Example sentences of "[noun] in [det] [adj] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | After several weeks in this empty terrain I began to reassess , or at least seriously question , the very nature of landscape painting of the usual sort where every prospect pleases . |
| 2 | Next year I am going to be very active in the theatre and I 've already this morning , sown the seed er for possibly er giving a particular performance er of one of the plays in this particular season I 'm going to do er for Save The Children Fund and I 've said |
| 3 | As the delegated head of this wonderful club , I see my duties as follows : firstly to my wife and children ; secondly to other members of my family ; then to consolidate my assets in any profitable manner I choose ; and then to devote the rest of my time to the welfare of this club . |
| 4 | Without attempting here to formulate such a scheme in any comprehensive way I propose to consider some of the important elements which would enter into it . |
| 5 | Looking into those calm , assured faces in this odd setting I felt a stab of the futile longing to communicate that Alan Moorehead described on meeting a family of gorillas . |
| 6 | The shower is the only time in any twenty-four-hour period I take my underpants right off . |
| 7 | To what I suppose would happen possibly about eighty percent of the time , where you 're working , you 've worked yourself off to do a superb drawing of a house all day , and er , the branch manager or whoever it may be , is walking round passing quotes , and walks off not really showing any general interest in this superb picture I 've just spent all my time doing . |