Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pron] [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I met him first in the Lubyanka , that brick lump on Manchester 's Oxford Road that serves as home to the BMC . |
| 2 | I met her later in the pub , shiny-eyed with memories . |
| 3 | I got you some in the thing . |
| 4 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 5 | When the doors closed on the place in which I had dwelled , and I found myself alone in the world of Men , I was in more agony than you could dream exists . |
| 6 | I thought for an incredible moment that I caught something familiar in the sound — but it could n't be . |
| 7 | I picture it safe in the hands |
| 8 | I put them all in the dustbin before Susan can decide to keep them . |
| 9 | I put them all in the deep freeze . |
| 10 | I put my eight in the box , look ! |
| 11 | They clammed up after a bit and would n't show me everything , but he thinks I put it all in the water hoping Harry would get tangled in it . ’ |
| 12 | then I pedalled myself blue in the face on the Exercise Machine . |
| 13 | Mm and I give you some in the box as well so you that 's it , done . |
| 14 | ‘ I felt it all in the car and I enjoyed it . |
| 15 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 16 | See I do I get them right in the class |
| 17 | ‘ But they won through in a dour encounter and I wish them well in the next round . |
| 18 | For your information , if not for your conversion , let me bring you another in the line of startling books which turn upside down all that we ever believed about the Old Testament . |
| 19 | However , this effect may not last , and long-term follow-up is useful to ensure that the patient does not lapse into those unhealthy ways which made him unwell in the first place . |
| 20 | The party has abandoned policies which made it unelectable in the 1980s . |
| 21 | One winter afternoon , while they were rehearsing , something happened which stunned everyone involved in the play . |
| 22 | The blubber which keeps them warm in the water acts as an overly-effective insulator on land , and they can literally cook in their own fat if they are not kept cool . |
| 23 | Our barrack room was warm and we had a stove in the middle which kept us warm in the night . |
| 24 | SCOTLAND will bid to lift their third Triple Crown in nine years when they travel to Twickenham on Saturday week with the same line-up which did them proud in the 20-0 victory over Wales . |
| 25 | The two men rocked her : good , hard , vigorous rocking which had her bouncing in the saddle like a rodeo cowgirl . |
| 26 | Area 7 champions Royal Berkshire had to work had for their 3–0 victory over Riverside , Chiswick , which makes them unique in the event with maximum points from four matches . |
| 27 | The Craigie Mains stud prospered and James Kilpatrick learned the skills of breeding horses and of preparing them to look their best in the highly competitive show ring . |
| 28 | An essay in the latest issue of the Microprocessor Report makes the point that the chips that are pressing the clock speed argument in their design such as Mips , HP and DEC are the ones winning the performance not the people such as Sun , IBM and Motorola who contend its all in the instructions per cycle . |
| 29 | Then , not wanting to return to bed , she made herself comfortable in the wicker armchair , her eyes gazing on her husband 's sleeping face . |
| 30 | In fact her resistance to the ‘ sense ’ of the question is due to the fact that she understands it first in the context of legal discourse : ‘ She had a brief glimpse of a mediaeval bureaucrat … issuing a proclamation : ‘ From 23.59 on the 16th April 1340 , dipthongisation will be optional in the County of Kent ’ ' ( 5 ) . |