Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] in [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fight did not prevent the fundamental beliefs in the nation and ‘ the historic integrity of the island of Ireland ’ , as nationalist parties described it in their New Ireland Forum ( 1983 — 4 : i. 28 ) , from remaining basic to the perceptions of both parties . |
| 2 | Two versions of the tune appear in the collections of Captain Francis O'Neill of the Chicago Police , a contemporary of Honeyman , and Alastair Hardie includes it in his Caledonian Companion , where he acknowledges its publication in Kohler 's Violin Repository of 1885 . |
| 3 | Defoe mentions it in his Northern Tour , 1724 . |
| 4 | Kids watched it in their millions every week because it was that rarity : an adult show which listened to their viewpoint . |
| 5 | Grief hit me in its fullest force much later . |
| 6 | As the Local Government Chronicle put it in its leading article of 1 November : ’ To introduce poll tax is a mistake , to bring in council tax is a disaster . ’ |
| 7 | The time may not , therefore , be too far away when , as McKinsey put it in their 1989 report , the scenario of ‘ potential unlocked ’ becomes a reality for AEA . |
| 8 | The Israeli Cabinet approves Shamir 's " peace plan " ; three days later the plan is approved by the Knesset , but the PLO rejects it in its present form . |
| 9 | A few years later , when a Japanese professor on holiday in England visited her in our other house in Bath , Hill House in Sion Road , he said to her , in the usual Japanese joky way : ‘ I 'm sure your son will be marrying some nice Japanese lady , Mrs Kirkup . ’ |
| 10 | So instead of renting out the planes from the Blue Max museum , the team came up with a plan to use them in their own production . |
| 11 | ‘ Count on us , ’ Tina reassured him in her rough , warm way . |
| 12 | The fate awaiting someone pitched from his horse in such a place might be blood-poisoning , ‘ being dreadfully venom 'd by rolling in slake ’ , as William Hall put it in his nineteenth-century fen doggerel . |
| 13 | That night Eva put me in her clean little spare room . |
| 14 | The law had them in her cloudy embrace and was spilling out of their eyes and lips her deathly must . |
| 15 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 16 | DAVID CAMPESE , whose genius inspired Australia to the world title 12 months ago , is on course to help them in their 1995 defence . |
| 17 | [ 12 ] Most dog owners have had the misfortune to see it in their own pets in a dog fight . |
| 18 | ‘ Then let me tell you that you have no right to include me in your sordid games . |
| 19 | Even in making oneself more aware in preparation for a choice , it will be enough that one can identify which would be the relatively stronger inclination in the fullest attainable awareness ; there will be no need to experience it in its full intensity or to prolong it after the choice . |
| 20 | Brook recorded it in his usual dry fashion : |
| 21 | Lord Hunt , at the time a young official in the Dominions Office , offered a similar interpretation in his 1983 survey of what had happened to Cabinet government since Lloyd George and Hankey invented it in its modern form . |
| 22 | ‘ Not to say meet , but Matthew Choak passed me in his old van . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe there will be someone to fill Lineker 's shoes in years to come but at the moment the replacements must be given a chance to do it in their own time . ’ |
| 24 | Often he would send for Cranmer in the night to reassure him in his religious doubts and difficulties . |
| 25 | The fact that firms find it in their mutual interests to combine , or to develop lasting links , does not mean that such links are socially desirable in the wider sense ( as Williamson , for example , would agree ) . |
| 26 | When he told him he would be arrested for being drunk , Sweeney butted him in his left eye and brought his knee up to his groin . |
| 27 | And then , as Morrison Halcrow describes it in his new biography of Lord Joseph , Sir Keith ( as he then was ) made that celebrated 1974 speech which created such a storm . |
| 28 | Corbett pushed the meat through and watched the leading dog seize it in his huge jaws , throwing it up and devouring it , the blood streaming down his black , slavering mouth . |
| 29 | The rose is one of our national flowers and this month sees it in its full glory . |
| 30 | They 'ad ter move out then , ’ Billy informed her in his easy manner . |