Example sentences of "[pron] in a [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Devil 's Advocate role is traditionally associated with high status roles , you should remember that someone in a low status position can still have opinions , can still provoke . |
| 2 | Even fashion — everyone 's idea of a disabled person is someone in a grey NHS wheelchair , with a pink frock and big cumbersome boots . |
| 3 | We found ourselves in a wide desert street , lined unevenly with flat adobe buildings , the same dun colour as the street and the surrounding desert . |
| 4 | A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage . |
| 5 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 6 | His father , Philip Henry Thomas , had distinguished himself in a Civil Service Examination ( Executive Branch ) and had been posted to a staff clerkship for light railways and tramways at the Board of Trade . |
| 7 | He was just wrapping himself in a garish Hong Kong dressing-gown when the door burst open and a hulking first lieutenant in combat dress , his helmet stuffed with leaves and his face already smeared with camouflage cream , stood staring at him . |
| 8 | A friend of mine , should he find himself in a gay sex shop . |
| 9 | Carole , who had fallen to the floor and was attempting to massage her husband 's knee , looked up to see Kenneth Baker himself in a camel-hair dressing gown , flanked by two men with guns . |
| 10 | These losers make up the core of the 74% of Hungarians who in a recent opinion poll said they thought the economic situation had worsened . |
| 11 | Evaluating the options will involve you in doing some of the calculations that you would normally expect to find done for you in a respectable feasibility study . |
| 12 | Coleridge , his thoughts still at Racedown , immediately saw the opportunity for bringing all his friends together at Stowey , and on 29 June wrote to Joseph Cottle to suggest — unsuccessfully — that he should take the next coach to Bridgwater : ‘ T. Poole would fetch you in a one horse Chair . ’ |
| 13 | They can arrange to mary you in a hot air balloon or on the beach , they can even invite along some monks to attend the proceedings . |
| 14 | If you book ‘ willing to share ’ we 'll put you in a two bedroom apartment occupied by four . |
| 15 | Are you in a different job sir ? |
| 16 | See you in a few years time with fucking . |
| 17 | The pollution did n't kill the ripple , and could n't get through to you in a skin-tight SCE unit . |
| 18 | However , despite its diminutive size , it is well able to fend for itself in a mixed community tank , protecting its territory against all comers , even if they happen to be twice its size . |
| 19 | The number of tau neutrinos created in the big bang can be worked out ; if they did not decay into other particles , and weighed 17 keV , then the universe would be more than 200 times heavier than it appears — so heavy that it would have collapsed in on itself in a big crunch eons ago . |
| 20 | The other concealed itself in a discarded leather shoe . |
| 21 | They won all stages but one in a seven month tournament making them overall leaders by 135 points . |
| 22 | Devised by the University of Minnesota , it is a way of short cutting the routes through Internet which can also take advantage of using other host computers which are less busy ( e.g. one in a different time zone ) . |
| 23 | Of our present flock , the high-layers favour various niches , among them one in an old pheasant crate resting on rafters in the old cow-shed . |
| 24 | Guide one In an old Ford car |
| 25 | I am sitting now in an arbour of rust-coloured bougainvillaea drinking lukewarm , weak coffee , brought to me in a stainless steel pot by a waiter in a starched white uniform , thinking in an aimless way about this puzzle , when I see the waiter returning . |
| 26 | He 's sitting next to me in a late night eaterie in Manchester talking into a tape recorder because he and his band have just released a song called ‘ Creep ’ that 's threatening to be one of the highlights of the year . |
| 27 | I would like to invite members to stand and join me in a few moments silence in memory of Doctor . |
| 28 | Some time later I was informed that I had been awarded the Verdienstkreuz or West German Order of Merit , First Class , which their ambassador pinned on me in a charming family ceremony at the Embassy in Grosvenor Square . |
| 29 | She used to have me in a big feather bed with her … |
| 30 | AN INJURED man had repeatedly told police that there was no-one in a derelict boarding house which had been destroyed in an explosion , a jury heard yesterday . |