Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] in [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's bad luck for all them blokes in the other counties what never ‘ ad Sandham and the rest to ‘ elp ‘ em , ’ commented the Van Boy . |
| 2 | ‘ My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures . |
| 3 | Neither my wins in the European Championships and European Cup nor my two British records had ever made the front page — but the fact that I would n't run in a relay team had . |
| 4 | In defence of some of my clients in the national museums and galleries , I should point out that , for example , the Victoria and Albert museum has been able to extend its opening hours . |
| 5 | From my experiences in the Occupied Countries I could tell she was starved . |
| 6 | Let us consider what he has achieved , for example , for my farmers in the less-favoured areas . |
| 7 | It is for these reasons that I felt then , as I do now , that in pursuing an industrial career I was performing a social service , of no less significance than my service in the armed forces . |
| 8 | That was how she met my father in the early years of the war . |
| 9 | For that reason I have related some of the more interesting highlights of my life in the Western Isles in the following chapters which can be regarded as an intermission to my Cutter Service . |
| 10 | ‘ My ancestors in the Scottish islands used to farm seaweed and if they 'd had our technology they could have made a dish like you 're eating now . |
| 11 | Hick , speaking as the England squad completed its pre-Indian tour preparations at Lilleshall yesterday , added : ‘ I wanted to know why my form in the one-day internationals was good , while I could n't do it in the Tests . |
| 12 | An answer to these questions , if a satisfactory answer is to be possible at all , can not be given except as part of a theory of reality , and my purpose in the following pages will be to sketch out the fundamentals of just such a theory . |
| 13 | My Lords in a few minutes the House will have to vote on this issue . |
| 14 | I do n't agree with the theory that my becoming emotionally charged up by the relay affair affected my running in the 100 metres . |
| 15 | From my earliest days , my interest in the Old Masters has frequently led me to consult Hofstede de Groot 's A Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century which includes the work of such household names as Rembrandt and Frans Hals , Johannes Vermeer and Jacob van Ruisdael among some 40 major Dutch artists . |
| 16 | In order of importance in discriminating between them and the respondents , they differed in their views in the following ways : |
| 17 | In 1937 the Congregationalist Albert Peel reflected on the late Victorian and Edwardian periods : ‘ Ministers who began their pastorates in the twenty years before the war look back in amazement at sermons they then preached , with their acceptance of the inevitability of progress . ’ |
| 18 | Senior Tories are attempting to highlight the dangers posed by a hung Parliament to boost their support in the final days of the election campaign . |
| 19 | Successful new titles , draconian cost controls , inflation-busting , cover-price rises and a £1m windfall from the sale of a stake in newspaper group TR Beckett also played their part in the sparkling results , which sent the shares 8p better at 300p . |
| 20 | It was also announced on April 18 that some 108 persons arrested or imprisoned for their part in the 1990 demonstrations would be released from custody . |
| 21 | They still see Scotland as north Britain , an appendage that can be guaranteed to play its part in the Labour unionists ' drama of periodically legitimising long periods of Tory rule by brief interregnums of Labour control . |
| 22 | Although the British needed this route to support Egypt , many of them saw Pan American as opportunistic and poised to exploit its advantage in the postwar years . |
| 23 | The Somerset commoners succeeded in fighting off most attempts at drainage where their contemporaries in the eastern counties had failed . |
| 24 | But in reporting this highly selective history of Scotland 's footballing campaigns Hampden Babylon remains loyal to the great myths of the game , and to the undoubted disgust of the Scottish Football Association , places its faith in the anti-authoritarian players who have come to Scotland 's rescue in the past and brightened our mediocrity with a touch of madness . |
| 25 | We teach beginners safely to sail their Wayfarers in the open seas around Paxos . |
| 26 | They were tipped as a recovery stock after investors had lost much of their money in a few months . |
| 27 | As the Turks moved out , their estates in the rural areas were bought by Serbs and their houses in the towns were occupied by diverse groups of immigrants , who also took over their occupations . |
| 28 | Analysts , particularly in the advertising world , ceaselessly try to unravel it , to help clients sell their products in the best markets . |
| 29 | Chrysler 's Concorde LH saloon ( below ) made its debut in the British Airways Concorde lounge at JFK airport , New York . |
| 30 | Expressed in this way , ‘ A Plan for Britain' was symptomatic of a mood of collectivist enthusiasm which seemed to find its opportunity in the shared perils and challenges of the early years of the war . |