Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Avoiding Richard , who got to his feet as soon as he saw something to be carried , she kicked open the top of the Arctic and flung them in golden handfuls onto the glowing bed of fuel . |
| 2 | Thus it might be that the old English case of Woodhouse v Brotherhood 1972 ] ICR 186 would be decided the same way under the Directive , because the facts , as found in that case , were that the transferee employer used the factory and the machines to produce different products from those made by the transferor and sold them in different markets . |
| 3 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 4 | In the mid 1970s , for example , the police fell out with a number of crime reporters and charged them in separate proceedings with a variety of criminal offences . |
| 5 | She received random bits of memory , tried them in different patterns , hoping to make sense . |
| 6 | Their most recent tour , in June of last year , involved them in joint performances of music by Haydn , Elgar , Dvorak and Beethoven in Munich . |
| 7 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
| 8 | The local people caught them in vast numbers for food , eating them fresh or drying them in the sun , and until recently they made up 80 per cent or more of the total catch . |
| 9 | So their best event found them in sixth position . |
| 10 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
| 11 | A family of brothers , fathers and uncles on the front table took an instant dislike to me and , slamming their pints on the table , sat back with arms crossed and regarded me in stony-faced silence . |
| 12 | They helped me in many ways but there was something sick in my mind . |
| 13 | No doubt my verbal articulacy , being greater than that of my unfortunate companion , helped me in this form of self-defence , as it did in my ability to lie . |
| 14 | Anyway this woman , the problematic one , stopped me in full view of everyone and handed me this folded piece of paper . |
| 15 | Business Week , in February 1989 , also ranked them in fourth position , with 1988 revenues of $55m. earned from 1185 searches by 118 consultants . |
| 16 | The we means ‘ someone in my group ’ , and when a Zuwayi used we in this sense , the reference group was small and was likely to include his own ancestors and relatives , men he could name in a line of descent which included both speaker and audience , which explained the existence and identity of each person , and provided them with a character and loyalties . |
| 17 | Watching the final scenes of Jean Harlow 's last film , the ones shot after she had died , defeated him in this way . |
| 18 | A further humiliation for Bush was the news that maverick Independent Ross Perot headed him in several states . |
| 19 | Even his close confidant Manning described him in later years as imprudent . |
| 20 | Ceauşescu 's distancing himself from his fellow countrymen , whether for reasons of security or hygiene , meant that his daily life involved him in regular contact with relatively few people . |
| 21 | Subsequent parliamentary enquiries into improper electoral practices involved him in some censure and this enabled Disraeli , who never liked him , to make fresh arrangements for the management of the party in opposition . |
| 22 | Lucie , who had been calling to him all the while , unheard above the din , caught him in both arms and ran with him , up the steps and through the chapel door which Izzie was holding open . |
| 23 | And now she caught him in another gesture , but a surreptitious one this time — the quick shooting of a cuff to glance at his watch . |
| 24 | Violette had set up as a paper restorer , an arcane occupation which took precise scientific skill but involved her in outlandish escapades with police and businessmen or lawyers . |
| 25 | Anything which involved her in unnecessary enmeshment with Vitor d'Arcos would be sturdily fended off . |
| 26 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 27 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 28 | ‘ I found him in great spirits . |
| 29 | After he had been held incommunicado for a month his family were allowed to visit him and found him in good health . |
| 30 | But his finest years found him in some competition with another actor who , like Brando , refused to conform . |