Example sentences of "['s] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Garrett 's decision to set up in the business of metal detector manufacture was a brave one for there were in his immediate locale several rival ‘ cottage industries ’ vying to capture a share of the young and burgeoning market . |
| 2 | Mett 's luck ran out in the final . |
| 3 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 4 | Mrs Doran 's lips drew back in a snarl . |
| 5 | Although a Private Members Bill , it had been included in the Government 's programme set out in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 6 | His eyes were back on the road and he did not see Madeleine 's mouth turn down in a pout . |
| 7 | Anthea kicked the sand with perfect , active little toes and Wilkie 's girl lay down in the shadow of the boat , pulling him down after her , putting an arm over his sweaty waist , claiming . |
| 8 | Rob 's laughter rang out in the cosy room , the faint white lines around his eyes wrinkling against his winter tan . |
| 9 | ‘ So , late on the Sunday night , with your father 's body propped up in the Rolls , you drive to Streatley , move a few boxes out of the deep-freeze and put your father in . |
| 10 | The fact that so many of hierarchy 's problems show up in the form of individual misbehavior has led to one of the most widespread illusions in business , namely that a company 's managerial leadership can be significantly improved solely by doing psychotherapeutic work on the personalities and attitudes of its managers . |
| 11 | Her job is to push Cabinet ministers ‘ to do what is right ’ ; this involves reminding them of the Government 's strategy laid down in the manifestos and combating what she regards as the inertia inherent in departments . |
| 12 | He was the seventh seed in the men 's championship to go out in the first two rounds , a record for early exits at the tournament . |
| 13 | He was the seventh seed in the men 's championship to go out in the first two rounds , a record for early exits at the tournament . |
| 14 | This boy 's uncle 's firm ended up in the clutches of Guy Sterne 's company , and they were annihilated ! ’ |
| 15 | The situation in the traditional poem , as exemplified by Sidney , is an I — She one , where the pronouns reveal the gap between the lover and his mistress ; in Donne , as I have shown elsewhere , l it is an I-Thou , and above all a We/Us/Our relationship , where the lovers exist , after the consummation , as a unit , a model to others , from which point Donne 's wit takes off in a brilliant sequence of rhetorical strategies . |
| 16 | Summer 's approach spelt out in a breezy spin on Paisley . |
| 17 | Jotan 's hand came out in a roundhouse swing , and the dwarf fell against the wall upon which the staging was supported and slid down , his head lolling . |
| 18 | Albert 's philosophies crop up in the White House 's cancer policy paper , which is to be as a blueprint for everything from pesticides to pills . |
| 19 | Her father 's face screwed up in a mask of hatred . |
| 20 | Omi 's face lighted up in a vivid smile . |
| 21 | Champs ' plans go back in the melting pot |