Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tired and confused after the journey , I followed the servant into a large building , where she left me in a sitting-room . |
| 2 | If something unexpected happens during an inner journey — perhaps one of your guides will appear when you were expecting your inner child , or you find yourself in a cave rather than on a riverbank — go with your own experience . |
| 3 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 4 | The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar . |
| 5 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 6 | It really should n't work , but the wretched book is so irresistible that I devoured it in a day , fighting off friends and strangers who fell on it like vultures on a carcass the moment it was cast aside with a happy sigh . ’ |
| 7 | It is important that I put myself in a position to be able to give you the best possible advice . |
| 8 | Now that I seek myself in a serpent |
| 9 | I got so tired of having juice pouring into my bag that I take it in a little lemonade bottle now . |
| 10 | McAllion ) very seriously and I suggest that we debate them in a sensible manner . |
| 11 | No sooner are we out of Eden than we find ourselves in a field stained with a brother 's blood ( 4.1–16 ) . |
| 12 | We needed to go faster so we left him in a field , alive or dead . |
| 13 | The Olympic athletes , the cricketers and the tennis seeds are just playing games , although one can hope that they do it in a sporting fashion . |
| 14 | she said no , Jean said oh I ca n't walk that , have a bloody heart attack she says , so they put her in a trolley |
| 15 | ’ So they kept us in a few days . |
| 16 | Lovelock sees this dual function as a vital bridge , but others argue that it puts him in an invidious and altogether too powerful position . |
| 17 | What is most important , however , is that he embodies them in a distinction , crucially important for his thought , between two sorts of science : ‘ indefinite science ’ , which ‘ consists in the knowledge of the causes of all things ’ , and the study of some ‘ limited ’ question about the ‘ cause of some determined appearance ’ such as heat . |
| 18 | Going through Joe 's mind as he mounted the stairs were thoughts which were very similar , except that he expressed his in a slightly different way . |
| 19 | The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position . |
| 20 | We shall return to the second part of the old horseman 's description : here it is necessary to emphasize that he used it in an exceptional way . |
| 21 | Once he read something in a paper about Bella ; she seemed to have done rather well . |
| 22 | I tell them that I have the heart of a small boy and I keep it in a jar on my desk ’ |
| 23 | The cottagers of Pook 's Common used to have grazing rights but I 'm the only one to keep an animal now and I keep mine in a paddock belonging to Tom . |
| 24 | I know , I went , I got some whelks once and that was in Bay , they were lovely whelks and I put 'em in a bucket and er did n't think and now I used to put some flour in with 'em . |
| 25 | And I saw him in a month , and he took the bandage off and me arm flopped of course . |
| 26 | ‘ It takes , they say , seven years to make an electrician ; and I did it in a fortnight . ’ |
| 27 | Finally , one day a boy called Charlie bawled out , ‘ Nigger ! ’ at me and I chased him in a fury . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She barked back , the door slid open wide enough for me to enter and I found myself in a roomful of dames all with rigor mortis of the third-finger-of-the-left-hand . |
| 30 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |