Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun] in [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was somehow reversing that pivotal moment in my eidetic career eight years before , when Mr Broadhurst had bade me look in his waistcoat pocket and then made his move . |
| 2 | After much investigation , he discovered that it was n't a British resident at all , but a Russian bird that must somehow have been blown off course from its migratory route during the hurricane-force storms of the previous year — the storms that had immediately preceded its arrival in our village car park . |
| 3 | Pat had stressed its appeal in his manuscript so , on a snatched afternoon 's climbing , I met Don Sargeant and we set out to investigate . |
| 4 | She has won her spurs in her role as Minister of Health , where she has frequently had to appear in place of her beleaguered former boss , William Waldegrave . |
| 5 | After the president 's office had released his controversial decree without any reference to a ‘ special order ’ of rule — the provision that had most alarmed the legislature — observers said it was not clear whether he had revised the decree to meet the demands of the Constitutional Court and parliament or had exaggerated its harshness in his weekend speech . |
| 6 | Her success in this enterprise had fortified her in her career as psychotherapist , had given her confidence in her right to pursue it , in the rightness of her pursuing it . |
| 7 | Yes , it was , how extraordinary , it was her own ex-patient Hilda Stark , diseuse , comedienne and would-be infanticide , whose career had been violently interrupted when in a fit of madness ( to put it non-technically ) she had nearly strangled her baby in its cradle : and here she was , laughing and drinking champagne , a guest ; how improper , how indiscreet ; was she married to somebody , had she come as somebody 's wife ? |
| 8 | For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence . |
| 9 | The governor had moved his guests back from the illuminated pedestal to show the line and glazing of the Ming vase to its best advantage , and because he had turned his head in their direction to explain a point , he did n't see the gibbon streak across the marble floor on all fours . |
| 10 | I 've had my fingers in his mouth for ages but I could n't move it . " |
| 11 | It is not in my body as it might appear to others ( if they put their tongue in my mouth ) but does appear to me ( who has got my tongue in my mouth ) that I have pains . |
| 12 | It may be no accident that Manchester United have shown their hand in their attempt to lure David Hirst to Old Trafford . |
| 13 | There were too many people about to maintain the level of intimacy that seemed to have taken them unawares jut now and , thankful that a further dilemma had been averted , she gratefully buried her face in her mug . |
| 14 | It had buried its adze in his fontanelle , and was working the thing backwards and forwards methodically to split open his skull . |
| 15 | He 'd been er had an accident in the quarry some time ago and he was working in the helping as a mate or something in the carpenter 's shop and he he must have been h must have had his hands in our pile of finished products and er Well partly finished products and er he er he was caught one of the cos er these castings there was a an edge to them you know , the joint of the the mould that came together sort of thing . |
| 16 | Bunny buried his face in his beer and I only just caught what he said over the noise from the band . |
| 17 | I 've got his diaries in my room ; he kept a diary from the age of thirteen . ’ |
| 18 | No , where 's my diary , I 've got , I 've got his name in my diary |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't care if Satan 's got his teeth in your bum ! |
| 20 | On ‘ One More Time ’ , the single which launched his relationship with Germany 's Logic Records , Blake simply recites the first verse of the garage classic ‘ Let No Man Put Asunder ’ and sounds like her 's got his tongue in your ear . |
| 21 | Mark have you got your jigsaw in your drawer ? |
| 22 | You 've got your thumb in my soup ! |
| 23 | ‘ There are n't any , look , I mean , honestly … you 'd be doing us such a — you see , the Duchess of York 's got your name in her speech and we do n't want to … |
| 24 | When you 've got your bandage in your pack , I 've explained to you before , you open it up in the first aid kit it 's sterile , yeah , you open it up by the |
| 25 | See you 've got your purse in your bag you better give me the money |
| 26 | Well you 've got your carrot in your mouth , just finish eating it . |
| 27 | We were tremendously encouraged by the active support we received throughout the battle from so many customers and employees , and a comfortable majority of your fellow shareholders have now demonstrated their confidence in our future , for Anglo-Welsh were only offered a further 6.7 per cent of shares to add to the 29.75 per cent they already owned . |
| 28 | The Manchu had replaced his sword in his sash . |
| 29 | We watched him creating that knitting , talking about colour and going round and looking at the things which had inspired his imagination in his designing . |
| 30 | A young post-graduate student told his professor he had fiddled his statistics in his thesis , risking his recently-gained M.Sc . |