because the captain had spoken French , Joseph thanked him haltingly in that language , then motioned towards the lower deck . |
| 24 | Until he cut it down in later years , his run-up was extremely long — and his saunter back to his mark extremely slow — but the speed that it generated undoubtedly justified the length , and the grace of it all was an aesthetic delight . |
| 25 | Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 . |
| 26 | In fact , I made a major decision in '84 , and followed it through in '86 . |
| 27 | To leave it loose in there means wastage , so whoever did this folded it away in neat toxic razor-blade size packages . |
| 28 | He put it to his lips , hesitated , then knocked it back in one go . |
| 29 | He knocked it back in one gulp . |
| 30 | He knocked it back in one and gasped with the pleasure of it . |