Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's top twenty girls fought or flowed it out in the championships over the weekend … the big prize for them this season is a place at the Olympics … only two girls can go … the competition is made up of four disciplines rope … hoop … ball and clubs … |
| 2 | He preferred to forget about those , or to pretend to himself that ‘ the real Marie ’ had not sent that bottle crashing into the wall by his head , or hunted him down in the darkness of the tunnels . |
| 3 | The air intake scoops took their final shape ; the chrome trim that divided it longitudinally in the first two cars was finally eliminated . |
| 4 | One of the things that bothered me most in the villages of the Delta was the treatment given to women in childbirth . |
| 5 | Jane had decreed bowls rather than plates for the curry and spooned it out in the kitchen whence it was ferried by Christopher , Francis and Martine ( Jane 's mind darted back involuntarily to Puchero and gauchos in Argentina ) . |
| 6 | He put my felonious body in the stocks of his arm and led me off in the direction of what passed for a garden at Sussex , a series of brick-edged parallelograms that could n't have looked more artificial if they had been planted with cathode-ray tubes , instead of hardy perennials . |
| 7 | He shook out the handkerchief and stuffed it back in the top pocket of his jacket . |
| 8 | And around this same period , an Englishman reading in the public library at Bagnères came upon an account of the battle of Toulouse in the Napoleonic wars which he thought too favourable to the French , and annotated it accordingly in the interests of accuracy . |
| 9 | So I followed you over , and found you here in the cottage . |
| 10 | Stubbly paused for a moment , then rocked forward on his heels and prodded me gently in the chest with a forefinger . |
| 11 | So then I began to be really pretty busy with running the office and then keeping my home , but I 'd got a husband who was very , very , handy and helped me out in the home you know . |
| 12 | We shared our resources for lunch — the girls ' picnic sandwiches and a cold pie and some fruit I had bought that morning — and ate it comfortably in the cottage kitchen , with its grandstand view of the bay . |
| 13 | She threw the mess after him and then thought , I 'm cracking up , and retrieved it and buried it deep in the refuse bin . |
| 14 | Detectives also want to trace a driver who is thought to have given 3 men a lift and dropped them off in the Blisworth area on Sunday night . |
| 15 | She chuckled and poked him gently in the ribs with the handle of her racquet . |
| 16 | The last read her a lecture , told her he would not disoblige her father by employing her , and turned her out in the street like an errant daughter . |
| 17 | Trung grabbed him by the shoulders and turned him bodily in the direction of the village . |
| 18 | It 's like I took a completed album of all kinds of different songs and threw it up in the air and it came crashing down . |
| 19 | Uncle Philip picked them up and stuck them briskly in the gap between the puppet 's wooden breast and its white satin bodice . |
| 20 | In the bedroom she took off her blouse and skirt and hung them carefully in the wardrobe . |
| 21 | Ruth unpacked the few clothes she had brought with her and hung them up in the wardrobe in the dressing-room then she plugged in her hairdrier and blow-dried her hair in front of the dressing-table mirror . |
| 22 | George slipped off his Burberry and hung it up in the hall cupboard . |
| 23 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 24 | There were some faded letters but she was n't interested in those and shoved them back in the tin , unopened . |
| 25 | Then we clad and ran off home then we went back mishchifing again we came to a boy and shoved he down in the grass and piched is sweet and then we ran off then I made a apple bom then I chudet it then we went home . |
| 26 | John took the empty cups down below and placed them quietly in the small sink . |
| 27 | Well I had Mrs in this morning she had a tooth out this morning and he broke it and he tried to get the rest out you know using a special instrument and he twisted it and a fragment of the tooth come off and hit me straight in the eye . |
| 28 | I would have loved to have swung the sodding bag and hit him straight in the balls but the old tight-fist snatched it off me and threw the gold on to the hall floor so he could watch his courtiers scramble . |
| 29 | The man heard or sensed him at the last moment and turned with his hands coming up to a fighting stance but Maxim feinted through them and hit him low in the stomach . |
| 30 | And he stood over him while Philip picked them all up and packed them back in the drawer . |