Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them appear in the above list , for a hard line can not be drawn . |
| 2 | But I mean in the actual downstairs , in the living room |
| 3 | er present work , and so I mean , you , you , could say we 'll take it , er two or three hundred complaints from London , and buy time I suppose , erm to see if if if er work up here had picked up or natural wastage went or what ever , erm , if it did n't go up then , I mean in the long term , erm one could n't envisage keeping on with more staff than what 's thought to be a fairly generously assessed formula anyway , says we need . |
| 4 | I mean in the neural network terms we just use a summation function . |
| 5 | Meanwhile I sit in the spacious bar-restaurant , in this drool parlour , in this fancy vomitorium . |
| 6 | After breakfast , I sit in the outgoing waiting-room , facing the door , with Jackie and the women of yesterday morning clutching their knees and their overnight bags , looking pale . |
| 7 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 8 | I plug in the short-wave radio and tune it to the radio-microphone , then I leave the receiver on the table and walk out to stick the bug on the inside of the front door . |
| 9 | As I linger in the grassy cart tracks joining two fields that sleep in afternoon idleness , the smell of Rayless Mayweed crushed underfoot overcomes the other pleasant hay and pasture odours . |
| 10 | I put in the usual request for official clearance through the valve and was pleased to find that we had got lucky . |
| 11 | My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place . |
| 12 | That meant in practise , I speak in the primary sector I think there 's five hundred and forty six thousand of the delegated budget taken out , and I will have to — if you will allow me a minute |
| 13 | So I hope , in my remarks , and I hope in the general tone of the debate , there 's enough to reassure London Region that we need to move forward at a careful pace . |
| 14 | Now correct me if I 'm wrong , I 'll look in the other r Excuse me while I look in the other room . |
| 15 | Again I do n't want to be uncharitable but Cecil Parkinson I suspect in the public view is a man somewhat but not entirely without trace . |
| 16 | I was a bit bored this lunchtime , so I though I 'd type in a bit of a report that I read in the Daily Mail about the Hibs game . |
| 17 | Reports I read in the national press suggest that retail sales are not improving , and that has certainly been borne out by our experience in Scotland over the last few weeks . |
| 18 | I glance in the rear-view mirror to see other cars close behind ; slowing down but then speeding up again . |
| 19 | I stand in the early darkness and watch as Crilly is bundled into the back of the red and white van and taken away , siren silent but the bright lights flashing . |
| 20 | When I stand in the direct path , say three yards away , I prevent projections of the sound from going any further , though this is a good position for myself to hear ‘ my sound ’ . |
| 21 | Now I know in the original draft nature conservation interest was mentioned and er I 'd like to hear from North Yorkshire why that factor is taken out of the policy . |
| 22 | I know in the free market , resources will be allocated , erm , in an optimal way , in that those , er , those sectors that , that are the most productive , in economic terms , you know , they can produce more output per unit input , alright , those sectors that can do that will get the resources . |
| 23 | I remember in the terrible winter of 1962 – 63 we sat out eating a picnic lunch when everybody across the harbour was frozen to death . |
| 24 | I believe in the tall poppy syndrome that if you grow up too tall there will always be people ready to cut you down to size . |
| 25 | The basic presupposition here is the indivisibility of Truth and the essential unity of life , a presupposition Gandhi maintains when he says : ‘ I believe in Advaita , I believe in the essential unity of man and , for that matter , of all that lives . ’ |
| 26 | " I believe in the instinctive wisdom of our well-tried democracy , " declared Churchill in 1945 — shortly before going down to election defeat . |
| 27 | I believe in the true God . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I believe in the American motto : do n't get mad , get even . ’ |
| 29 | Zero Mostel told the chairman , ‘ My dear friend , I believe in the antiquated idea that a man works in his profession according to his ability rather than his political beliefs . ’ |
| 30 | This gives the authors opportunity to make alterations and additions to the text , and I am particularly grateful to have this opportunity to revise I Believe in the Holy Spirit . |