Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She hooked me and took me in tow . |
| 2 | DETECTIVES are hunting two youths who kidnapped a woman driver , sexually assaulted her and abandoned her in a burning car . |
| 3 | Caroline jerked her hand back , and Nicolo caught it and held it in his . |
| 4 | After she had gone upstairs Carolyn collected them and put them in a jar on the mantelpiece . |
| 5 | They grabbed the garments and escaped but were spotted by police in a patrol car who followed them but lost them in Litherland several miles away . |
| 6 | he passed out that killed him and found him in the garden , it took four years to find him |
| 7 | But come the morning I do n't suppose she sprayed it , gelled it and covered it in cans full of failed meringue , which made her hands curl . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps he touched it while helping her in the kitchen … putting the knives away ’ |
| 9 | I tossed the wallet into the high grass and counted the money again before I folded it and put it in my pocket . |
| 10 | I took the cheque , folded it and put it in the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 11 | Sarah finished the washing-up and , taking off her apron , folded it and placed it in one of the table drawers . |
| 12 | She folded it and stood it in the comer behind the music centre . |
| 13 | He was right , of course , she knew that , but she picked up the brandy Mick got her and downed it in one , then hovered on the edge of her seat until he gave up and walked her home . |
| 14 | Of course , at last a train got him and killed him in a horrible way . |
| 15 | I paid for three plants ( £4 ) and when I got home , cleaned them and put them in two of my tanks . |
| 16 | He even took them and put them in the litter-bin . |
| 17 | When he noticed that my clothes were wet he took them and hung them in front of a large iron fire . |
| 18 | It nauseated him and wakened him in the night with a palpitating heart . |
| 19 | Cecil Jackson has been jailed for life for the murder of his wife : he strangled her and dumped her in a bath of acid . |
| 20 | " In his seventh year his [ foster ] father took him and placed him in the care of a man of experience and promptly sent him abroad with him to learn foreign languages and begin at once to study books . |
| 21 | Then the bruiser produced a letter , the bearded man gave him a bit of a stony look , but took it and put it in his wallet . |
| 22 | Aye stood there and mind one halloween , the boys took it and set it in front of 's door . |
| 23 | The pike rushed at it , bit it and left it in disgust . |
| 24 | By that time her clothes were dry , and we brought them in and I ironed them and hung them in the sun again , this time to air . |
| 25 | The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter . |
| 26 | At the end of the summer , a beautiful girl passed , and she saw the tall weed , and plucked it and put it in her dress , where it blushed a glorious red and died content ; the weed on the bank saw it die , and laughed , and reflected that it would live till the next year . |