Example sentences of "[verb] in [det] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To calculate the joint probability of the coincidence occurring in any one minute we multiply the two separate probabilities . |
| 2 | This true story of a young Ayrshire doctor starts in that vast country we know as Russia , 275 years ago , during the reign of Czar Peter the Great . |
| 3 | Kenco smooth , rich-tasting coffee and superb aroma has always been a great favourite , but now Kenco Single Grind has gone one better — it can be used in any coffee-making system you choose . |
| 4 | Well why ca n't she do that two weeks marking in that first week she needs to unwind ? |
| 5 | How he disciplined himself to make ends meet in that difficult time he explained in his book What To Do When Someone Has Debt Problems , A Practical Survival Guide ( 1985 ) , in the Introduction to which he wrote : |
| 6 | Yet once they have collaborated in this verbal insincerity they reveal an extent of human viciousness no one could have expected . |
| 7 | Graveney insists that Hick should go back to basics , and remain in that classic position he is in at the start of the bowler 's run-up — to stand sideways-on , bat on the ground , knees slightly bent , feet about shoulder width apart , and head up and still with both eyes level . |
| 8 | I understood that pantun was a form of Malayan poetry , and could not grasp how this might annihilate anything ; but , as he continued , I began to see — or I thought in that dazed state I saw that he believed all human perceptions to be governed by words and , indeed , distorted and ultimately betrayed by words . |
| 9 | Imagine , if you will , one Aztec priest arguing with another in the year 1452 : ‘ I have made calculations that indicate it is nearly impossible for intelligent beings to exist in this hypothetical world you call Europe . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , now that he had come to live in this new house he was aware that he would probably be an object of interest to his neighbours . |
| 11 | I ca n't afford to stay in this awful dump I 'm in for long . ’ |
| 12 | All the grown-ups smiled in that boring way they have when little girls are being exceptionally sick-making . |
| 13 | ‘ I think in any rural town it ought to be possible to find an hour or so to stroll round , just to talk to people about this and that . |
| 14 | Sampson used to tie his gloves with straps and whilst batting in this particular game they came loose . |
| 15 | When she became engrossed in some new work he made her preoccupation an excuse for drawing away from her . |
| 16 | … You use the same phrase in a new context and embedded in that new context it acquires a completely different meaning . |
| 17 | ‘ If the race had been held in any other country I probably would not have gone , but I love racing in Japan . |