Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The soft , shy fingers quivered in her palms , the half-formed flower of a mouth tasted of the spring and the sun . |
| 2 | The small dark eyes crinkled in their walnut bags ; the magnificent profusion of handlebar moustache , grown long ago to compensate for a balding pate , bristled with the start of a smile . |
| 3 | Only the eyes lived in her face . |
| 4 | Awful , racist thoughts and words rose in his throat like nausea , and then , moments later , a strange image of Mr Malik embracing him . |
| 5 | No matter what she did to distract herself , his dark penetrating eyes lingered in her memory as though they 'd been branded there . |
| 6 | Mildred felt very shy as the vast crowd fell silent and every pair of eyes swivelled in her direction . |
| 7 | She was holding a candle and her eyes shone in its light and her gleaming hair fell like silk on her shoulders . |
| 8 | The proposition is that , some billions of years ago , visiting extraterrestrials arrived in their spaceship to view the Earth . |
| 9 | Several heads nodded in her direction , then returned to the matter in hand . |
| 10 | " To be fair , however , it must be said that the natives on the hill also applauded the firmness and resolve which the gentlemen displayed in our defence . |
| 11 | Her mother 's words rang in her ears . |
| 12 | The words rang in her ears like bells heralding joy , and as the kiss ended she asked , ‘ So what happened to your previous determination to live without women ? ’ |
| 13 | Now , this morning , Edward Crumwallis had finally spoken to Hilary 's father , and the doctor 's words rang in his ears : |
| 14 | As Rabbi Glikstein read out the last rites at his levoyah , those words rang in my ears . |
| 15 | She could hardly hear the woman 's queries ; her stomach twisted ; his bland little words ticked in her head — soon , very soon . |
| 16 | Violent fractal pictures broke in her mind — what would have happened if Madreidetic had n't given in : the bomb exploding , the light-starred gem of Steel City bursting charred with the flames of burning bodies . |
| 17 | there was Chris , Chris trying to take the piss in the there was Chris , Chris gon na take the piss in the , my eyes looked in my can of , I have no with my , I have no not a , trying to make ya |
| 18 | Images appeared in his brain , one overlaying another , confusing him . |
| 19 | A thousand words burst in my brain , but I ca n't say anything . |
| 20 | It was the latter that was to provide a respite as the Prussians paused in their advance to loot . |
| 21 | Stiff with disbelief , the boy 's dark eyes stood in their hollows . |
| 22 | With a sickening reverberation the words stayed in her mind all the way back to her room . |
| 23 | Miss Bruce 's distaste for innovation made itself manifest in the dreary proposals served up to the Conservative and Labour governments in the seventies — whenever a request for names for public duties arrived in her in-tray , the same roll-call of has-beens fell out of her out-tray . |
| 24 | The Conservatives vowed in their election manifesto last April to legislate to bring Scots law on carrying knives into line with that in England and Wales . |
| 25 | Sparks danced in her eyes as she squared up to him . |
| 26 | The defendants replied in their reports that E was ‘ trustworthy … to the extent of a £100 000 per annum advertising contract ’ . |
| 27 | But she held fast under her grandfather 's look , which lifted past her , reflectively , intent on the pigeonholes where the room keys lay in their niches . |
| 28 | Harper rode up to the man and saw the broken wheel spokes impaled in his belly and groin . |
| 29 | Some phrases lay in his mind for years . |
| 30 | A big sturdy pair of navy shoes lay in their box and chunky white socks folded nice and neatly beside them . |