Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been easier to discuss issues in pubs and read about them in the New Internationalist . |
| 2 | It was this talent which had landed him the job with the Oswaldston College of Further Education and he was already unearthing long — forgotten aspects of Lancashire social history , and writing about them in the local paper . |
| 3 | He may do it by actually ‘ clobbering ’ somebody , but this would imply a rather drastic escalation of the conflict situation and happens too rarely for everyone in the aggro-leader role to prove themselves . |
| 4 | He then became the resident guitarist at ECM and therefore has played guitar for everyone in the modern movement : for example , Paul Bley , Mike Gibbs , Eberhard Weber , Paul Motian and Jan Gabarek . |
| 5 | When he left his room , he knocked on the women 's door ; he would wait for them in the small restaurant at the front of the hotel . |
| 6 | Determined to shoot one with a really fine head , I decided to spend a night near the mountain-top so that I could hunt for them in the early morning before they lay up for the day . |
| 7 | It is particularly interesting , however , to discover that a small group of white collar workers at Rolls Royce did not want an intellectually taxing job and provisions were made for them in the final design . |
| 8 | Concern over the standard of living of servicemen was answered by Yeltsin , who detailed provisions for them in the Russian budget . |
| 9 | After leaving school the situation of course is different , although the position of young wage earners in the household may well have depended upon the employment opportunities available for them in the local economy . |
| 10 | It was good enough for them in the old days , and it will be good enough for them again , especially with THE woman out of the way . |
| 11 | In this House it has been easier for Conservative Members in particular to take a dispassionate view of the matter than was possible for them in the previous Parliament , working as they were under the shadow of a General Election and in the aftermath of a traumatic change in leadership . |
| 12 | It is my view , of course , that we have no such idea , and no need of it , since we do not take condition-sets for effects to be merely " enough " for them in the given sense . |
| 13 | Regular staff , sometimes nominally of the same grade , provide a sort of supervision for them in the initial period and themselves tend to find that during the peak period they are doing , or doing more consistently , more responsible jobs than during the rest of the year . |
| 14 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
| 15 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 16 | Hopefully it will do the same for me in the Welsh mountains , and enable me to walk onto specific grid bearings and find some ancient markers . |
| 17 | There was always something for someone in the criminal world . |
| 18 | For someone in the early stages of mastering Coke throat-burn like myself , this is impressive . |
| 19 | A succession of heavy trucks rumbled down Amwell Street as Graham turned onto it from Rosebery Avenue ; they were big grey lorries , stone or chippings carriers with great corrugated sides and a plume of dust trailing after them in the near-still air , Graham was heading slightly uphill now , and slowed his pace accordingly . |
| 20 | Basha looked after him in the small village . |
| 21 | Thiercelin began to nudge through the crowd of idlers around the stage door , leaving his friend gazing stoically after him in the late evening rain . |
| 22 | It was a skipper from here called Sopite ( he has his street named after him in the old town ) , who made one of the great technological advances in whaling , when he found a way to render the blubber down on board the whaler instead of having to sail all the way back home with it . |
| 23 | The ambulance came , and she ended up looking after him in the intensive care unit . |
| 24 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
| 25 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
| 26 | Could you write an article for somebody in the top year of your last school , about English A Level , and what they should be able to , what they should expect ? |
| 27 | Guy Ferris , already making a name for himself in the right circles , made a surprisingly determined play for the younger Miss Fox . |
| 28 | Finally , in February 1470 , the king regranted the offices which Warwick had taken for himself in the previous August , with Gloucester again the main beneficiary . |
| 29 | Finally , in February 1470 , the king regranted the offices which Warwick had taken for himself in the previous August , with Gloucester again the main beneficiary . |
| 30 | The artifact , thus , functions merely as an external signifier … for which in the collective consciousness there is a corresponding signification |