Example sentences of "[noun] in the [adj] [noun] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still I suppose you could say he suffered for his religion in the same way I suffer for my art . |
| 2 | On our way to the oasis of Bahriyah in the western desert I had a misadventure with my hat . |
| 3 | I mean Ro R Roger advised the client 's agent in the normal way I mean |
| 4 | But that was the first case of that absolute determination which he was to use to great effect in the later films I did with him . ’ |
| 5 | I stride over and take her by the shoulders in the same way I held Darius . |
| 6 | We arranged ourselves in the seats and as we headed for Shellerton in the early dark I told her calmly , incompletely and without terrors , the gist of what had befallen us in Sam 's boatyard . |
| 7 | I had to go about north-north-east , and if I hit the coast in the wrong place I could go first one way , then the other , until I came to the shingle where I had left the dinghy . |
| 8 | From my experiences in the Occupied Countries I could tell she was starved . |
| 9 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 10 | After three days in the Grand Canyon I was only just starting to appreciate the size and scale of the place . |
| 11 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 12 | And of course if you 've got any questions in the two days I 'm not just going to er at you all the time you know it 's participation is this so any questions that you have any comments you want to make please feel free to make them at any time it 's not going to throw me . |
| 13 | As she covered me from toe to head in the brown muck I thought of Julien Sorel in The Red and the Black , dissimulating and silent for the sake of ambition , his pride often shattered , but beneath it all solid in his superiority . |
| 14 | This is very much my experience of this organisation in the eight months I 've worked here . |
| 15 | But first , in looking at the history of classical principles in the previous chapters I have left loose ends untied and contradictions unresolved . |
| 16 | Changes in conditions , changes in the inanimate forces I have lumped under the general heading of ‘ the weather ’ , are likely to swamp the slow and erratic trends of the arms race , as far as any observer on the ground could be aware . |
| 17 | It looks as if sex evolved because it 's in the interest of genes to constantly be re-combined self interest not always in company with the same others may want to be er mixing themselves up , so they launch themselves in continually different combinations , and this presumably each gene what , what , what is happening is a constant filtering process all the time , by means of which natural selection is working on basically random changes in the final point I want to make and that 's |
| 18 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |
| 19 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 20 | What matters is that , regardless of their manufacturers , the devices themselves are enemies of each other in the special sense I have defined in this chapter . |
| 21 | I shall then describe conditions in the central gaol I visited , ending with some comments about the possibilities and prospects for change . |
| 22 | On the evidence in the present case I am satisfied that one reason why the plaintiff did so much for the deceased was her belief that , although she was not a blood relative of his , he would leave his estate to her on his death ; but , on the authority of Greasley v Cooke [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 1306 , if the evidence was not sufficient to establish this positively , the plaintiff would still succeed on the fourth element in the absence of proof that she did not rely on the deceased 's statements . |
| 23 | Jimmy Connors after being knocked out of Wimbledon in the first round I 'VE spent time with her and she is everything that a man could want . |
| 24 | If that is not in practice a policy which is presuming against development in the open countryside I do n't know what is . |
| 25 | Supper was excellent , and I spent the night in the smallest bedroom I had ever seen . |
| 26 | ‘ If you must know , ’ Leith exploded , her anger turning to fury at the way he , with his ‘ two men at least ’ comment , had made it sound as though she were some tart , ‘ I had a bad experience in the last place I worked . ’ |
| 27 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 28 | ‘ When I lost that opening game in the fourth set I said to myself ‘ this is your match ’ . |
| 29 | After all as I tramped around the hillside barns in the frosty air I was working up a better appetite for my turkey than all the millions lying in bed or slumped by the fire ; and this was aided by the innumerable aperitifs I received from the hospitable farmers . |
| 30 | STAIRS In the previous chapter I urged you to pick a property where the stairs were of adequate width ( this means wide enough for your body but preferably wide enough for two people to pass ) , well-lit , no awkward corners , no sudden changes in stair depth , with good handrails or bannisters . |