Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 2 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 3 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 4 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 5 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 6 | Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s . |
| 7 | That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order . |
| 8 | I was the new boy at the office , he the old hand wondering what to make of me ; but if he was having second thoughts he dismissed them in a sudden grin . |
| 9 | The unions said the minister promised them in a private April 19 meeting that the operator 's status would not budge for two years . |
| 10 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 11 | As the heat of the afternoon penetrated even the cool heavy shutters and stone floors of the farmhouse , the feasting guests gradually reduced their assault on the table , and drowsiness floated in with the warm air , caught them in a soft hug and lulled them to sleep . |
| 12 | Instead of joining the press of bodies that jammed up the aisle towards the crush bar , he took my arm once again and drew me in the opposite direction . |
| 13 | The figure turned stiffly and fixed them in a sightless gaze . |
| 14 | I could n't understand what was wrong with him until Frankie pulled out the other two from behind the boiler and found them in a similar state . |
| 15 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 16 | My text here is Evans-Pritchard 's unrivalled study of the witchcraft beliefs of the Zande people of the southern Sudan as he found them in the late 1920S and early 1930S living under the generally benign rule of the British raj . |
| 17 | She found them in the Green Room . |
| 18 | I found them in an old file . |
| 19 | In response to some implied criticism I made of his treatment of the sub-editor , Porua regarded me in a sneering silence and then said , ‘ Why should I have regard for my fellows ? |
| 20 | But I could n't get the door shut to lock him in and he caught me in the other cellar . |
| 21 | The skills and cultures they developed sustained them in a harsh living , and gave them a lasting , non-destructive role in Arctic ecology . |
| 22 | It was their duty to permit themselves a swift handshake and a kindly word to those , less august than themselves , whose long evenings on the ‘ knocker ’ , canvassing for the party , sustained them in the political positions to which they had become all too easily accustomed . |
| 23 | You helped me in the early days . |
| 24 | He now faces Alan McManus , the Scot who defeated him in the Asian Open semi-finals last year . |
| 25 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 26 | He often visited her in the early months , talking as if the passive figure in the background was n't there . |
| 27 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 28 | Dignam used to joke about how his priestly teacher , a devotee of the classical drama , invariably cast him in the leading roles of Shakespeare 's heroines , Portia , Juliet , and Ophelia among them . |
| 29 | On that occasion , Richard Dorment , a critic not noted for exaggeration , described him in The Daily Telegraph as the most inventive sculptor since Picasso , and this new exhibition promises to be one of the season 's notable achievements . |
| 30 | His political ideals included the concept of arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of national disputes , and involved him in the jingoistic disputes of 1877 . |