Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Could n't you stay with me for a few days in case those men come back . ’ |
| 2 | Dare I repeat a story I 've told before about a friend , an unscrupulous bloke , canvassing with me for a local election in Wandsworth ? |
| 3 | Those responsible for initial teacher training , for example , were apparently relieved that the Polytechnic , upon its merger with the Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education in 1975 , was not intending to leave them as a monotechnic island in the interdisciplinary sea of the Polytechnic , particularly when it remained possible ( as confirmed by subsequent experience elsewhere ) that isolation would mean a low ranking in whatever prioritization exercises the Polytechnic might be forced to undertake . |
| 4 | The girls join them for a final splash in the pool . |
| 5 | To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house . |
| 6 | Yeah , but you can only buy them for a little while in the year |
| 7 | Alternatively , major capital projects would be undertaken by private sector contractors who would finance and build the assets in question , operate them for a specified period in return for an agreed fee and then transfer them to the commissioning authority . |
| 8 | It at last gives Renault a diesel flagship worthy of the name , a car that should help Phil Horton and his team , in his words , ‘ position ourselves as a major player in the U.K. diesel league with the aim of taking more fleet sales from our competitors . ’ |
| 9 | Establishing ourselves as a credible force in Germany and further east is not a simple task , but I am confident that we are gradually putting the team in place who will achieve this objective . |
| 10 | We are in danger of talking ourselves into a deeper decline in which only the bad news is given attention . |
| 11 | Someone with a vested interest in training or a personal commitment to it |
| 12 | Not surprisingly , they believed they had only made a stab at it , From the start Wave and HHCL were determined to build the campaign around an organisation with a sound commercial and practical justification for funding such advertising ; someone with a vested interest in curbing consumer greed . |
| 13 | He joined the Puffin Bookshop in the summer of 1985 and quickly established himself as someone with a deep interest in books for children , especially for the very young , and won the hearts of customers , fellow members of staff and publishers visiting the shop , not to mention the many authors and illustrators who gave their time freely for the events and signings at the bookshop . |
| 14 | However , within minutes of starting the meeting ( or so it seemed ) I had invited someone with a severe pain in the head to come forward . |
| 15 | Yeah the firework systems supposed to be the centre of the Red Vase designs , we 're putting ourselves in a considerable disadvantage in not visiting and influencing these Red Vase Designs . |
| 16 | Kenny Milne is far and away the Scots ' best hooker and his injury robbed them of a great deal in both tests . |
| 17 | Their habits have probably always been similar , and if survival is to be taken as a measure of success , their conservative way of life has ensured them of a leading place in the evolutionary marathon . |
| 18 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 19 | A former patient ( one who had never been regressed or even thought about the subject ) told me of a strange incident in her own family . |
| 20 | My heart tells me of a perfect flower in the centre of the garden and I move along the pathways , stopping to drink in some new and dazzling sight or scent that arrests me . |
| 21 | More happily , a colleague told me of a seventeen-year-old girl in his last parish who was cruelly told that she would be dead in a year . |
| 22 | One woman told me of a particular year in which seven close relatives died . |
| 23 | The horse jumped forward a few paces with his limbs bunched up and then , holding himself for a brief moment in a static rear , galloped off in sheer terror down the path . |
| 24 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 25 | As a teenager he signed for Rangers , winning a League Cup Winner 's medal at 17 , and establishing himself as a prominent newcomer in the Scotland Youth Team . |
| 26 | The 19-year-old wonderkid from Romford could save the Gunners more than £2million in the transfer market by establishing himself as a key figure in his club 's revived quest for the Premier League title . |
| 27 | Taken along with his restrained reaction to the repression of the pro-democracy movement in China itself [ see pp. 36720-22 ] , his attitude gave rise to some suggestions that he saw a role for himself as a potential mediator in the Hong Kong issue . |
| 28 | He swiftly established himself as a dominant influence in New Zealand station architecture and produced many remarkable buildings . |
| 29 | Mind you , it is rather surprising that McDonald , a top session man turned star performer , has not established himself as a big noise in Europe . |
| 30 | In many of these sonnets the poet accuses himself of a gross failure in judgement in having formed a relationship with this woman . |