Example sentences of "[vb past] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His abuse beat in her face like rain so heavy that it forced shut her eyes . |
| 2 | You could see the pulse beat in his neck . |
| 3 | He had walked along this track with Sandy , arm in arm , and as the wind beat in his face he recalled the weather had been similar . |
| 4 | The two Highlanders grinned as if they understood every word , Carey smirked whilst Scawsby gave that neighing laugh which made the blood beat in my temples . |
| 5 | Given that these ‘ older ’ users are more likely to have worked and to inject heroin , rather than smoke it , the sample is skewed away from the archetypal ‘ young unemployed heroin chaser ’ profiled in our prevalence surveys . |
| 6 | Chairs decorously ranged in their places , the white cloth gone . |
| 7 | Very similar to the example that Bill provided in his hand outs . |
| 8 | Shrivelled in their pots . |
| 9 | The steering-wheel juddered in his hands . |
| 10 | Returning to Falmouth Street in his new acquisition — and already encountering some resistance to engaging first gear — Harry listed in his mind the excellent reasons for buying a car . |
| 11 | The other ships of the Royal Navy which Mitchell listed in his record of service were the Hector ( 74 guns ) , which he joined , again as an able seaman , on 31 July 1777 . |
| 12 | The gun bounced in his grasp as incandescent energy leapt to evaporate a stretch of that many-times-severed , yet still tenacious limb . |
| 13 | Inside the confines of the car the atmosphere pulsed to the same demented rhythm that thrummed in her veins . |
| 14 | The roar of the patrol boat 's huge petrol engines thrummed in his ears and he glanced back over his shoulder . |
| 15 | All pupils had seen Prestel demonstrated in their information skills course . |
| 16 | Edward Jenner was himself a keen inoculator , but he was impressed by the apparently safer prophylactic effects of the mild natural disease of cowpox ; a zoonosis often caught by milkmaids which apparently protected them from smallpox , as he demonstrated in his paper of 1798 . |
| 17 | While the Jews of Israel exulted in their renaissance , the Arabs of Palestine left in despair . |
| 18 | He would return to her , to beg her pardon for so basely misjudging her , and they would find again the former ease of friendship , the lack of which now gaped in her life like an open wound . |
| 19 | Anthony Pedley as the dream-blowing BFG ( Big Friendly Giant ) , excelled in his whizzpopping jumps : they were so funny . |
| 20 | She now pushed out her chest , drew in her chin , looked at Mick while thumbing towards Joe and said , ‘ He expects his dinner ! |
| 21 | She drew in her head , shut the windows , pulled the heavy cream linen curtains , and switched on the lamps ; they glowed cheerfully over the primrose chair covers and the yellow silk bed quilt , upon which Adam lay naked . |
| 22 | Leila drew in her breath . |
| 23 | Sarah hesitated , then drew in her breath and followed . |
| 24 | She drew in her breath at the simplicity of it , wondering why she had n't thought of it before , and it excited her so much she put forward the suggestion without stopping to think if it was wise . |
| 25 | The profit margin on one sheet was much lower than the other and Emily drew in her breath sharply . |
| 26 | Gran drew in her breath . |
| 27 | She drew in her breath sharply and bit down hard on her bottom lip in an effort not to cry out . |
| 28 | And it did hit , so that I did suitable amount of gasping and goggling and even Mala drew in her breath with a hiss . |
| 29 | Abruptly , she drew in her breath . |
| 30 | She advanced on her daughter , caught sight of the red and ruined hands holding the shabby bag , drew in her breath , and said , ‘ What on earth , Sally-Anne , have you been doing to , or with , your hands ? ’ |