Example sentences of "in [indef pn] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a point in everyone 's life , he wrote , when all caution must , as they say , be thrown to the winds , all doubts stilled , when the most extreme risks have to be taken . |
| 2 | Seymour Siegal wrote ‘ In everyone 's heart stirs a great homesickness , ’ Leonard Cohen 's home is itself a symbol of such homesickness ; not a gesture , but an emblem of man 's existential isolation and alienation , which he represents discreetly , without ever advertising it . |
| 3 | It is in everyone 's interest , North , South , East and West , that London is not throttled and that those who live in the South-east — on modest means — can have a decent life . |
| 4 | The bishops expected the hallowed Authorized Version to maintain its mastery because it was sanctified in everyone 's affections and moral sentiments . |
| 5 | They said that it was in everyone 's interest that he got caught . |
| 6 | I have been speaking to him on the phone and we have decided that it would be in everyone 's interest to postpone First Holy Communion until the last Sunday of term , July 15th . |
| 7 | Accuracy of recorded facts is in everyone 's interests . |
| 8 | As noted , this intuitive idea relies on a plausible-looking but unfounded belief in the acceptance of a need for unanimously approved principles of justice as in everyone 's highest interest . |
| 9 | Australia 's Great Barrier Reef is a diver 's Mecca , in everyone 's dreams — and if not , then it should be . |
| 10 | What has to be considered is whether this is really in everyone 's interest . |
| 11 | Peace would reign in everyone 's mind . |
| 12 | It would be in everyone 's interests if the plans were quietly dropped . |
| 13 | ( Brixton and the riots there were still fresh in everyone 's mind . ) |
| 14 | If you believe the Thames Valley CID — not the account they gave at the inquest , when the events were still fresh in everyone 's minds , but the one they came up with in the months following my return to this country — then having lured Dennis on to the river and dosed him with draughts of spiked bubbly , Karen and I went ‘ One , two , three ’ and heaved him overboard . |
| 15 | Inevitably there is a certain amount of routine in everyone 's life and the person who lives alone also needs to establish some routine , no matter how tempting it may be to lead an unfettered existence , particularly if it is the first time you have lived on your own . |
| 16 | It was , they contended , in everyone 's interest to recognize ‘ the legitimate industry ’ . |
| 17 | That 's in everyone 's direct line ; we all have to look at that . ’ |
| 18 | Taylor himself argued that his methods operated in everyone 's best interests . |
| 19 | It is highly evocative of that time in everyone 's life when a mortgage meant nothing , music was all and your friends could be as mental as barking hens . |
| 20 | I am in everyone 's bad books because I said that it was only a shop . |
| 21 | The collector must obviously have the Revised Version of 1881–95 , and some other notable attempts ( not , in everyone 's view , attended with much success ) to improve on the Authorised Version . |
| 22 | My oldest brothers Jack and Charlie had turned up and were shuffling about , getting in everyone 's way , and Dad lit the candles so that the flickering glow shed an eerie light . |
| 23 | Whereas before I had more or less ignored the game and engaged myself in gossipy conversation with whoever was E ) laying opposite me , I now began to act out a parody of the ludicrous pastime in which I found myself , tackling everyone in sight , yelling for the ball to be passed to me , jumping up and down , and generally getting in everyone 's way . |
| 24 | One thought which throws a much-welcomed spanner in everyone 's works is this : the parents of Einstein and Shakespeare were not noted for either their intelligence or their prosperity , yet their children seem to have done all right . |
| 25 | After much thought , I have decided that it would be in everyone 's interests to terminate the lessons . |
| 26 | ‘ There was a tear in everyone 's eye . |
| 27 | Not that we 've got anything against the group , you understand , but certain other guests would have ruffled our feathers , so it was in everyone 's best interests that we stayed away . |
| 28 | WITH thoughts of the summer and holidays in everyone 's mind it is perhaps appropriate to dwell a little longer on the steam opportunities in that popular holiday area , Norfolk . |
| 29 | What is increasingly important to McEnroe , now that he is probably in his final year , in the picture he will leave in everyone 's mind . |
| 30 | The exposure and remedy of facets of systems performance which are not entirely as predicted is in everyone 's interest . |