Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a launch party , at Heaven , he took two platefuls of celebratory cake and , with a gesture of proprietorial confidence that Rupert Murdoch or Robert Maxwell would have been hard put to match , flung them in the faces of his two editors . |
| 2 | Nobody visited them in the evenings or dropped in for a chat during the day , except in the way of business — to sell wood to Uncle Philip or to arrange a booking for Francie and his fiddle . |
| 3 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 4 | His beloved father , Jack , had no especial love for cricket , although later on young John would delight in a recollection that when cricket began to seek better playing surfaces it found them in the graveyards . |
| 5 | We found them in the stables , tending to the horses ; country lads whose constant talk was of saddles , bridles , reins and spurs ; what was good horseflesh and what was n't ; what horses should be fed and when they could drink . |
| 6 | The guerrillas had allegedly smuggled explosives and weapons , including Soviet Katyusha missiles , into Jordan and used them in the attacks . |
| 7 | He approached me in the Limes Club in Sheffield and said if I signed with him , he would fill my book and raise my fee — a promise which he fulfilled . |
| 8 | His family visited him in the cells before leving the court . |
| 9 | ‘ One of the patrol cameras caught him in the Frames making harvest . ’ |
| 10 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 11 | To her astonishment , he suddenly prodded her in the ribs . |
| 12 | But Davis , now with 65 tournament wins worldwide to his credit , has enormous respect for Doherty , who also beat him in the quarter-finals of October 's Rothmans Grand Prix . |
| 13 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 14 | The 31-year-old needs an operation on a calf injury which dogged him in the weeks before Saturday 's FA Cup final defeat by Liverpool . |
| 15 | She would n't acknowledge an Eternal Verity if one came up and smacked her in the chops . |
| 16 | He took it along to Stationers ' Hall on 2 November 1691 and entered it in the Stationers ' Register to establish copyright of a sort : |
| 17 | ‘ I caught it in the banisters as I turned the corner , ’ I lied . |
| 18 | A Roman Catholic persecuted under Elizabeth I , he designed the Triangular Lodge in his prison cell as a symbol of the Holy Trinity and built it in the grounds of his home when he was released . |
| 19 | After some time Jean advised me in the words above to go out and be alone with God and express my renewed affection for him . |
| 20 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 21 | He could still feel eyes on him , they were like fingers , they poked him in the ribs , the shoulderblades , the neck , it was hard not looking round . |
| 22 | Yeah , he played it in the Witches |
| 23 | And then we had to wait while they poured them in the moulds , but if the moulds failed , and they were rather big , they was full of air-holes and they used to turn it all into a fine just l l pebbles of molten metal , straight back up at you , and you could n't move cos if you moved your crane then somebody would have been killed with out the ladles . |
| 24 | The violence on the screen seeped out , rambled round the room like an animal , then joined them in the seats . |
| 25 | Each had something to fear from Men , though Men now protected them in the Cages . |
| 26 | Vanessa dug him in the ribs . |
| 27 | As it was , the week he spent on Mrs Goreng 's tour confirmed him in the ideas he had brought with him . |
| 28 | Eventually she came to Byblos and succeeded in having the palace column removed and thus was able to retrieve the casket and take it back to Egypt , where she hid it in the marshes of the Delta . |
| 29 | The charming Mrs Fitzsimmons was at the ringside screaming : ‘ 'It 'im in the slats , Bob ! ’ |
| 30 | They hacked me in the ribs and then proceeded to batter me about the head . |