Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one day Kirsty met an old friend who happened to have consulted me in the past for regression therapy . |
| 2 | and criticizing the royal family , we have admired and criticized them in the course of the last half hour . |
| 3 | I am grateful to my colleagues at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the United States and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Britain for the help and opportunities they have given me in the preparation of this book . |
| 4 | They are entitled to these benefits , they should have received them in the past , and they should have received them by law . |
| 5 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 6 | And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’ |
| 7 | Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons . |
| 8 | The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today . |
| 9 | ‘ Indeed you would n't find better anywhere , ’ said Mrs Bennet who had joined them in the cellar with her daughter . |
| 10 | And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view . |
| 11 | The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading . |
| 12 | Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government . |
| 13 | At once , he could see that it was the same monstrous nightmare that had attacked them in the basement . |
| 14 | A funny thing for a gyno to say out of the blue — and the first time he 's ever looked me in the eye . |
| 15 | The same morning Mrs Singh had approached me in the school foyer , handed me a bag full of letters , and burst into tears . |
| 16 | If a pollster had approached me in the run-up to the election , I would have said I was voting Lib-Dem , because I had a sincere intention of doing so . |
| 17 | They were some of the best he 'd ever taken , he said , but it was difficult to tell since he 'd dropped them in the water when he was changing film . |
| 18 | There were no brakes , and if I had stumbled , then the bar that ran between the shafts behind me would have caught me in the back and either dragged me along or knocked me to the ground . |
| 19 | Well , I 've caught you in the act . |
| 20 | Deep-set eyes quizzed her in the candlelight . |
| 21 | Mr Mandela , for his part , according to Mr Ramaphosa , had ‘ a unique greatness ’ , a magnetism which he felt in his presence on Tuesday before he had even looked him in the eye . |
| 22 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 23 | That old bugger Grunte had not included him in the invitation to dine at some poncy joint called La Noblesse , the smartest part of the Hospitality Inn . |
| 24 | He had desired to go to his homesite just once , not because he expected his parents to greet him with pleasure — he knew they would long ago have forgotten him in the act of rearing many other young even if they were still alive — but because it was there he had first been caught . |
| 25 | The 19-year-old French beauty , who had a million-seller with Joe Le Taxi , has told how strangers have attacked her in the street . |
| 26 | He had rung her in the afternoon and suggested they met . |
| 27 | Sue had designed it in the shape of a dove and the message read : ‘ How to give your MP the bird ’ . |
| 28 | I would gladly have accepted the post of manager even if I had not won it in the club raffle . |
| 29 | ‘ Could he have dropped it in the car ? |
| 30 | I have included it in the map with Eridanus . |