Example sentences of "[vb past] in [pers pn] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They created in him a sense of desire and longing . |
| 2 | So while his real need for me had something to do with prac-ticalities , he reinforced in me the sense that his need had something to do with his sister 's death . |
| 3 | It cast in him a fear so deep that he could say nothing , only stare . |
| 4 | Yet he also found in him a warning . |
| 5 | Hence planning was not a uniquely left- or right-wing cause between the wars , it was a response from progressive capitalists , professional people , academics , centrist politicians and socialists who found in it a means of advance over a wide range of social and economic problems . |
| 6 | Different as his experience was from that of the curia , he found in it an ally far more than had Paul with his long curial background . |
| 7 | A series of Land Acts shook the confidence of the landlords as they recognised in them a forewarning of the change in the ownership of Irish land . |
| 8 | ‘ He instilled in me a sense of pride in my country , the need to preserve our heritage and culture . |
| 9 | There was a game she played with me when I was a very little girl which roused in me a discomfort I identify now as irritation . |
| 10 | To his surprise he discovered that it produced in him the symptoms and signs of the illness which it was used to treat , namely malaria , which in those days was known as intermittent fever . |
| 11 | The delicacy of his touch as he stroked her was such that Julia could hardly feel it at all , and yet it aroused in her a longing for him that she had never before experienced . |
| 12 | Sarah was a beautiful , sensual woman and she aroused in him the kind of emotions he had always condemned as sinful in others . |
| 13 | He never patronized the disabled but restored in them a zest for life and work . |
| 14 | She felt watched in her every deal . |
| 15 | His devotion bordered on the obsessive in some moods , as though he saw in her a woman she did n't even know herself , an ancient soul-mate . |
| 16 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 17 | My father and mother perhaps saw in him the son they would have liked to have , not the peculiar failure they had produced in me . |
| 18 | Children related to him so much because they saw in him an adult who behaved in the way that they did . |
| 19 | The better view is that the Whigs were for Reform with various degrees of conviction and for a variety of reasons , ranging from that political expediency which saw in it a cause which would get and keep the Tories out , to that of moral principle . |
| 20 | Through his work as a teacher , he became fond of the race of Men and saw in it the possibility and the threat that in time it might far exceed the declining race of Elves . |
| 21 | The policy they embraced was however anathema to many Conservatives , who rightly saw in it the beginning of the end of British rule in India . |
| 22 | This trinity of faculties constituted the image of God and enabled in him a wisdom based on the knowledge of the reality of the love of God revealed at the Incarnation . |
| 23 | There grew in him a wish to touch with his fingers a future that he knew was that of many others . |
| 24 | RACING legend Lester Piggott last night vowed to carry on riding as he lay in his The 11-times champion jockey has a partially collapsed lung , broken collar bone , damaged spleen , broken ribs and facial cuts after falling from his horse at 40mph in Miami . |
| 25 | The tears on Cullam 's cheeks awoke in him a nausea and a rage so fierce that it was all he could do to prevent himself from striking him . |
| 26 | If her beauty , her year advantage in age , and her casualness were not completely deterring , they often induced in him a tentativeness and an uncomfortable awareness of his own inexperience . |