Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I admire them for being so up front about their religious activity because it puts them right in the front line against anti-Semitism . ’ |
| 2 | The French troops in Saudi Arabia moved up to Hafar al-Batin , some 100 km from the Kuwaiti border , placing them effectively in the front line . |
| 3 | He did say to me right in the very beginning basically it 's answering the telephone . |
| 4 | He had always seen them somewhere in the medical field as well as on a rugby pitch . |
| 5 | But at that moment , as Cicely and Guthrie Hepwood came back into the house from the stables , all she knew was that , while she still wanted Naylor , she could not let him make love to her — not in his aunt 's and uncle 's house with them only in the next-door room , for all she knew . |
| 6 | ‘ We bring them inside in the bad weather . |
| 7 | In his mind 's eye he saw them together in the brass-ended bed , his lovely Sweetheart with her silky hair and creamy-white skin , and beside her the grinning Tom Fish with one more cruel weapon to use against a little boy . |
| 8 | Perhaps they had even bought them together in the same store , on the same day . |
| 9 | Sarah had made a pot of tea and left them together in the overcrowded room . |
| 10 | We would search for the defined pieces and then put them together in the proper order as suggested in the drawing . |
| 11 | But when it became known that someone ostensibly in the top echelon of the regime was no longer seen at the Ceauşescus ' palace at the nightly film shows or for chess , then whatever the victim 's ostensible rank , his own hangers-on would begin to look for another patron . |
| 12 | Why not try and turn your thoughts outwards and see if there is someone else in the same position as yourself — what can you do to help that person feel more comfortable ? |
| 13 | If you can not leave your children with anyone , find someone else in the same position as yourself and take the babies with you . |
| 14 | Spoken , or rather screamed , by yours truly in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , it was dynamite . |
| 15 | The copycat kings of the world will apply the formula which has benefitted them immensely in the everyday world of trade and commerce to rugby . |
| 16 | An earlier hero , in The Black Prince ( 1973 ) , is a failed writer who creatively fulfils himself only in the enforced loneliness of a prison cell when he is convicted for a murder he has not committed . |
| 17 | He had entered parliament in 1900 , twenty-six years after Balfour , he had held no Cabinet post , he had taken no active role in party institutions , and he had not involved himself much in the social world of Westminster . |
| 18 | yeah , its just in the wet weather its a pain |
| 19 | He looked at himself critically in the small mirror on the window ledge in the lean-to . |
| 20 | The readership questionnaire recently carried out raised a lot of comments ( of which more in the next issue ) . |
| 21 | He had hidden himself then in the deepest hole he could find because the lightning and the thunder alarmed him . |
| 22 | Nobody yet in the whole history of mankind has had the strength to resist doing what lies in their power to do , just to prove that they can . |
| 23 | Except for the stateless Palestinians , nobody else in the Middle East stands to gain more from peace . |
| 24 | Mr Hayward said Roberts had tried to kill himself again in the last day or two with a drugs overdose . |
| 25 | They discovered , or contacted , me early in the same month . |
| 26 | Are you perhaps in the wrong job ? |
| 27 | Brute farce , however effective in terrorizing people , is not by itself enough in the longer run . |
| 28 | The findings vindicate the writings of a monk , Eadmer the Singer , who early in the 12th century wrote an account of the old building , as he remembered it from his childhood . |
| 29 | Thomas Martyn ( who early in the next century brought out a revised edition of Miller 's later large Dictionary ) said of the signatories ‘ I have reason to suppose that the above were united in a society for the improvement of gardening , that Mr. Miller acted as their secretary and that the work was in some degree the produce of their joint efforts ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Colonel Scotland , were you ever in the German army ? ’ |