Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Siddy 's ’ fiancée , Beth , would cut and set her hair for her in the late ‘ twenties , but by the time the couple married in June , 1930 , Granny was very near the end . |
| 2 | More did not — but included provision for it in the other types of school . |
| 3 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 4 | To a king about to embark on war , the support of wise counsels and mighty powers was indeed essential , and the men honoured in 1337 repaid the king 's generosity by loyal support for him in the forthcoming campaigns . |
| 5 | The idea of a National Government was primarily an idea of the political centre and right : there was hardly any support for it in the Labour party — except from Mosley , and he was moving rapidly to the right . |
| 6 | Word processors are more like DTP packages , and spreadsheets do just about everything bar make the money for you in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It should not be so difficult a decision for him in the best interests of an organisation in which he believes and for which I know he has worked so hard . ’ |
| 9 | It was published in March 1986 , five months after Jones ' arrival at BYU , and he decided to give a talk about it in the departmental weekly colloquium . |
| 10 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 11 | Harry played in eight of the last nine Palace Football League matches of season 1921–22 and scored two goals for us in the last eight minutes on his debut to help Palace defeat Bury 4–1 at The Nest on 25 March , but all these appearances were in the inside or centre-forward positions . |
| 12 | A first round victory caught everyone 's attention , and Swift kept close tabs on him for the rest of the year , even fielding a car for him in the 25th anniversary race at Silverstone and again in the Irish Festival . |
| 13 | Had he changed his mind about her in the cold light of morning ? |
| 14 | He was about to step across to the darkness of the recess and Lily 's room when he heard footsteps and the sound of voices below him in the tiled entrance hall . |
| 15 | But the resurgence of nationalism in Europe and in other parts of the world , in diverse forms , has made this once again a major issue for political analysis , and I shall return to various aspects of it in the next chapter . |
| 16 | They certainly wo n't complain if Harlequins field a weakened side against them in the held-over match on Easter Monday . |
| 17 | Fairbrother 's hundred was his fifth in first-class confrontations with Yorkshire — only Chris Lloyd with six stands above him in the Red Rose list — but it was his first three-figure score since he assumed the leadership as captain-elect midway through last summer . |
| 18 | Athena appears in the first and last and in one other at each end ; Hermes with her in the first and without her in the Cerberus , where his presence is necessary as the hero 's guide to the Underworld . |
| 19 | To be imprisoned side by side with them in the male domain made them look forward beyond Karlinsky 's address to the regular Saturday-night social in the communal hall next door when they would be able to get together , relax and talk without constraint . |
| 20 | Ralph Downes , who helped with the instrument 's design , made some Pye Nixa recordings on it in the earliest days of stereo ( 1958 ) to show just how effective this spatial effect could be in the music of Bach . |
| 21 | United certainly made a fight of it in the second half but their finishing was poor . |
| 22 | ‘ No , but then Ellie Browne did n't want to be a part of it in the first place . |
| 23 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 24 | In 1980–81 , for example , there were 62,000 students in Wales following non-advanced courses , the majority of them in the 35 colleges , as compared with 14,000 on advanced courses . |
| 25 | Dickens has an horrific description of it in The Old Curiosity , Shop ( 1841 ) , when it had reached the rock bottom of filth and ugliness , and of human degradation . |
| 26 | I 've done lots of work for them in the last couple |
| 27 | There is no reliable diagnostic test for it in the living animal . |
| 28 | Perhaps she started from the feeling and then found a correspondence for it in the outside world . |
| 29 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 30 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |