Example sentences of "in a [noun] [coord] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before they had time to say a word , she had rushed across the room , enveloped Dimity in a bear-hug and kissed her soundly on each cheek . |
| 2 | The first is that of Aphrodite and Adonis : Aphrodite , the great Goddess , hides the child Adonis in a chest and gives him to Persephone , Goddess of the Underworld , who falls in love with Adonis and refuses to give him back . |
| 3 | Then he ran out in a panic and said he was a doctor and thought I was dying . |
| 4 | Sister Duggan had Eileen , s few belongings in a case and handed them to Liam . |
| 5 | When it fails to rise to the occasion , I no longer get rattled and threaten to chop it off with a pair of barber 's scissors , tie it up in a sack and drop it down a deep , dark well . |
| 6 | The effort exhausted her and Pat wrapped her in a blanket and carried her to Maureen 's car . |
| 7 | I once took all eleven of my Dad 's angelfish to school in a jam-jar and poured them into the pond to keep the goldfish company . |
| 8 | And from somewhere beneath a cupboard she produced an enormous canvas draped in a sheet and showed it to me . |
| 9 | " We would not allow a farmer to stick something in a cow and chase it three times around five fields before it died " , Gummer said . |
| 10 | Yes he was , you see and he used to come down , you know , and everybody 's family waiting to go into that tiny tiny little surgery but I do n't know if it 's the same now and the door half open in er well , anyway , still er he , he , he , he used to put something in a bottle and fill it up with water some liquid |
| 11 | Never put flavoured drinks in a bottle and give them only to quench thirst . |
| 12 | He saw things in a flash and put them down in a sentence or at most a paragraph . |
| 13 | Moira Billington , prosecuting , said the brothers had advertised cars in a newspaper and sold them from their home . |
| 14 | Would you write it like an actual , can you fit it in a diary or have you got to write it , the date , just , just like a proper diary ? |
| 15 | Apparently this new method had been tried out down south and it seemed ideal for the temperamental Orkney climate because you harvested when it was green and then you put it in a pit and packed it with a tractor and then you left it until it turned black and rotted and then you cut it up in chunks and fed it to the cattle . |
| 16 | Jackie was asked if she would take a Thoroughbred mare who had been abandoned in a field and give her a home as a brood mare — but part of the deal was that she also took the pony who had been left with her . |
| 17 | This was her diagnosis after she had pulled his foot this way and that , in a manner that brought Seb out in a sweat and had him groaning in anguish . |
| 18 | But she was still smiling at me , so I just tied it in a knot and left it . |
| 19 | But now you are to leave his land peaceably — ‘ A murmur rose in a crescendo and drowned him out . |
| 20 | As quick as a flash , Mildred pulled out a lasso of rope which she had hidden in a drawer and slipped it over the astonished girl 's head and shoulders , yanking it tightly enough to bind her arms to her sides . |
| 21 | grab it in a pile and chuck it on there ! |
| 22 | Assemble a collection of long objects ( or any objects will do ) in a pile and say they represent a number , e.g. four . |
| 23 | He was speaking in shorthand in a sense and made it very clear that Scottish circumstances would be taken fully into account , and that I will be reaching a decision in due course . ’ |
| 24 | That was we were using that white stuff , you know thirty , thirty six ? off his hand where it had all dried and he rolled it up in a ball and hit me in the face with it , that hurt . |
| 25 | The community church started in a home and to wear them would have been distinctly odd . |
| 26 | He picked up the reins in a temper and slapped them hard across the horse 's back . |
| 27 | Put her in a hole and stoned her and covered her up with earth before she was dead . |
| 28 | and if there 's plant out in the sun for one we can put one in a pot and keep it in the kitchen |
| 29 | Put in a bowl or put it in a plastic |
| 30 | We put it to bed in a bowl and cover it in bulb fibre like a blanket . |