Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a misguided attempt to impress the veteran American producer , I brought up the name of Jaume Sisa : a songwriter I once met by chance in a bar in Barcelona , and a man whose work is considered obscure even in Catalonia . |
| 2 | ‘ Playing with D'Arcy has been a real education because up until she joined the band I always thought about rock in male terms . |
| 3 | He records : ‘ I quickly felt at home in England . |
| 4 | During daylight most barbel will be sheltering and so I also look for cover in the form of weed beds , deep hollows and undercut banks . |
| 5 | ‘ I really feel at home in the parish . ’ |
| 6 | I then waited until midnight in a tiny village where the local people plied me with beer and chickens until I could barely move . |
| 7 | Why could I never go about arm in arm with two or three others and stare at girls ? |
| 8 | Returning to camp in the evenings , I occasionally hunted for bushbuck in the forest . |
| 9 | The Dalai Lama has sought to secure an agreement with the Chinese Government for the future autonomy of Tibet , which effectively exists at present in name only . |
| 10 | When an influential purity deputation petitioned the Home Office , Herbert Samuel , then Under-Secretary of State , expressed himself personally committed to legislation in the interests of national honour , but he refused to pledge the government to introduce proposals in the house , or even to support them publicly . |
| 11 | It had been a gloomy day which suddenly burst into splendour in the evening , the clouds rising behind the fields in the setting sun like mountains ( if only they had been ! ) and above , a darkening amethyst sky with — the finishing touch — a rose pink filigree disc of a moon foreshadowing the peace and perfection of a moonlit night . |
| 12 | The argument that , quite apart from the question of recklessness , the Convention on Limitation of Liability for Maritime Claims 1976 ( which only came into force in the UK in December 1986 ) does as a matter of law override the limitation provisions of both the Hague-Visby Rules and the Athens Convention ( for passenger claims ) will not be easily accepted by Norton Rose . |
| 13 | In England , Wales and Scotland the new local government systems which finally came into operation in 1974 appeared to confirm a new status for local government , which was also reflected in significantly increased salaries for the chief officers of the new councils . |
| 14 | Many movements ( especially first movements ) begin with very promising melodies ( e.g. the ‘ Pastoral ’ , the ‘ Eroica ’ , etc. ) which soon disappear like smoke in the wind , to be taken up again and worked over later on but which none the less fail to become complete . |
| 15 | Research Triangle Park , North Carolina-based Alphatronix — which just opened for business in Birmingham , West Midlands , has announced what it calls the industry 's first open hierarchical storage management environment . |
| 16 | Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving . |
| 17 | In Vietnam the US-supported regime in the south was defeated in 1975 , following an agreement in Paris in 1973 which formally ended outside involvement in the longstanding conflict with the communist-ruled north . |
| 18 | BURMAH , the oil group which nearly came to grief in the 1970s stock market crash , was one of the few shares to resist Barclays de Zoete Wedd 's gloomy forecast on shares . |
| 19 | Others , especially bivalves , tend to be filter feeders with heavy appetites , which often die of starvation in the reef tank . |
| 20 | She long acted as examiner in geography for various institutions , and her influence on the training of the next generation of students of geography was substantial . |
| 21 | Less dramatic but equally puzzling would be the problem posed by the patient who deliberately went on hunger-strike in order to end his suffering . |
| 22 | Would she ever feel at home in this relentless , pitiless city ? |
| 23 | And you always worked by time in stables , you 'd get out at say , you went at six o'clock , you got out till seven and were out two hours , that 's seven , eight , nine . |
| 24 | But she still goes to school in Soweto — a journey of two-and-a-half hours each way by train and bus . |
| 25 | For some reason ( probably ignorance of the comic art ) Will Hay , the majestic Thirties comedian who also went to school in Stockton was overlooked by the Academy . |
| 26 | Recently a German feminist art historian , Angela Rosenthal , ( who also writes on portraiture in the book ) has suggested that Angelica Kaufman 's paintings have to be read as a carefully constructed game of masking she claims that she is making , through her use of certain key subjects , for women 's artistic and intellectual intelligence . |
| 27 | While a student at Edinburgh , Marion Newbigin had come under the influence of J. Arthur Thompson , whom she later succeeded as lecturer in biology and zoology at the School of Medicine for Women . |
| 28 | The really bright ones would become genuine leaders , and the drop-outs , who notoriously contributed to agitation in other tribes , would be ‘ sucked into the vortex of conservatism ’ and be indistinguishable from their uneducated fellows . |
| 29 | She also suffered from arthritis in the wrists , the fingers and the ankles and she was unable to turn her head at all ; this was due to a car accident several years before when she had suffered from whiplash . |
| 30 | In their hands love seemed a narrow-eyed , exclusive , selfish bastard , to enjoy itself at the expense of a woman who now lay in bed in Auntie Jean 's house , her life unconsidered . |