Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The absence of noise placed it happily in the private sector . |
| 2 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 3 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 4 | The blue eyes studied her lazily in the mirror , and she had the strangest sensation he was toying with her as a cat would a mouse before a kill . |
| 5 | The other Rex hit him hard in the stomach . |
| 6 | Saturday finds you still in the throes of sorting out a financial/ professional issue and you wo n't be able to really relax until you 've cleared up all unfinished business . |
| 7 | Little Chef tracked her down in the pink dusk at the bottom of the garden , with her arms round an apple tree , sobbing her heart out . |
| 8 | It was surely preferable for the superpowers to fight it out in the space race than blow the world to bits ( Wolfe 1979 ) . |
| 9 | If Gothic is the national style , Palmerston asked , could Scott tell him where in the country there are public buildings in that style . |
| 10 | Finalists in last year 's Quality Quest competition , Macmillan College , Middlesbrough and Dowdales School in Dalton in Furness are staging a rematch in Newcastle , where they are among five schools battling it out in the Northern Development Company 's competition . |
| 11 | When the sales er marketing exec goes round to the golf club to sign them up in the contract with the contract we will print one or other or both . |
| 12 | Ivy caught me alone in the passage to say how much I must miss Donald . |
| 13 | Then I drove my combat boot onto his temple as Marius hit him again in the mouth . |
| 14 | In that second , while Jinny was babbling on about Joe , the boy looked her straight in the eyes and spoke soundlessly , his lips shaping a single word . |
| 15 | It was , in fact , a much beamier vessel than the police ship , the hull fining up sharply towards bow and stern so that both fore and aft her deep , strong wedge-shape would cause the ice to squeeze her upwards in the event of her being caught in a series of pressure ridges . |
| 16 | And what makes you think I choose Pickerage to toss me off in the bogs ? ’ |
| 17 | I remember standing at the kitchen window watching them outside in the snow . |
| 18 | Sikes laid her down in the corner , as surprised as Fagin at her anger . |
| 19 | And puts it into roast in the oven , and takes it out after fifty minutes and then you get Philadelphia cheese and white wine melt it down in the wine |
| 20 | As it was the other end of the town , Matthew drove her there in the late afternoon . |
| 21 | Now it was drawing to its end she gathered the courage to look him straight in the face . |
| 22 | He waited until the surface of the water in the bath became quite still , like a pool , like a swimming pool before the very first swimmer enters it early in the morning , and then with one quick move climbed in and lay right under the water with his eyes closed . |
| 23 | Doug took him over in the week to look Mark 's but I mean they 're beautiful suits |
| 24 | For example , Pamela was surprised that her parents were concerned when a boy she had just met at a discotheque brought her home in the early hours of the morning . |
| 25 | Robert looked him straight in the eyes . |
| 26 | The car has made it that way and it would be almost impossible for public transport to knit it together in the way that the railways did in the nineteenth century . |
| 27 | He had n't been exactly jumping for joy to have her here in the first place , as she knew very well . |
| 28 | Run along and do n't hurry back , ’ said Susan ; so Breeze tucked her up in the manner she thought befitting to an invalid , and ran up to put on her coat . |
| 29 | Here are , Daddy take it out in the kitchen . |
| 30 | I have to go to bed early and then Mum gets me up in the morning she 's going get up ! |