Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and they 're gon na be , they 'll be sort of down in this area you know |
| 2 | Now , locations can be specified relative to other objects or fixed reference points , as in : ( 66 ) The station is two hundred yards from the cathedral ( 67 ) Kabul lies at latitude 34 degrees , longitude 7° degrees Alternatively , they can be deictically specified relative to the location of participants at the time of speaking ( CT ) , as in ( 68 ) It 's two hundred yards away ( 69 ) Kabul is four hundred miles West of here In either case it is likely that units of measurement , or descriptions of direction and location , will have to be used , and in that case place deixis comes to interact in complex ways with the non-deictic organization of space ( see Leech , 1969 ; Fillmore , 1975 : 16-28 ; Lyons , 1977a : 69Off ; and references therein ) . |
| 3 | We then all sit down together and discuss these various options over and over again until the board has reached a position of understanding of where in broad terms we think the strategy of the individual business should fit . |
| 4 | Tonight we 'll devote all our time to the National as here in Central South we have eleven horses running at Aintree , in what 's regarded as one of the greatest horse races in the world . |
| 5 | How have I seen the casual passer through the Cloisters stand still , intranced with admiration ( while he weighed the disproportion between the speech and the garb of the young Mirandula ) , to hear thee unfold , in thy deep and sweet intonations , the mysteries of Jamblichus , or Plotinus ( for even in those years thou waxedst not pale at such philosophic draughts ) , or reciting Homer in his Greek , or Pindar — while the walls of the old Grey Friars re-echoed to the accents of the inspired charity-boy ! |
| 6 | At least in one case he almost says so in the history of Lovernius , to which I shall return . |
| 7 | He said , ‘ At least in that respect you 're not like your brother . |
| 8 | At least in this case I am quite sure it would apply . |