Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [adv] in a " 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 | She flushed , as if he had caught her out in a social solecism . |
| 4 | Ianthe realised from his triumphant expression that he had caught her out in a mistake and waited with resignation to hear what it was . |
| 5 | What 's more , who 'd have believed he 'd picked her up in a wine bar ? |
| 6 | He was a young Irish American who 'd picked her up in a New York bar a week ago . |
| 7 | My children have caught him lovingly in a nickname . |
| 8 | I should have enjoyed it just as well if I 'd picked it up in a bookshop , by an unknown author . |
| 9 | Whoever had brought her here must have known the place ; you could n't have picked it out in a hurry . |
| 10 | I got involved with one of the servants I told you about , that had pawed me about in a cupboard . |
| 11 | It is saying , and I think everyone agrees , do n't abolish this until you 've thought it through and either provided an alternative or done it again in a different way . ’ |
| 12 | A friend has told me that you 've satirized me thoroughly in a story and spilled some confidences about my wife . |
| 13 | The same scenario had played itself out in a hundred different ways when she was a child . |
| 14 | Andrew 's locked her up in a convent where no one can touch her . " |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ The guide , who has driven them there in a minibus , naturally counts heads before he starts on the return journey . |
| 17 | But while a cruise across the Mediterranean with Clive Kemp had posed no problems at all , the very thought of being alone on a boat with Nathan Bryce for however long it took to sail two thousand miles brought her out in a cold sweat and turned her insides to jelly . |
| 18 | When Margie had mentioned his association with Greg Martin , the financier who had made him the loan which had set him up in a small showroom and enabled him to move the sewing machines out of the living room and into a work room , Hugo became not so much evasive as totally silent . |
| 19 | Although the very thought of court action had brought him out in a cold sweat , the same grittiness which had enabled his father to jump ship and seek a new life now came to his rescue . |
| 20 | Sinead has really pulled it off in a big , bold way here ; her honesty and emotional intensity permeate every bar , every nuance of every lyric . |
| 21 | SINEAD HAS really pulled it off in a big , bold way ; her honesty and emotional intensity permeate every bar , every nuance of every lyric . |
| 22 | Eee-Eee found it up in a tree where another squirrel was living in it . |
| 23 | By the time I had reached Moscow I had exhausted myself physically in a purely sensual relationship with my Leningrad guide , Natasha . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It is no use realizing at the analysis stage that question 3 is ambiguous and all the respondents should be asked it again in a different way . |
| 26 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |
| 27 | The myth of the entrepreneurial hero is as old as America and has served us well in a number of ways . |
| 28 | ‘ Fate has thrown them together in a way which could have led to conflict , resentment and bitterness . |
| 29 | These I was given , but , as I soon discovered , directions which would have taken me there in an almost straight line . |
| 30 | This state she spontaneously pictured as if she had become small , about the size of a jar of marmalade ( this image appeared with a kind of authority ) and had put herself away in a small square recess in a wall , just large enough to hold her . |