Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 2 | Their nimble dexterity even made them preferred in the manufacture of buttons and in lacquering and japanning , although it did not bring them the wages of skilled male artisans . |
| 3 | The laibon asked me to sit in the boma , and pointed to my tape-recorder . |
| 4 | That evening , Frank asked me to walk in the town with him . |
| 5 | That made me move in a hurry . |
| 6 | You would have thought Magnus 's mother would have been nice to me but I bet Father had already telephoned and told her lies about me , because she made me wait in the hall until Nanny came to collect me in a taxicab . |
| 7 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |
| 8 | She made me get in the driver 's side and we followed a Volga police car and did a careful legal speed all the way into town . |
| 9 | First of all he let nothing stand in the way of his true feelings . |
| 10 | But he let nothing get in the way of his chief purpose . |
| 11 | She remained in the room for a long while but although Carrie went there twice with tea for them , she found them talking in the Romany language and did not understand anything they said . |
| 12 | They found me sitting in the hall , I had to be helped upstairs to bed . ’ |
| 13 | I wanted to try them on right there but for months he let them dangle in the closet upstairs , growing the wrinkles and airpockets that would finally fit his shape , the peculiar wishbone of his shanks . |
| 14 | And he let them help in the shop ( Carrie loved that : measuring out things on the scales and giving the change ) until Nick stole some biscuits one day and he came in and caught him . |
| 15 | My dad caught me injecting in the bedroom . |
| 16 | I had never spoken to anyone who used a wheelchair before , and we soon found ourselves immersed in a conversation about our mutual ‘ problems ’ . |
| 17 | Wilting under a hail of stones and a hefty dose of the hard stuff , Jimmy Johnstone darted for cover and along with Rangers defender Sandy Jardine found himself hiding in the vicinity of a group of rowing boats . |
| 18 | And when Rufus 's arms grabbed him from behind , ostensibly of course just to duck him under the surface , he found himself resisting in a way that Rufus recognized as real resistance and let him go . |
| 19 | The first two weekends of the 1977 season were for Mario anyway marred by accidents : in Argentina the nose-mounted fire extinguisher exploded , and in Brazil he found himself sitting in a pool of petrol and got out of the car while it was still moving just as his cockpit went up in flames . |
| 20 | The king supplemented these sources of patronage with papal provisions on behalf of his candidates , but it sometimes happened that the royal clerk , with or without a provision , found himself forestalled in a benefice by another providee . |
| 21 | Last year one Christopher Sutton found himself stuck in a mass of bodies at Oxford Circus because all but two of the barriers were not working . |
| 22 | Patrick suddenly found himself standing in the hallway , his heart tripping frantically , his breathing too fast to be comfortable . |
| 23 | WHEN Swedish authorities suddenly changed the wording they wanted on 50,000 yacht paint cans , Courtaulds Coatings found itself slap in the middle of a crisis . |
| 24 | Excitement flickered inside her like a random spark that found itself landing in a pile of dry autumn leaves as she hardly dared consider the possibilities and what they might mean for her . |
| 25 | SCRAM found itself caught in the middle between those who felt nonviolent protest was the only way and those who really wanted to see the whole place go up in smoke . |
| 26 | I 'd hardly gone into the room when there was a cry as a woman found you slumped in a seat . ’ |
| 27 | Although they discovered they had hardly a single taste in common , he was nonetheless a witty and amusing host and she found herself laughing in a way she had not done for a considerable time . |
| 28 | Following BILL HICKS ' recent ‘ it does n't matter who you vote for , the government always gets it ’ rant against the American presidential campaign in these pages , we invited him to sit in a room on election night with STEPHEN DALTON and explain why he 's mellowed to the idea of Clinton |
| 29 | he continued to teach at Chelsea School of Art , and has also taught at the Royal Academy Schools since 1975 when Peter Greenham invited him to teach in the Life Room . |
| 30 | One day , when Sam found her weeping in a corner nursing a black eye , he told her she had got to stop . |