Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun sg] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A JEALOUS husband stabbed his wife and her toyboy lover to death after spying on them through a chink in the curtains . |
| 2 | Eventually I protested so Father Prior took me for a walk in the meadows and said I was to prove my worth with one final task . ’ |
| 3 | She had told him lies about where Bella 's money was hidden , pretended to be fascinated when he had lied to her about spending the day with his father : ‘ We played golf together , then he took me for a ride in the new car . |
| 4 | ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’ |
| 5 | A final upthrust of the North York Moors , they were virtually unspoilt when I roamed them as a boy in the 1950s . |
| 6 | In 1853 his whole collected works were published for the first time with an introduction in which the editor , George Offor , hailed them as a weapon in the struggle against ‘ the mighty efforts ’ which were then being made ‘ to enthral the country in the Satanic yoke of popery or its dark ill-shapen brother Puseyism ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I took them for a ride in a van and a walk through Epping Forest . ’ |
| 8 | You know I saw nothing of the sort when I for a fortnight in a . |
| 9 | The post would be appropriate for someone with a background in the private or public sectors . |
| 10 | Gail , who is also looking forward to the birth of her first baby in November , said : ‘ We have just come back from two wet weeks in Bournemouth and said we could do with spoiling ourselves with a stay in a luxury hotel then I was told I had won — it 's amazing. , ’ |
| 11 | One early significant occasion for me was actually meeting someone in a bookshop in the Finchley Road when I was about sixteen . |
| 12 | They would look for food by sending someone to a relative in a nearby village with a farm , usually entailing a trek of several days through deep snow . |
| 13 | Yanto watched the smoke from his cigarette drift lazily up the shaft of the sunbeam which bathed Molly and himself through a gap in the greenery above . |
| 14 | That means Newry 's Errol Lutton , who got a late call to Poland after Ger Burns had to withdraw through injury , keeps his place , a further chance to establish himself as a regular in the international set-up . |
| 15 | As a 23-year-old , Stan Whittaker was one of Butlin 's first clients in 1936 , having met Butlin himself as a customer in the early thirties at Skegness Amusement Park . |
| 16 | Yesterday he had thought of himself as a character in an obscene novel . |
| 17 | Of the second category of bishops as regional leaders , the northern prelates afford obvious examples : in 1346 Archbishop Zouche and Bishop Kirkby of Carlisle participated in the defeat of the Scots at Neville 's Cross , while Bishop Hatfield of Durham rode into battle at Crécy ; ten years later he , too , campaigned against the Scots , and in 1372 he offered himself as a mercenary in the pope 's wars in Italy . |
| 18 | He cast himself as a chairman in the new consensus which is in part a return to the old style of consensus in British politics . |
| 19 | Making a name for himself as a boxer in the army had come easy to him , and had it been peace time he could probably have gone a long way in the sport . |
| 20 | Miloslav Mecir , whose season has been handicapped by back trouble , assured himself of a place in the semi-finals along with Becker with a 6-2 , 6-1 victory against Austria 's Thomas Muster yesterday . |
| 21 | I even saw one video of a council meeting where an irate councillor , having virtually dug himself into a trench in an attempt to protect his interests in the face of strategic questioning by the YCCC , actually lost his cool and demanded that an old man who was tape-recording the meeting should either stop recording or get out ! |
| 22 | Dean Jones announced himself with a century in the opening Sunday League game , a stirring win over Lancashire , and Ian Botham interspersed some big one-day scores with a vain but valiant century in the opening Championship match . |
| 23 | ( He catches himself with a giggle in a vacuum and sits down again . ) |
| 24 | A MAN hanged himself from a tree in a busy shopping centre — but no one noticed his body for at least two days . |
| 25 | At school he had been enthusiastic but undistinguished , and after it he had found himself in a polytechnic in the Midlands , in the state of paralysis of the imagination that tends to grip adolescents when the time for choosing a career looms . |
| 26 | He would just sprint himself to a standstill in a couple of hundred metres . |
| 27 | –Full-back Gary Culling , who excels in getting into scoring positions , also helped himself to a brace in the 45th and 61st minutes . |
| 28 | He would treat himself to a seat in the front row . |
| 29 | David was warming himself by a fire in the centre of the hut ; he was almost nude and had never worn anything other than a coarse blanket which was slightly tied round him to cover his back . |
| 30 | A horse-rider towered amongst them , forcing against them like a rock in a torrent . |