Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that often in a benefit year , a player 's form suffers , but for me things have been going very well . |
| 2 | There were in this dingy , badly heated studio , moments of rare artistic quality of a kind that occurs but rarely in a century ’ . |
| 3 | By getting his colleagues to admit pupils to their lectures after Vial 's death , apparently waiving the customary fee of 10 guineas , he helped the College over a difficult patch , but may unwittingly have set an unfortunate precedent which suggested that preclinical veterinary teaching could be done as well in a medical as in a veterinary context . |
| 4 | He was always in a hurry to get where he was going and always in a hurry to leave it when he got there . |
| 5 | I do n't want to complain about our marriage or suggest I 'm dissatisfied , but I just do wish that once in a while you 'd tell me , ‘ I love you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ One had a certain amount of training ; one knew it was coming and so in a way , fear did n't come into it very much . |
| 7 | However , we must not forget that even in a welfare totalitarianism like Inca Peru the individual still has some sort of rudimentary superego , albeit perhaps only the primitive one of early childhood ; and , furthermore , we must not overlook his explanation of the feeling of triumph present in mania . |
| 8 | Although we certainly do not wish to get diverted into a consideration of the nominal patterns of English , we may mention that even in a case like : ( 6 ) Claudia is a bus-driver we have no doubt that the relation is still one of equation . |
| 9 | THE publisher 's comment on this book compares it with The Organisation Man and Future Shock , claiming that once in a while a book so accurately captures ‘ … the essence of its time that it becomes the spokesman for that decade ’ . |
| 10 | She was also flushed and evidently in a state of unrest , which made him feel chivalrous and sympathetic . |
| 11 | Chapter 13 looks at the requirements of educators in using signed messages and argues that even in a teaching environment where English has to be reinforced the teacher requires access to both BSL and signed English . |
| 12 | Possibly the pendulum has swung too far in that people have gone from feeling that somewhere in a marriage there should be room to accommodate their personal feelings , to believing that their feelings are everything . ’ |