Example sentences of "[pron] in [pron] [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Detectives hunting the murderer of an old age pensioner say they 're convinced that someone in his tiny village community is shielding whoever is responsible . |
2 | The Church of England , which in its 1908 Lambeth Conference had condemned family planning , changed its mind when it was clear that the faithful were simply ignoring its precepts . |
3 | He walked behind his own desk , settled himself in his ancient swivel chair . |
4 | It was Geordie , he was muttering out loud to himself in his strong Geordie accent . |
5 | O ‘ Connell echoes the structural engineering at the marketplace itself in her gigantic display stand on which 220 vibrant red , moulded jellies are ranked in rows ; a silent audience waiting for the performance to begin . |
6 | If the relative difference in growth rates remains steady in the 1990s , the unfolding global picture will be one in which traditional book markets are remorselessly overhauled by the value of the new electronic ones . |
7 | The typical picture in such industries was one in which international oil companies , having secured concessions under which they risked their capital , discovered and developed the resource . |
8 | The third category of incisor digestion is one in which extensive enamel digestion occurs over the whole incisor ( Fig. 3.22 J-K , and Fig. 3.23 H-I ) . |
9 | It is the one in which Assistant Professor Sewell resides . |
10 | This year alone — the sad one in which British rugby players are apparently rubbing their hands in greedy but pitful expectation — I 've relished long , doubtless tedious ( for them ) but totally gratis and generous interviews with the likes of Scudamore ( on his most precious mid-season afternoon off ) , Offiah , Gower , Gooch , Border , Simpson , Jacklin , Robson , the teenage millionaire Chang ; and even Mansell took a day off to drive me round and round Silverstone . |
11 | This year alone — the sad one in which British rugby players are apparently rubbing their hands in greedy but pitiful expectation — I 've relished long , doubtless tedious ( for them ) but totally gratis and generous interviews with the likes of Scudamore ( on his most precious mid-season afternoon off ) , Offiah , Gower , Gooch , Border , Simpson , Jacklin , Robson , the teenage millionaire Chang ; and even Mansell took a day off to drive me round and round Silverstone . |
12 | At the same time , however , central guidance made it clear that the version of care management now officially sanctioned was one in which direct service provision was not included , and that a brokerage model was therefore being endorsed . |
13 | Rae was going to break her golden rule and hang this one in her own living room . |
14 | Theologically , the basis for this understanding lay in Jesus Christ as the one in whose own person God and man are reconciled , and in the vision of the church — the whole church — as the continuation of his life through the centuries . |
15 | Use a good quality bristle brush — find one in your local health food shop . |
16 | ‘ Go home , dear girl , you will die of heat on your bicycle , ’ the women under the arcades would say to me in their strange Parmigiano dialect ( which I soon learned to understand but never to speak ) as I rode past . |
17 | ‘ I have n't since the way Lou Gent fought against me in my first title defence . ’ |
18 | ‘ No , you do n't understand , ’ she said irritably , ‘ I want you to come with me in my two seater kayak . ’ |
19 | Without blushing , he told me in my own drawing room : ‘ I am a financial adviser to both the Duke and Duchess . |
20 | McIllvanney suddenly demanded of me in his sour Belfast accent . |
21 | Bombay boys Kambli , Amre and Sachin Tendulkar totalled 359 runs between them in their first Test appearances on their home ground . |
22 | See them in their toy-filled Kensington town house and you would assume they are a family for whom everything falls effortlessly into place — until you remember John 's surprise defeat in the April election . |
23 | If young children , dependent on an adult for basic needs , learnt that the adult does not always come back , then this has far-reaching consequences for them in their own adult experience . |
24 | The hostility which farmers have recently provoked from many environmentalists also helps to confirm them in their characteristic persecution complex , associated with being a small , closely knit minority in an urban industrial society . |
25 | Up the slope , at the top of his semi-circular steps , Alexander Menzies was waiting for them in his best silk coat like a dandy at a ball , with a straightfaced young man standing by his side . |
26 | Rachel handed them to him , and he put them in his inside jacket pocket . |
27 | Outside the Roman city walls ( though in the heart of the modern city ) lay a great cemetery area ; and here , between 379 and 386 , St Ambrose built a basilica over the martyria of two Roman martyrs , St Gervasius and St Protasius ; and beside them in his own basilica Ambrose himself was laid to rest . |
28 | It took the London store magnate Gordon Selfridge , who included them in his own advertising copy in the evening papers , to show that publishing them would increase the value of the paper to its readers , rather than make them desert to a rival medium . |
29 | Get them written down whenever possible and work at them in your do-it-yourself practice time . |
30 | You 'll find them in your high street shops . |