Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pron] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought they 'd hidden me away in a cupboard . |
| 2 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 3 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 4 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 5 | His intellectual and emotional itinerary between 1924 and 1927 is the record of a deepening crisis brought on by a growing realisation of the political and social dimension of his current lifestyle , an awareness that his pursuit of academic excellence and success had implicated him personally in a way of life that contradicted , subverted and emasculated the values and beliefs of his own social origins . |
| 6 | She had curled herself up in a corner of the motorspeeder to get some rest , but there was too much adrenalin swimming aimlessly about her system and her eyes kept opening themselves . |
| 7 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 8 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 9 | I got involved with one of the servants I told you about , that had pawed me about in a cupboard . |
| 10 | The same scenario had played itself out in a hundred different ways when she was a child . |
| 11 | She was exhausted ; more so because of the alarmed way she had sprung out of reach whenever Guy had become restless , than from the number of times she had sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever . |
| 12 | By the time I had reached Moscow I had exhausted myself physically in a purely sensual relationship with my Leningrad guide , Natasha . |
| 13 | Although the very thought of court action had brought him out in a cold sweat , the same grittiness which had enabled his father to jump ship and seek a new life now came to his rescue . |
| 14 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 15 | This state she spontaneously pictured as if she had become small , about the size of a jar of marmalade ( this image appeared with a kind of authority ) and had put herself away in a small square recess in a wall , just large enough to hold her . |
| 16 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 17 | The Marines had sent her off in a small wooden-bedded truck that seemed to have no springs or shock-absorbers whatsoever . |