Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 2 | Contemporaries distrusted them in the belief that they brought an unsavoury speculative element to the market in stocks . |
| 3 | Other voluntary hospitals with such funds lost them to the Exchequer , which pooled them in a central fund . |
| 4 | When the Philadelphia — now remember this name — when the Philadelphia put into Stornoway in Lewis , and gleaned young boys from the beach , and stowed them in the hold like trade-goods , what constable or what factor raised his arm or his stick to stop the slavers ? |
| 5 | He gave them some thought , then extracted two and stowed them in his hip pocket . |
| 6 | She stripped the bed and put Ruth 's treasures , carefully wrapping the glass , her books and the bear into two cardboard boxes from the supermarket , and stowed them in the bottom of the wardrobe . |
| 7 | She folded his discarded jeans and shirt and stowed them in a locker , then turned his sleeping-bag inside out and shook it . |
| 8 | The two men have different versions of the meeting which followed , and there were no witnesses except for a waiter who interrupted them in the middle of the shouting match and asked if they wanted any sandwiches . |
| 9 | Made them in Leicester , Nottingham , Scotland and then the products that made from them were made in this country , Nottingham , Leicester and Scotland . |
| 10 | The government did indeed make new judicial arrangements for the peasantry , but it made them in 1861 . |
| 11 | You failed them in the election , will you help to keep them afloat now ? |
| 12 | ‘ You nearly expected me in vain , ’ the Friar said . |
| 13 | Tommy gave straight answers and expected them in return . |
| 14 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 16 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 17 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
| 18 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
| 19 | Martha took out the two tiles and laid them in front of him . |
| 20 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
| 21 | Alexandra read the paragraphs through carefully several times , then cut them out and laid them in her desk with his two letters . |
| 22 | I divested myself of all my own French honours and laid them in my elder son 's lap on condition he should be content to be French , as I had discovered I was English . |
| 23 | They had come to see the show and my guilt for neglecting them afterwards was eased by Pam and Kath , also at the show this evening , who entertained them in my absence . |
| 24 | She met me in London wearing a wide-brimmed hat , khaki shorts and a loose white top ; she says she loves showing off , feels her legs are her best feature and that short skirts suit her . |
| 25 | I loved it when a whole pile of notes met me in the morning and I did not surface till lunchtime . |
| 26 | ‘ I know he met me in Florence . |
| 27 | You would n't recognise me if you met me in the bath . ’ |
| 28 | Ashley met me in the Jac that night , listened to my woes , bought me drink when I ran out of money ( I 'm sure I was short-changed at the bar ) even though she probably had less dosh than I did , and listened to my woes all over again when we went back to her mum 's and sat up till God knows when , talking low so we would n't wake Dean in the next room . |
| 29 | My father met me in the kitchen . |
| 30 | She described how she walked around for months ‘ with a pain , almost a physical pain , in my heart ’ ; of how she avoided friends and pulled her hat over her face if she met them in the street ; of how , at last , she knew she must express her thousand emotions about her little grandchild in the way she knew best , in clay . |