Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I found them in an old file . |
| 32 | I found her in a large day-room where groups of elderly ladies sat in plastic-covered armchairs . |
| 33 | I found it in an unexpected place . |
| 34 | He enjoys it all with equal enthusiasm , and when I visited him in a small hut on Denham airfield where he was instructing ab initio pilots in Cessna 172s I detected the same dedication , pride and affection he has for all his aviation exploits . |
| 35 | I caught it in the other hand . |
| 36 | When I found her the other side of my desk I told her in no uncertain terms I was n't having anything to do with it . |
| 37 | ‘ I would n't kick out anyone who did n't perform , but when they came back I would make sure I put them in a safe place , ’ he says . |
| 38 | I have to dress in my sweaty , dirty clothes and go back down to the kitchen , grumbling while she makes me a coffee , and I complain about my wet boots and she gives me a fresh pair of William 's socks to wear and I put them on and drink my coffee and whine about never being allowed to spend the night and tell her how just once I 'd like to wake up here in the morning , and have a nice , civilised breakfast with her , sitting on the sunny balcony outside the bedroom windows , but she makes me sit down while she laces my boots up , then takes my coffee cup off me and sends me out the back door and says I 've got two minutes before she arms the alarm and puts the infrared lights on stand-by so I have to go back the way I came , over the estate wall and through the wood and down into the stream where I get both feet wet and cold and I fall going up the bank and get all muddy and eventually drag myself up and through the hedge , scratching my cheek and tearing my polo-neck and then trudging across the field through heavy rain and more mud and finally getting to the car and panicking when I ca n't find the car keys before remembering I put them in the button-down back pocket of the jeans for safety instead of the side pocket like I usually do , and then having to put some dead branches under the front wheels because the fucking car 's stuck and finally getting away and home and even in the street light I can see what a mess of the pale upholstery my muddy clothes have made . |
| 39 | My best dress that she 'd sewed , my blouses with her embroidery : I put them in the hard square leather case . |
| 40 | I was bringing my own but I put it in the wrong pocket of my coat and it fell through the lining and smashed . " |
| 41 | I soaked it in a hot bath last night ; it should be okay now . ’ |
| 42 | I isolated them in a holding pool and treated them with salt baths , but they all died . |
| 43 | There are even times when I enjoy it in a masochistic kind of way — those are the times when you are really running free , bouncing along in a relaxed and easy manner , with the mind and the body in tune . |
| 44 | ‘ I screwed her in a hot-air balloon . |
| 45 | Can I interest you in an aerial photograph of your house ? ’ |
| 46 | I kick her in the mental shins . |
| 47 | I ca n't stand it , I hear it in the early hours . ’ |
| 48 | ‘ I tell you in the Welsh town of Abercwmboi [ the accent was bogus Welsh ] |
| 49 | I cooked it in a cheap saucepan . |
| 50 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ |
| 51 | ‘ I have to confess that I find nothing in the current stock of recent coursebooks to compare in originality or methodological advance with the vastly popular Headway series … ’ — Coursebooks for the '90s , EFL Gazette |
| 52 | ‘ You see , I find myself in a similar position . ’ |
| 53 | So I settled myself in a small tavern just down the street . |
| 54 | I I I recorded it in a closed classroom during the lunch-time playtime |
| 55 | Gareth took a step or two after them and I called him in an explosive croak , ‘ Gareth , ’ and he stopped and turned immediately and came back , bending down . |
| 56 | I write in the past tense because I lost it in an arctic spell of weather and for some inexplicable reason have yet to replace it . |
| 57 | So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force . |
| 58 | ‘ Lucky thing I saw you in the rear mirror just as I was driving off ! ’ |
| 59 | ‘ I saw you in the High Street the other day , ’ he would say , in a tone that suggested that it was quite impossible for Henry to have seen him . |
| 60 | I mean I 've filled in a few forms for them but I mean probably you 're a passive owner like me in the sense that I do n't go and actively trade them , er I keep them in a long term investment , and that 's it . |