Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] in [art] " 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 | The careful and precise manner in which these financial arrangements were laid down suggests that many who served saw the war as essentially a business enterprise holding out the promise of substantial rewards for those who were fortunate or who distinguished themselves in the field . |
| 3 | He took Ellie by her forearm , and marched her down the landing and the painted uncarpeted stairs into the living room , where he sat her in the big chair in the corner . |
| 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 | Although I left him in no doubts about my opinion of his behaviour over the past few weeks , I was n't quite as brutal with him as I might have been . |
| 6 | Yeah , I never though of that and I doubt if I get it now , all I think was well I know that I got it in the magazine rack |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | As my husband was then a consultant there , and involved in research in rheumatology , it was only natural that I joined him in the research field . |
| 9 | ‘ I was n't going to unroll the damn things , ’ continued Lydia , ‘ so I banged them in the oven , humming insouciantly the while and served them up all bubbling hot . |
| 10 | ‘ I did n't want him — I did n't want him to come near me — so I locked myself in the bathroom , with Gary-I did n't know what else to do . |
| 11 | ‘ Your tea is ruined so I threw it in the bin . |
| 12 | Once I met him in the West End and we went to the pictures . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Once I met him in the local pub , ’ Patrick Newell recalled . |
| 14 | She had to make sure that she avoided him in the future and never gave him the chance to pull any more stunts like that ! |
| 15 | How you going to know exactly where the boundaries go or i in between some land-lock countries that you got it in the right position |
| 16 | The sister was n't in her office when she went back , so she left it in the middle of the desk : ‘ Miss Carolyn Tanner , care of Clare ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ So you married him in the end , did you ? ’ |
| 18 | You will remember that we met him in the last commercial . |
| 19 | He did not say what it was but it may be that we found it in the safe this morning . |
| 20 | We needed to go faster so we left him in a field , alive or dead . |
| 21 | ‘ So we kept it in the family , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
| 23 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 24 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 25 | ’ So they kept us in a few days . |
| 26 | Fru Møller , who resented the embargo on her taste within the house , and frequently complained of the frustration she endured at having to maintain the past in all its detail , enjoyed the discipline the White Garden imposed , the contacts that it brought her in the gardening world , and the admiration its unusual beauty reflected upon her . |
| 27 | That he wrote it in the winter of 1940 – 41 gave an indication of the insecurity which underlay his apparent aloofness . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | hinting that he had plenty in the bank . |
| 30 | The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position . |