Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he asked me out in the end . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The administrator 's greeting made everyone else in the room turn round to look . |
| 4 | And for at least one parent , there was an awareness that sometimes children 's sense of justice can be hurt by parents not taking some of the blame : ‘ If a kid arrives late for school , or is not properly dressed , then that 's not the kid 's fault , it 's the mother 's fault , or whoever got them out in the morning . |
| 5 | Four days later found me out in the garden learning the ‘ Western roll ’ over a beautifully ( if hastily ) made high jump frame . |
| 6 | So I phoned them up in the afternoon and I said the bicycle that my friend Mr reported yesterday afternoon is still in the bushes . |
| 7 | Yes she still phoned me up in the morning and at vast expense to tell me how awful everything was . |
| 8 | And if you phoned me early in the year it must have been just after we got the V W. |
| 9 | Ivy caught me alone in the passage to say how much I must miss Donald . |
| 10 | Stubbly paused for a moment , then rocked forward on his heels and prodded me gently in the chest with a forefinger . |
| 11 | He prodded me playfully in the chest . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We also found ourselves together in the middle of the LA riots — two days of mayhem without a cop in sight — so I guess that brought us closer together ! |
| 14 | A moment later he found himself back in the top of the tree . |
| 15 | However , with record companies realising the appeal and financial benefits of bands like Sabbath having a line-up as close to the original as possible , Neil found himself out in the cold after Geezer Butler was reunited with his former partners . |
| 16 | In the same year , the tsar involved himself personally in the foundation of the reformist journal Military Miscellany . |
| 17 | ‘ Is that why you were spying on her when I caught you out in the hallway ? |
| 18 | I mean it 's such a variety and it 's involved both face to face and direct sales that er er I know I stopped you right in the middle of your spiel there . |
| 19 | So I followed you over , and found you here in the cottage . |
| 20 | It would have been impolite to refuse so Elisa found herself back in the sitting room . |
| 21 | MOTORIST Nicky Lockyer left her dog in her car while she scraped ice off the windscreen and found herself out in the cold for two hours . |
| 22 | ‘ Not my sister , ’ she drew herself up in the chair . |
| 23 | Anthea drew herself up in the chair and her dark eyes flashed like rapiers at Montgomery . |
| 24 | She had been one of the founder members of the Institutional Management Association in Yorkshire and later involved herself additionally in the Hotel & Catering Institute and always kept in contact with the professional association throughout her career . |
| 25 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 26 | He found him out in the garden , sitting on a wooden bench by the pond . |
| 27 | They beat him up in the alleyway , tied his hands and led him off to the Marshalsea . |
| 28 | One of the GIs called for a pen from his friend , caught it deftly in the air and planted his huge boot on the handlebar of Tony 's tricycle to write the address . |
| 29 | In that instant , I brought up my branch , so that he caught it right in the face . |
| 30 | Oliver coiled it slowly in the palm of his hand . |