Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | That 's what they did to people after they had died , they laid them out in a bed . |
2 | Woolley led them down in a mock attack , the arrowhead formation swooping in a long , curling dive that went under the Frenchman 's tail and zoomed up and levelled out , back on patrol . |
3 | Why you ever asked me down in the first place is still a mystery to me . |
4 | And then he asked me out in the end . |
5 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
6 | And for at least one parent , there was an awareness that sometimes children 's sense of justice can be hurt by parents not taking some of the blame : ‘ If a kid arrives late for school , or is not properly dressed , then that 's not the kid 's fault , it 's the mother 's fault , or whoever got them out in the morning . |
7 | We never got them out in the first place . |
8 | Four days later found me out in the garden learning the ‘ Western roll ’ over a beautifully ( if hastily ) made high jump frame . |
9 | So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes . |
10 | Yes she still phoned me up in the morning and at vast expense to tell me how awful everything was . |
11 | So then I began to be really pretty busy with running the office and then keeping my home , but I 'd got a husband who was very , very , handy and helped me out in the home you know . |
12 | I was sure that his status as head of the herd helped me out in an unpleasant encounter . |
13 | ‘ Is that why you were spying on her when I caught you out in the hallway ? |
14 | She caught him up in a breathless embrace , then gave a little gasp of alarm as she seemed to notice the two policemen for the first time . |
15 | He found him out in the garden , sitting on a wooden bench by the pond . |
16 | The violence in him was suddenly frightening , yet it touched her inside , caught her up in a tangle of emotions too powerful to analyse . |
17 | The miniature St Christopher on it had a brief treat before Sorrel cooled him off in no uncertain terms . |
18 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
19 | Yes , could you say that just a little louder , I 'm not sure that they caught it down in the lower basement . |
20 | Someone had seen the open door , and fastened it up in a fit of misplaced zeal . |
21 | He lined us up in the corridor and told the other Corporals that he would deal with us . |
22 | As I poked them back in the compost moved , and I retreated hurriedly . |
23 | It was just coming up to three o'clock when the taxi dropped them off in the old town square and Ven guided her to the old town hall where , with barely a minute to go before the run-through of the astronomical clock , Fabia stood in rapt attention . |
24 | Detectives also want to trace a driver who is thought to have given 3 men a lift and dropped them off in the Blisworth area on Sunday night . |
25 | And the chauffeur drove me down in the car and sat beside the car waiting on me . |
26 | He drove her back in a battered silver sports car . |
27 | She imagined him out in the square at that very moment concocting a plan to get into the flat again and make a thorough search . |
28 | My head got stuck up there so I lifted her up in the hair and started swinging her around in my head . |
29 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
30 | I was pretty well broke by then , but thanks to the good offices of Msgr John Esseff , they were taken in by the Sisters of Charity , the Most Reverend Mother Teresa 's order , who hid them out in a convent in Spain . |