Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 2 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 3 | I mean , he 's respected me in a queer way . |
| 4 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ says Brian , ‘ they 're both so like my own kids that we often say the stork must have dropped them in the wrong homes the first time around . |
| 6 | This morning Luke seemed even less human than he had at the interview when obviously she had caught him in an off moment . |
| 7 | In R v Mehmed [ 1963 ] Crim LR 780 where the accused had an air pistol which he produced in another 's private house , it would be reasonable to assume that he must have carried it in a public place to get it there or to take it away . |
| 8 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 9 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 10 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 11 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
| 12 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I have n't seen you in a long time . ’ |
| 14 | I have n't seen you in a long time . |
| 15 | The tight one will I 've never seen you in a tight dress though , you do n't let me see so I |
| 16 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |
| 17 | I 've seen him in a proper leather jacket . |
| 18 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 19 | Mum , look what I 've done Grumpy on done him , I 've done him in the right hat you see |
| 20 | ‘ Our people have met him in the social life of the arts world . |
| 21 | Physically , she was looking better than Harriet had seen her in a long while . |
| 22 | Her limbs were graceful , her whole body proportioned like that of a young goddess ; as for her breasts , an infatuated young man who had seen her in a small part at Robert 's Shield Theatre wrote her a letter quoting the Song of Solomon at length : Asshe threatened to horsewhip him . |
| 23 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 24 | I think that it ought to be self-evident , erm if we 've done our programme in a way which er , is clear or if we 've presented it in a clear fashion , then I think sequence and clashes er and safety , to a large extent , become self-evident . |
| 25 | The sleight of hand had not been performed to show off ; he had done it in a matter-of-fact way , as though it were no more unusual than scratching his ear . |
| 26 | Kangaroos have the same need to move rapidly , but they have done it in a different way . |
| 27 | ‘ She would have done it in a preordained way , of course , ’ mused Henry . |
| 28 | Dampt disgrace that couple that done it in the Golden Divans . |
| 29 | ‘ We also know that if Vechey committed suicide he must have done it in the early hours , just before dawn . |
| 30 | Almost all of the higher earners and men with 10 or more partners have had oral sex with a woman , and it 's the men with a regular relationship and someone else on the side who are most likely to have done it in the past year . |