Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO escaped prisoners were back behind bars yesterday after police re-arrested them in an early morning swoop . |
| 2 | I found them in an old file . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'll definitely stick to wearing them in the future , ’ he told me in an exclusive interview . |
| 6 | ‘ And there you are wrong , ’ Alain assured her in an amused voice . |
| 7 | ‘ You may perhaps gain the kingdom of heaven by your prayers , ’ he told him in an unkind moment , ‘ but never the kingdom of Great Britain . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm going to find the nearest policeman , ’ she informed him in an icy voice . |
| 10 | William Swainson in particular congratulated him in an enthusiastic letter , written from his house in St Alban 's : |
| 11 | Because she turned unexpectedly she surprised him in an unguarded moment of frank sexual appraisal , but his dark , unsmiling gaze continued to hold hers steadily until she looked away again . |
| 12 | Manchester United manager , Alex Ferguson , gave England winger Lee Sharpe a vote of confidence and named him in an unchanged side for tonight 's home game against Arsenal . |
| 13 | Gareth took a step or two after them and I called him in an explosive croak , ‘ Gareth , ’ and he stopped and turned immediately and came back , bending down . |
| 14 | There were significant differences , for the factory system not only took child labour outside of the home , it placed it in an inferior overall environment . |
| 15 | I write in the past tense because I lost it in an arctic spell of weather and for some inexplicable reason have yet to replace it . |
| 16 | Most people kept their papers in tobacco tins ; one man kept his in a biscuit tin , and one shaikh stored his in an old suitcase . |
| 17 | ‘ A year ago , he was driving a new BMW 5-series car , but I last saw him in an E-registered Ford Fiesta . ’ |
| 18 | She pulled away , but his hand followed , and took hers in an unrelenting grasp . |
| 19 | She marched him in an exact 15 metre circle . |
| 20 | He put her in an open boat , with no oars , at the mouth of the River Aberlessie which , the chronicle says , was called ‘ The Mouth of Stench ’ because of the thousands of rotting fish cast on the sands . |
| 21 | McFarlane won it in an extraordinary 10.08 seconds , gale assisted . |
| 22 | But when they finally met , Shug greeted her in an enigmatic tone , ‘ You sure is ugly ’ . |
| 23 | Yon Yonson married her in an evident attempt to qualify for the Irish dole . |
| 24 | To his increasing embarrassment , Montrose found himself bombarded with solicitations from three directions , which left him in an impossible situation . |
| 25 | Occasionally he retaliated with his own efforts about the relative sweetness of something his guest had brought , but he usually said it in an unconvinced , muddled way . |