Example sentences of "in the [noun] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My only alternative is to give it slack line , laying the rod in the rests and hoping it will swim out of its own accord . |
| 2 | So anyhow , I flew in the tail and found it to be very draughty , very cold , very uncomfortable and pretty darn boring ’ . |
| 3 | He had worked for a year in the Ukraine and said he liked the people there more than those he had met in the West - they were more open and friendly . |
| 4 | Assistant mechanic Jonas found a chip pan on fire in the galley and put it out — this could have caused serious problems for the salvage attempt by a tug on the way from Lowestoft . |
| 5 | When I turn in the saddle and point it out to him with vigorous gestures , his curiosity is aroused . |
| 6 | We drilled a small hole in the bracket and secured it with a nut and bolt to the front panel . |
| 7 | So you buy the Watchtower in the hope that they 'll go away and no come back , knowing full well that they will and that when they do , you 'll hide in the loo and pretend you 're out . |
| 8 | You know I very carefully picked up my glasses and put them in the case and put it in my in there |
| 9 | well if I 've left it there to call off I 'm not gon na put it in the case and shove it away |
| 10 | ‘ First thing : you ca n't just haul off and smack a dog in the snout and expect him to turn tail and run away . ’ |
| 11 | Two weeks later , to my horror , Mr Taylor stopped me in the corridor and asked me if I 'd consider doing another talk — to another class . |
| 12 | On Friday at school he passed Nutty in the corridor and gave her a fierce stare to remind her about their appointment and she said , ‘ I have n't forgotten , ’ in an aggrieved voice . |
| 13 | The most attractive feature is that the directors can borrow back half the money in the scheme and invest it in their business . |
| 14 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 15 | Theodora took a couple of handfuls of the chicken pellets from the split bag in the hall and broadcast them over the gravel . |
| 16 | ‘ Luib came , and the captains overpowered their captors in the hall and joined us . |
| 17 | Yeah it 's about ten of us at this party put the bottle in the middle and spin it and whoever the the open ends comes at is the the previous spinner 's got ta kiss that . |
| 18 | Well do n't you see it going past , if you stood in the middle and watched it , there it goes ? |
| 19 | Griffith now heated his rods in the middle and drew them down to thinner and thinner fibres which after cooling he also broke in tension . |
| 20 | It had a deep brim which widened towards the chin so that in profile the face would be hidden , and before she put it on Sarah brushed her unruly hair until it looked smooth , then she parted it in the middle and drew it tightly back . |
| 21 | ‘ Some bloke tried to stop us jamming in the lobby and gave us loads of attitude , ’ he said . |
| 22 | His hands were everywhere , so I kicked him hard in the ankle and told him exactly where to go . |
| 23 | If you just put the figures in the calculator and write it down and it 's wrong or this one times that one . |
| 24 | in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth |
| 25 | After fulling , the cloth was well rinsed and , now reduced from 35″ to 27″ in width , was taken to the tenter ground to be stretched to shape by fastening hooks in the selvedge and attaching them to the tenter frames . |
| 26 | And er he 's two years in the army and thinks he 'll stay because there 's no life here for anybody , so he 's gon na stay on . |
| 27 | I took down our saddle bags from the hook in the wall and flung them on the bed . |
| 28 | Do you come alive slowly in the mornings or do you leap out of bed searching for a pencil to capture your best thoughts ? |
| 29 | He used to sit there in the mornings and clock us in with a stop-watch . |
| 30 | He also had to watch out for the bears that pounced on you if you stepped on the lines in the pavement , and the killer bats that hung upside down in the shadows under the roof of the railway arch , and the rats that came out of the cracks in the brickwork and infected you with their deadly diseases simply by breathing out into the same air that you breathed in . |