Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a longish , plain face with a straight nose and almost no eyebrows ; she must have plucked them away in order to repaint them in higher up . |
| 2 | I had taken the slabs one course back from the edge of the hole , and Lou had arranged them neatly in order , so we would know what went where . |
| 3 | They felt that he had let them down in front of others . |
| 4 | Perhaps the man had picked it up in West Cameroun . |
| 5 | The value of having such materials in brief and physically separate forms is that it is easier to manipulate ideas while they are still in note form than it is once you have written them out in prose . |
| 6 | No seeing as though they 've been produced I 've said I all in favour of the jury seeing anything that 's referred to and then there , there 's no mystery about it then . |
| 7 | His insights and skill have made him much in demand as a consultant . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's another thing , ’ Candy continued , far too old a hand at the game to be distracted by such a blatant bid to change the subject , ‘ I 've seen him deep in conversation with quite a few people in the club recently . ’ |
| 9 | Having seen him safely in hospital , though not in the best of health myself , I called at the poll tax office and waited one and a half hours in a very smoky atmosphere to have the summons withdrawn . |
| 10 | Her parents Stan and Doreen , who arrived in Bangkok last week , have visited her twice in prison , the embassy spokeswoman said . |
| 11 | McLeod put an offer to the Wheway board and has now made it public in order to get a quick resolution . |
| 12 | ‘ And if you had n't got me out in time ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ British Rail staff have always been very helpful to me but this ca n't justify the cuts and I have told them so in writing , ’ he added . |
| 14 | I 'd got fed up with her everlasting sweetness and shown her up in class the day before . |
| 15 | I had used it only in reference to the night sky and the Zodiac . |
| 16 | On NoS they were being treated to the miracle of new technology , bypassing the National Graphical Association compositors who , before the age of ‘ direct entry ’ computers , retyped the articles on Linotype hot metal machines after the subs had marked them up in pencil . |
| 17 | They had previously won compensation of 1 million yen each for eight former employees dismissed in the ‘ red purge ’ and had set them up in business near the company 's housing project . |
| 18 | These are ‘ signatures ’ and , if , in early books , the printer has set them out in sequence right at the end , perhaps with the colophon , he has supplied the ‘ register of the signatures ’ . |
| 19 | Nor did I bear any ill-will against my poor mother , though she had brought me up in error , innocently ignorant of what she was doing to my psyche . |
| 20 | as if the blessed Dorn has marked you out in advance . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't woke you up in middle of night , it 's before |
| 22 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 23 | In September 1985 Mrs Dorothy Croce was shot and paralysed after the police had entered her home in search of her son . |
| 24 | Two years before his death , he had told Herbert Read that the best of his poetry had cost him dearly in experience . |
| 25 | I suppose it would have cost him more in court fees ! |
| 26 | During the twelve years of their life together , he had tutored her carefully in monkishness . |
| 27 | Also on Dec. 2 Baker announced that he was appealing to the House of Lords against an Appeal Court ruling of Nov. 29 which had declared him personally in contempt of court over his decision in May to cancel the return flight to the UK of a deported Zaïrean citizen , although a High Court judge had ordered a stay on the latter 's removal . |
| 28 | Routine care consists of keeping weeds and pests under control , and the tidying up of superfluous foliage immediately the frost has cut it back in order to deprive aquatic insect pests of a winter refuge . |
| 29 | Since the beginning of the summer , tens of thousands of club players had battled it out in club league qualifiers around the regions , in Men 's Open , regional play-offs , with all concerned hoping to carry their club 's name through to the prestigious finals in Hampshire . |
| 30 | Normally I would have completed it well in advance , but it 's been a busy week . |