Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 32 | Nobody excelled him in that judgement , with which he united his own observations on nature , the energy of Michelangelo , and beauty and simplicity of the antique . |
| 33 | After a moment , she sat up in the cluttered bed and regarded him in mock annoyance . |
| 34 | He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting . |
| 35 | Rain caught her in both arms , held her tight , and knew it was only her grasp which kept the woman upright . |
| 36 | She helped him in other ways also — she was a chauffeuse on occasions , tended him when he was ill , and sometimes acted as a secretary . |
| 37 | After having a challenge for the domestic middleweight title demolished by Bunny Sterling who stopped him in eight rounds , Hope once more returned with a vigorous sequence of wins culminating in a challenge for the world light-middleweight title held by Eckhard Dagge in Berlin . |
| 38 | Pedro Almodóvar used him in five films . |
| 39 | She would make Hari Morgan interested in her scheme for an emporium however much it cost her in lost pride for in . |
| 40 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 41 | De Gaulle had long believed that the PCF 's tendency to align itself with Moscow invalidated it in crucial respects , and in November 1945 he had refused to give the PCF one of the three ministries that he regarded as essential to national security . |
| 42 | This group were aware of the injury and described it in neutral terms of sensation . |
| 43 | Laughing he tossed the hot nut , and Emilia , squealing , caught it in gloved hands . |
| 44 | One particularly violent swerve took it right off the counter and Finn caught it in mid air , upside down , wheels spinning . |
| 45 | He held it up for the others to see and then threw it at the thin man contemptuously who automatically caught it in both hands . |
| 46 | It was what , I used today , they used it in all hospitals . |
| 47 | He used it in encouraging teachers to give children the freedom to discover themselves . |
| 48 | Sometimes a descendant has resurrected the bookplate of an ancestor and used it in later books , if necessary cutting off the original name . |
| 49 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 50 | Here are some examples : What if you … used triangular paper ? tried it in three dimensions ? plotted a graph ? tried a simple case first ? shared your results with someone else ? tried fractions or decimals or negative numbers ? |
| 51 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 52 | Here is the modest parish church of St Mary : the date of its founding is obscure , but a panel over the porch records that the building was restored by Lady Anne Clifford in 1663 after she found it in ruinous condition . |
| 53 | HE LOOKED for the second picture , found it in one glance , and the blood shot hot to his heart . |
| 54 | Diplomatically the Avignon popes gave more to Edward than they gained from him , and by their intervention , first to save his favourites and then to bring about peace with Scotland and with France , the terms of which were not relished by the people , the papacy went further towards gaining that ill-reputation which dogged it in fourteenth-century England . |
| 55 | The decision we made was careful , it involved us in much work , and it was , in the event , I think , a seriously mistaken decision . |
| 56 | The parish church helped us in other ways . |
| 57 | To furnish the interior authentically , the owner sought out period items — panelled doors , chimney pieces , etc — from local buildings that were to be demolished and installed them in appropriate positions . |
| 58 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 59 | George thought shrugged and said : ‘ Sprague told me in deepest confidence but … |
| 60 | He acknowledged this when he told me in fluent English that he wanted to do a post-graduate degree in biology in the States . |