Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] in the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Her body bounced between them in the light gravity . |
14 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
15 | There was always something for someone in the criminal world . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Basha looked after him in the small village . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The ambulance came , and she ended up looking after him in the intensive care unit . |
21 | A rat as big as a cat scurried down a steep slope and a small bush slid down after it in the torrential downpour . |
22 | May the Lord enrich and increase your witness to the Truth about Himself in the indifferent society around you . |
23 | 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 ? |
24 | The artifact , thus , functions merely as an external signifier … for which in the collective consciousness there is a corresponding signification |
25 | More than half the 30,000 Syrians to have entered Lebanon were now approaching the city that lay below them in the early morning heat , its dim perspective merging into the Mediterranean . |
26 | A first win at home is a must for Steve Coppell 's boys against Nottingham Forest , the only team below them in the Premier Division who have yet to win away . |
27 | Below them in the urban hierarchy came 100 or so towns with between 1,500 to 7,000 people each . |
28 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
29 | Lot number one O five Lot number one O five , the terracotta carvings there 's eight of them there we are , all eight of them in the framed case for three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds and twenty , fifty , at three hundred and fifty pounds any more at three fifty only , at three hundred and fifty , all done ? |
30 | Something she said , perhaps Matey 's name , the lack of privacy for the two of them in the small house , although they had both kept their voices low , stopped him . |