Example sentences of "in [pron] [noun sg] [coord] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I just rushed out of the pub and started runnin' , then you got in me way and knocked me over and sprained me ankle . ’ |
| 2 | I sat in my pew and heard him prate on for at least an hour and a half . |
| 3 | ‘ As it happens , ’ says John , ‘ I have more respect for men like Galbraith who are at least prepared to speak their minds , than for those who smiled in my presence but protested I was ‘ not a local man ’ . ’ |
| 4 | On my return I developed a pain in my chest and rang my GP . |
| 5 | I put the folder down in my lap and put my forehead on the folder . |
| 6 | ‘ Put the Bronica in my rucsac and claimed it went down with you . ' |
| 7 | ‘ They 'd begun to despair of me , so one of the lecturers ’ he laughs , ‘ bunged a camera in my hand and suggested I go out and take some photos instead . |
| 8 | My only support at the time came from a Nigerian girl and a Ugandan Asian girl who were also in my class and shared my deep sense of alienation from our environment . |
| 9 | By then , I had n't got a wireless but she declared that it was an absolutely necessary thing for someone in my situation and brought me a red one , of the kind that worked on batteries thankfully , not the kind you had to carry for miles to be recharged ! |
| 10 | I removed my cigarettes as he stretched his hand toward the pack , stuck one in my face and lit it . |
| 11 | That afternoon I sat in my room and unpacked my things . |
| 12 | I had just finished building a 16-track studio in my house and asked him to come and have a go on that equipment that even the very big studios did n't have . |
| 13 | Sergeant Moustaine punched me in the face , stuffed my shitty underpants in my mouth and ordered me to run around the parade ground holding my kitbag above my head . |
| 14 | ‘ The first time I held those keys , I put them in my mouth and felt my bones had turned to gold , ’ she announces . |
| 15 | ‘ Then I felt something in my mouth and spat it out . |
| 16 | I put it in my mouth and swallowed it . |
| 17 | The following morning I put the loose pieces in my bag and took them to school . |
| 18 | There was the room with the twelve iron beds in it , the nice girls , the terrible girls , the time they all got nits in their hair and had their heads shaved . |
| 19 | After the sixth time , Henry replaced the yarrow stalks in their cylinder and consulted his notes . |
| 20 | Flaubert delighted in their presence and gave them money . |
| 21 | From the very beginning Popes took a great interest in their development and encouraged them . |
| 22 | He 'd locked himself in their room and drunk himself insensible . |
| 23 | Jane Pargeter slumped down in her armchair and crossed her legs angrily . |
| 24 | To his surprise , Molly threw away the dregs of tea in her beaker and held it out for him to fill with the frothing liquor . |
| 25 | She saw the key in her door and lost her temper . |
| 26 | The tie of the white gown she had been given to wear caught in her hair and pulled it . |
| 27 | The elderly woman separated a skein of red silk from the bundle in her lap and gave it to her . |
| 28 | She sat on the edge of the bed in her dressing-gown and towelled her hair furiously . |
| 29 | Before Nicola Hammond had gone for her walk with Gunter Schmidt , she had taken all the money in her wallet and lined her bra with it . |
| 30 | An incessant internal monologue occupied her most of the morning , during which , by turns , she tried to convince herself that Fen 's effect on her was all in her imagination or berated herself for being fickle . |