Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in a [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 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |
| 3 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The unions said the minister promised them in a private April 19 meeting that the operator 's status would not budge for two years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The figure turned stiffly and fixed them in a sightless gaze . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He found them in a melancholy group , joined by Charley , in Cat 's Coffee Shop . |
| 10 | I found them in an old file . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | The skills and cultures they developed sustained them in a harsh living , and gave them a lasting , non-destructive role in Arctic ecology . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | BEFORE Germany 's press caught him in a questionable stockmarket deal , Franz Steinkühler looked like a working-class hero . |
| 16 | He fixed her in a maddened stare and she saw the blood running from his gashed hand . |
| 17 | He found her in a small kitchen . |
| 18 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 19 | She found him in a small single room that was obviously intended to be his dressing-room or study , furnished with a single bed , rows of built-in cupboards , and under the window a desk and chair . |
| 20 | That weekend found him in a sunny mood . |
| 21 | He helped her in a two-year battle against cancer and to come to terms with her double mastectomy . |
| 22 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 23 | That 's when the Caterham goes , eight months after five of us struggled for a weekend to built it in a cramped studio behind the office . |
| 24 | In the US , DEC 's abrupt volte-face involved it in a furious row with press and analysts — see page two . |
| 25 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |
| 26 | He found it in a stoneflagged side passage , a door bearing a small brass plate : ‘ Garland ’ . |
| 27 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 28 | But even if the note was deleted ( and Ramsey deleted it in a later edition ) , Raven could not have voted for Ramsey with enthusiasm . |
| 29 | The Labour Party regained its self-confidence , lost after it had been deserted by its leaders , who formed a National government and then heavily defeated it in a general election in 1931 . |
| 30 | And suddenly he dragged her struggling against him , and clamped her there while his hard mouth sought and found hers in a violent kiss , forcing her lips apart , his hand holding the back of her head like a vice while she kicked and hit and struggled . |