Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] in [noun] [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary helped him with his chemistry and deserves much of the credit for the good grades William got in tests when he got back ( the teachers were amazed ! ) . |
| 2 | I know for a fact David confided in Keith when we split up and told him everything . |
| 3 | Meredith squealed in alarm as he jerked her roughly towards him . |
| 4 | David Aird jumped in alarm as I burst into song , rocking the boat dangerously . |
| 5 | A boar , tusked and red-eyed , suddenly burst from the undergrowth and Corbett jumped in fear as it blundered its way amongst the trees . |
| 6 | Next morning Shiona remained in bed until she was certain that Jake had left for the office . |
| 7 | Ulbricht died in office when he was gone eighty , did n't he ? ’ |
| 8 | Carrie sighed in resignation as he carried her out on to the small landing and leaned his shoulder against the bedroom door . |
| 9 | Endill watched in horror as he began hitting the handle , swinging against it with all his might . |
| 10 | Jacques Devraux watched in silence as she stepped out of her sodden clothing . |
| 11 | A year ago , the Commons listened in silence as she gave a graphic eyewitness account of the suffering of Kurdish refugees on the Iran-Iraq border in the aftermath of the Gulf War . |
| 12 | In other words , whereas Fred grew in understanding because he started with experience and read to feed the interest which derived from it , those who started with the reading failed to develop understanding because the interest was not there . |
| 13 | Mize looked in trouble after they 'd played their second shots . |
| 14 | Before sleeping I wonder what Pascal had in mind when he wrote in the Pensées : ‘ Time heals griefs and quarrels , for we change and are no longer the same persons . |
| 15 | Gaetano Salvemitu used to maintain that Mussolini ended in disaster because he always said Ja to Hitler at the wrong moment . |
| 16 | Martin remained in disarray until he was 0–4 down in the fourth . |
| 17 | It is not clear what Croom-Johnson J. had in mind when he said that there was a requirement of ‘ hostile intent , ’ and the observation has been doubted and explained subsequently . |
| 18 | Marion exclaimed in disgust as she stooped through the door . |
| 19 | It may have been this group Professor Ashton had in mind when he drew attention to the way in which London banks played a role in making available the " savings of agriculturalists ' to provide " much of the investment in manufacture " . |
| 20 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 21 | Damien writhed in anger as he stood penned in the bus shelter like an animal , with this herd of obnoxious Cockneys . |
| 22 | Mrs McMahon called in astonishment as she emerged from the lounge . |
| 23 | This is the sort of procedure that Wimsatt had in mind when he said ( 1958 : 149 ) that ‘ poetry is that type of verbal structure where truth of reference or correspondence reaches a maximum degree of fusion with truth of coherence — or where external and internal relation are intimately mutual reflections ’ . |
| 24 | Foster screamed in panic as he felt the cruel steel slice his flesh , and he threw himself bodily away from his attacker , hitting the ground in a rolling break-fall and spraying himself with his own urine as he did so . |
| 25 | It was binding as mere furniture that Burns had in mind when he wrote : |
| 26 | One hopes that is not what Crane had in mind when he credited Williams 's poems with ‘ charm ’ . |
| 27 | This must be the sort of writing that Crane had in mind when he applauded Williams ( still rather grudgingly , however ) for sometimes attaining ‘ the classic manner of the old Chinese poets ’ . |
| 28 | Were these the woods , I wondered , that Kingsley had in mind when he wrote of Tom 's escape from Ellie 's little white bedroom ? |
| 29 | And while he was about it , Guy told himself savagely , he had better discover what little plot Isabel had in mind once she reached Winchester . |
| 30 | Dr Penry Vaughan nodded in approval as he poured hot , fragrant liquid from an insulated flask into a mug . |