Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [pers pn] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was just so bubbly and so vivacious , and she looked so young despite being well over eighteen , that there was something almost right for her in the part . |
| 2 | Cries could be heard from the stairs as the policemen tried to make their way up to the landing , the remaining boys making it as difficult as possible for them in the hope that their brother would get away . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's just that you do get rather obsessive about them in the city . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've never had a winner in France and perhaps Lyric Fantasy can change that for me in the Abbaye . |
| 5 | They were dry for him in the morning . |
| 6 | Oliver poured orange juice , drank half of it in the kitchen while looking very thoughtful and then carried Rain 's to the bedroom . |
| 7 | Followed by one grated fresh apple topped with a quarter of a pint of vanilla-flavoured custard ( make half a pint of custard , adding a little extra sugar and a few drops of vanilla essence , and save half of it in the refrigerator for Friday ) . |
| 8 | Trent said , ‘ Wind picks up , we 'll need to tow half of it in the Zodiac . ’ |
| 9 | He insists that no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 10 | He insists no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 11 | A gelding that is accompanied by a more may be extremely possessive of her in the company of other horses , and may be tempted to attack all and sundry — including other mares ! |
| 12 | As we set off we catch some of them in the beams of our head torches , along with the bats which are madly pursuing them . |
| 13 | came unto the workmen and beat and terrified them , threatening to kill them , if they would not leave their work , threw some of them in the river and kept them under water with long poles , and at several other times , upon the Knelling of a Bell , came to the said works in riotous and warlike manner , divided themselves into companies , to take the workmen and filled up the ditches and drains , made to carry away the water , burned up the working tools and other materials of the Relator and his workmen , and set up poles in the form of gallows , to terrifie the workmen and threatened to break their arms and legs , and beat and hurt many of them and made others flee away , whom they pursued to a town with such terror and threats , that they were forced to guard the town . |
| 14 | Blisters rose immediately , some of them in the shape of the ring . |
| 15 | Each indicates quite specifically how a following statement will build on the preceding one , and we list some of them in the grid on the following pages . |
| 16 | Sometimes she tried to do her hair like some of them in the photographs . |
| 17 | Initially no effort was made to evict CPL officials and staff from the occupied buildings , but on April 20 a communist party printing works under military guard since March 30 was stormed by troops who evicted the staff , beating up some of them in the process . |
| 18 | Erm , and if if I can just , we will Treasurer and ourselves , be reporting to you in more detail on this , in the appropriate areas , but suffice it to say , that the government are accepting the need for further investigation on some of these issues , to look at some of them in the light of the national B U D report , on superannuation and pension arrangements generally , have nevertheless agreed that individual authorities ought to have some more discretion , and the compensation regulations that I mentioned earlier , is one example of that . |
| 19 | and I put some of it in the freezer |
| 20 | A staggering £300,000 had been raised from local people and businesses , some of it in the form of covenants . |
| 21 | Now some of you in the room , believe it or not , will be happy to hit that and sit at that . |
| 22 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 23 | Bearing in mind Britain 's good marine conservation record , will my right hon. Friend join some of us in the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society , with a view to saving thousands of whales and dolphins from drift nets , from so-called scientific whaling and from industrial pollution ? |
| 24 | Also in 1983 , SAFER sold off 5,223 hectares , 2,447 hectares of which went to enlarge existing farms , ( 69% by area in the Zone de Montagne ) and 1,276 hectares to create 77 new farm units , 49 of them in the Zone de Montagne . |
| 25 | The lighter electro-mechanical version had 60 movements , 30 of them in the head , and was also cable-controlled . |
| 26 | There 's about 300 of us in the team and the cash is very hard to come across . |
| 27 | He will do well administering the Office , but I am frankly afraid of him in the House . ’ |
| 28 | Not another like it in the world ! ’ |
| 29 | Take this with you in the car on the day and you should n't come unstuck . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know what I was doing wrong with her in the middle of the year , but she 's blossomed now . |