Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought they 'd hidden me away in a cupboard . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 4 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 5 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 6 | My children have caught him lovingly in a nickname . |
| 7 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 8 | Whoever had brought her here must have known the place ; you could n't have picked it out in a hurry . |
| 9 | I got involved with one of the servants I told you about , that had pawed me about in a cupboard . |
| 10 | A friend has told me that you 've satirized me thoroughly in a story and spilled some confidences about my wife . |
| 11 | Andrew 's locked her up in a convent where no one can touch her . " |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The guide , who has driven them there in a minibus , naturally counts heads before he starts on the return journey . |
| 14 | Eee-Eee found it up in a tree where another squirrel was living in it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The myth of the entrepreneurial hero is as old as America and has served us well in a number of ways . |
| 17 | ‘ Fate has thrown them together in a way which could have led to conflict , resentment and bitterness . |
| 18 | After the doctor , nurses and others have rushed to the scene to settle the girl with a syringe and have taken her off in an ambulance , Mrs Turpin goes home . |
| 19 | Yeah but I filled it , I 've botched it up in a couple of places but that 's beside the point , it does n't matter . |