Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 2 | Her whole body trembled as he took her in his arms . |
| 3 | Where , in competition with the liquidator of an insolvent company , a creditor of the company was successful in obtaining a renewal of the certificate ( though he had neither right to , nor possession of , the premises in respect of which the certificate was granted ) and admitted that he held it in trust for the company 's creditors , he was ordered to deliver up the certificate to the liquidator : Wm . |
| 4 | I noted that he pronounced it in eighteenth-century fashion : ‘ m ’ verse' . |
| 5 | Soon her father returned and he continued it in greater detail . |
| 6 | He gave me a self-conscious grin and then yelped as someone thumped him in the back . |
| 7 | The emphasis on pace bowling meant that he found himself in a rather curious position . |
| 8 | He turned to look at Myeloski , peering urgently out of the window as the traffic stacked up and made movement impossible , and knew that he had nothing in common with these people , nothing that could be shared because of his blood . |
| 9 | I thought that they appointed somebody in charge . |
| 10 | In 1985 , when Japanese chip makers last started slashing prices , America 's government insisted that they raise them in order to protect the ( virtually non-existent ) American DRAM industry . |
| 11 | The old Frenchman was delighted with the tobacco and soap and he insisted that I join him in a drink . |
| 12 | Which meant if I did it in year three , which I 'd liked to , then you 'd obviously equal or went into drama . |
| 13 | ‘ Love at first sight ’ is a very apt description of how I felt when I saw you in church today . ’ |
| 14 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 15 | He looked so gorgeous that she tripped as she reached him in her high red heels , and landed against his hard chest with a gasp of shocked pleasure . |
| 16 | He looked , he thought as he examined himself in the mirror , more than usually hideous . |
| 17 | ‘ I came because I liked what I saw when you passed me in the corridor back in Helsinki . |
| 18 | On the day of the interviews I noticed that Jenny Ball was smartly dressed and in particular I also saw that she was wearing a wedding ring ; an item of jewellery that she seldom wore when I saw her in school on other days . |
| 19 | In the chemistry I did you seem to me to be terribly empirical , you had an inorganic substance and you had to learn absolute by heart what it did if you put it in water and you heated it and you did this that and the other . |
| 20 | Commenting on the incident , Nguza said that it confirmed him in his decision to suspend the conference . |
| 21 | Though my son , that 's my eldest , in the Royal Navy , wrote that he has them in the Pacific . ’ |
| 22 | I said like they say it in films . |
| 23 | ‘ Right , ’ he said as he settled himself in the chair . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Marsh , I wonder if I might accept your offer of help , ’ she said when she found him in the vestry . |
| 25 | erm it 's concerning the photograph , and she just wondered if you had anything in mind for the photograph or if , if you wanted to leave it up to the press ? |
| 26 | Sultry looks had been a speciality of hers for some years , so much so that Matthew sometimes wondered whether she practised them in front of a mirror for ten minutes each day . |