Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean in the past in has always turned out that what people have thought to be elementary turns out never to be elementary . |
| 2 | ‘ Orficer , ’ she said , ‘ I sit on the bench in Cisister . |
| 3 | I apologise for the delay in response — we had to track down which university you were at ! |
| 4 | I apologise for the delay in replying , but I have only just got to the bottom of my ‘ in tray ’ after months of chasing deadlines ! |
| 5 | I apologise for the delay in replying to you . |
| 6 | I apologise for the delay in replying . |
| 7 | I apologise for the delay in replying to you . |
| 8 | I apologise for the delay in arriving . |
| 9 | I pitch through the hedge in tow . |
| 10 | ‘ What am I ? ’ she asked looking at Tumbleweed , and then began to recite in a sing-song voice , ‘ with a stick in me hand and a stone in me throat , I walk through the land in me shiny , red coat . ’ |
| 11 | No , it was n't until I read about the murder in the paper that I thought any more about it . |
| 12 | I stand with the phone in my hand , remembering that I have still had no lunch . |
| 13 | I refer to the decision in respect of roads and the environment and to the prospective legislation that will put railways into the same category , especially in relation to the channel link . |
| 14 | I refer to the way in which higher education , as an institution within society , acts not just as a vehicle for economic reproduction within the social classes , but also as a means of ‘ cultural reproduction ’ . |
| 15 | I refer to the article in your August edition , page 49 , regarding Kittyhawk IV with markings GA- ? |
| 16 | I remember after the war in Bayreuth spending many hours with an old bass player who had worked under him . |
| 17 | I drive to the Hope in my ugly , crusty car which makes horrible squeaking sounds in the rain . |
| 18 | Well , I suppose in the case in point … |
| 19 | I go to the gym in spite of myself , puffing and plodding along . |
| 20 | Before I comment on the Bill in any detail , I must declare a possible future interest with British Rail in activities that are unrelated to my parliamentary duties . |
| 21 | I concede that it will do for judging in retrospect the spontaneity beyond the margins of my rationality , as when jumping like an instinctive animal for the side of the road , and for such primitive choices as the child 's refusal of another helping ; but I continue to insist that at the centre of me I differ from the child in having escaped being restricted to choice between spontaneous goals . |
| 22 | I also know how to get the red-tailed buzzard out of a tree at night , so if it flies off I stay by the tree in which it settles until dark , then I go and fetch sticks and a torch so that I can see what I 'm doing . |
| 23 | I agree with the judge in his saying : " … |
| 24 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 25 | ‘ It is very nearly all I think of the hope in it , the glory to come … if I live to see it . ’ |
| 26 | The WEA takes its pattern partly from the history of the movement but quite largely I think from the county in which it is implanted . |
| 27 | " The mother whose man I live of the house in suggested it , " said Edward . |
| 28 | ‘ I adore you , your body drives me wild with desire , I live for the light in your eyes , my whole being lights up at the thought of you . |
| 29 | ‘ I live opposite the gap in the reef . |
| 30 | ‘ I live in the convent in Knockglen . |