Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Storm Jameson , a woman novelist active in the peace movement , later recalled : ‘ For some years after 1933 I lived in equivocal amity with pacifists and combative supporters of the League of Nations , adjusting my feelings , in good and bad faith , to the person I happened to be with . |
| 2 | This applies not only to the small number of the very old who live in three-generational households , although that throws up some particular issues and problems , it is equally relevant when there are triangular interactions , such as husband , wife and old person , or to situations when the old person lives alone but is closely supported by kin . |
| 3 | She 'd come in , pick up a rubber skirt and say , half you ziss in one leetle size bigger ? |
| 4 | To achieve this he takes in atmospheric air at the water surface and blows out mucus coated bubbles which adhere to each other and also to plant matter . |
| 5 | I had no idea that Dad could drive a horse , but this he did in great style for of course he had spent his boyhood on various farms . |
| 6 | For this he performs in ten degrees . |
| 7 | With the campaign against the Japanese army still raging he observed , ‘ We have in Burma a potentially dangerous situation … not dissimilar to that which developed in Southern Ireland after the [ last ] war . ’ |
| 8 | Now we can begin to see that an externalization of the superego like that which occurs in total welfare states is closely allied to the projection of the superego met with in paranoia . |
| 9 | His book is about ancestral worship in West Town which is presented as prototypical of that which prevails in Chinese culture as a whole . |
| 10 | Pearl was founded in 1864 and is the UK 's second largest life office after the Prudential which specialises in door-to-door collection of insurance premiums from customers . |
| 11 | The results of the survey are broadly consistent we found in similar sides , specific problems of traffic congestion in the town centre but elsewhere a few traffic problems . |
| 12 | To achieve newspaper quality reproduction , the lowest we tolerate in daily life , would require a 700dpi scanner and a 700dpi page printer . |
| 13 | ‘ So many terraces , ’ she mooned , refusing to acknowledge how amazing he looked in black trousers and a white evening jacket ; even the tea-towel over his shoulder did nothing to disarm his incredible elegance . |
| 14 | In 1888 he played in three tests for the Australians touring in England and he was capped three times for England , playing in South Africa in 1895–6 and in the West Indies in 1896–7 . |
| 15 | And the the women and that who live in that area , tend I 've noticed to walk on the other side of the road anyway . |
| 16 | Lord David Stuart , breeder of Belted Galloway cattle at Mochrum in Wigtownshire , Scotland , wrote an invaluable book in 1969 which investigated in great detail the possible origins of the Lakenvelder and the genetics of breeding for belted and white-faced patterns from pied cattle . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm glad you called in this evening , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ ’ Vitally urgent you remain in closest contact with downed plane Stop will join you earliest in the morning Stop Hawkins ’ . |
| 19 | These radios and other stores were brought in by the small steamer Kuru , which was fitted with a device in her stack to prevent the tell-tale streamer of fumes ; these she released in occasional puffs . |
| 20 | He said : " Glad we put in some toilet paper . |
| 21 | When we were taking away three we went in this direction , for three . |
| 22 | If the winter is warm in Mexico they live as free individuals as in the summer , but when it turns cold they aggregate in dense groups , and remain still , in order to conserve energy . |
| 23 | As a complement to these he published in 1691 A Compleat Course of Chymistry , rather similar to N. Lémery 's Cours de Chymie ( 1675 ) . |
| 24 | Benny 's mother had bought cones of sweets in Birdie Mac 's shop , each one wrapped in different-coloured paper . |
| 25 | When I was heavily pregnant we lived in one room that was infested with red ants . |
| 26 | ‘ You are all I have in this world , ’ it said . |
| 27 | Although Catriona Lambert , the first round leader , managed an opening 76 which took in two eagles where her ball chased downwind at two of the par-5s , there was many a disaster story . |
| 28 | Among the most interesting episodes in his career was his employment as official artist to the Citroen Motor Company 's expeditions across Africa and Asia in 1924–25 and 1931–32 which resulted in elaborate pastels of subjects such as Ondorodiau , Chief Mombuti , a Congo Pygmy chief . |
| 29 | Mrs Yaxlee , by no means the eldest of the clan ( there was a great aunt of eighty-seven who lived in independent squalor at Nether Oldfield ) but still a senior member , sat in her parlour surrounded by the trappings of her state . |
| 30 | The Society would like to thank all who helped in any way with the Stand and in particular Mr and Mrs J. Lawley for being custodians of Material on site . |