Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning for the door , Mungo suddenly found himself in the overwhelming dark . |
| 2 | We suddenly found ourselves in the Turkish baths with a dozen nude men . |
| 3 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 4 | Innocent of intrigue , Meredith suddenly discovered it in the dark depths of Lucenzo Salviati 's eyes . |
| 5 | ‘ The sessions not only pointed me in the right direction for obtaining information , they taught me a lot about the sort of questions I should be asking . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ And I just found myself in the right place at the right time ! ’ |
| 7 | After a hesitant start , the other leftwing and progressive parties who were defeated in the first round have joined Mr Da Silva 's campaign , along with the Socialist and Communist parties , which already supported him in the Popular Front coalition . |
| 8 | There was no yardage chart in those days , but I worked out very quickly that Arnold was two clubs stronger than me , so I just put myself in the same situation and added on two clubs . |
| 9 | ‘ Villa totally outclassed us in the first half and we were extremely lucky only to be a goal down . |
| 10 | I could get tired of even roulette if I always played it in the same place . ’ |
| 11 | He also established himself in the Russian trade , which during the French wars offered exceptional opportunities for profit . |
| 12 | United deserved the win , but they nearly lost it in the closing minutes . |
| 13 | He often visited her in the early months , talking as if the passive figure in the background was n't there . |
| 14 | Thin and tiny in stature , her back was as straight as an arrow , but her legs often pained her in the cooler winter and spring weather . |
| 15 | Dignam used to joke about how his priestly teacher , a devotee of the classical drama , invariably cast him in the leading roles of Shakespeare 's heroines , Portia , Juliet , and Ophelia among them . |
| 16 | Simultaneously he increasingly involved himself in the literary life of London , a change in the balance of his career which began when he made the acquaintance of the poet , Alfred ( later first Baron ) Tennyson [ q.v. ] , who in 1867 commissioned Knowles to design his house in Aldworth , Sussex . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm very lucky because I 'm sure there are loads of managers who get fed up with their artists music or maybe never even liked it in the first place ! |
| 18 | Bradl has a 150-strong fan club , who most importantly supported him in the early stages of his career . |
| 19 | She-She then parked me in the aromatic cubicle . |
| 20 | She resisted for no more than a second , then joined him in the secret dark underneath . |
| 21 | Fortunately , the German spirit that found expression in the Reformation , and with it gave rise to the first German music , has never yet fully lost itself in the dominant Alexandrianism . |
| 22 | On Junction Buttress , Malc Taylor put All my Pegs in one Basket and then left them in the obvious overhanging crack , which is now E7 6c . |
| 23 | I rolled the two pellets of wax between the forefingers and thumbs of each hand and then replaced them in the opposite ears , the whole time humming and appreciating the bitable texture of the linoleum beneath my soles . |
| 24 | Feargal bought her ticket , made sure she understood the map of which part of the mountain was hers to search , and then pointed her in the right direction . |
| 25 | I never used it in the like people put it in the till . |
| 26 | I frequently give into their hands my best guns and never found them in the slightest degree disposed to take advantage . |
| 27 | We went into the living-room and seized the brass clock which has always adorned the shelf above our fireplace ( oh , what strong hands he has ) , and violently enclosed it in the festive wrapping paper he found in the trash . |
| 28 | Listen , if you go off and become a goatherd you never loved her in the first place . |
| 29 | A key concern that runs through all these debates and to some extent actually inspired them in the first place is whether one can draw clear boundaries between the social classes . |
| 30 | He certainly had it in the early days of Carry On Sergeant . |