Example sentences of "[noun] in the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " 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 | Discussing the proposals of Holland and Benn designed to rectify the short-fall in investment in the British economy they make this point : |
| 4 | Also deduction of the Fund 's initial charge ( where applicable ) means that if an investor withdraws from his investment in the short term he may not get back the amount he originally invested . |
| 5 | I mean Ro R Roger advised the client 's agent in the normal way I mean |
| 6 | Among the confused jottings in the larger notebook he found this : |
| 7 | While small influences in the short term may add up to large influences in the longer term we must conclude that , within an election campaign , television could influence but not dictate the public agenda . |
| 8 | The solution for an elastic cylinder in place strain is need to be found from the boundary conditions , Now if is the circumferential tension in the thin band it is equal to b times the interfacial pressure . |
| 9 | Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient . |
| 10 | They all hoped Zebedee would leave his calling card in the painted square they had picked for £1 . |
| 11 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 12 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 13 | THE lovers parked the car in the darkest place they could find , on the edge of a bank . |
| 14 | We are so accustomed to focussing on language , that there is a strong tendency in teaching with video to focus on the words in the same way we do with audio . |
| 15 | As class sizes will be limited , the earlier you get your entry in the more chance you have of being included in your preferred classes . |
| 16 | I was talking with a erm a well she 's not a colleague actually she 's another piano teacher , only about two days ago while walking dogs , she 's walking hers , I 'm walking mine , and , Oh I see from your recent advert in the local paper you 're accepting piano pupils . |
| 17 | Let me tell you more , dear boy , ’ said Toby in the sonorous manner he adopts when he is either about to state an immortal truth , or browbeat you , or both . |
| 18 | Make amends in the only way we could . |
| 19 | I stride over and take her by the shoulders in the same way I held Darius . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Though he travels a good deal in his job as an engineering manager , he could now enjoy the prospect of climbing , walking and fishing in the beautiful scenery he loves . |
| 22 | Er , see when , when s , when I say worship it er , it sounds like er , er playing some rituals or something like this , but there 's no ritual in the Sikh faith it 's just remembering God . |
| 23 | To express four proteins in the quadruple vector we selected the genes that were either expressed at a high level in insect cells ( eg , VP2 , VP6 , VP7 , NS1 ) by single expression vector systems or can be assembled into a morphological structure in a native configuration ( 10 , 16 , 17 , 19 ) . |
| 24 | In the case of Primo Nebiolo , the mere fact of being in Gateshead suddenly seemed to give the president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation a fluency in the English language he had not erstwhile possessed . |
| 25 | Er , well , the extra costs was two million a year er , and at the end of the first six months in the first year we 'd , we 'd , we 'd achieved a million extra revenue , so it looks as if we 've paid for it . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As you work on the pronunciation of the vowels and consonants in the new language you will of course need to concentrate on those that are unfamiliar and difficult . |
| 28 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 29 | They barely made a dent in the vast area they were supposed to cover . |
| 30 | By the faint , clouded moonlight from the small window in the adjoining washroom he was able to orient himself ; he struggled upright , leaning awkwardly against the wall , hampered by his bound hands and lacerated feet , and began to walk . |