Example sentences of "[adv] in a [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said if you went out alone in a tight skirt you were black and blue before you 'd gone a hundred yards . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps in a few years I would n't have done . ’ |
| 3 | The war changed national life and individual ways of living , and so in a general sense it struck at the very roots of conservatism . |
| 4 | ‘ It says so in a little book I got from Our Lady 's Bookshop . |
| 5 | ( When notes are close together in a low register they sound crude and clumsy , and fail to give a good bass to the harmony . |
| 6 | While it was true that the experience of dependants ' benefits demonstrated to the Ministry of Labour that ‘ not in a few cases they enabled respectable and industrious men and women to avoid having recourse to the Poor Law ’ ( Ministry of Labour , 1924 , p. 10 ) , the restoration and continuation of dependants ' allowances and the establishment of uniform minimum scales of Poor Law outdoor relief in January 1922 owed much to the activities of the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement , which organised protests na-tionally as well as against local Boards of Guardians . |
| 7 | Tonight in a special report we look at how the Forest has been abused in the past , and how it 's still going on today . |
| 8 | But I was brought up in a Catholic Home you see . |
| 9 | Coming up in a little while we 'll be talking greyhounds , but for now we 'll go back to football and deal with the local classified results with all the local leagues . |
| 10 | Probably in a good mood you got ta carry on |
| 11 | Now in a short time he would be gone , and the era that had begun in the 1960S with the triumvirate of Harold Wilson , George Brown and myself would be at an end . |
| 12 | Even in a healthy society it is enough that the officials accept the secondary rules of recognition , adjudication and change and that the citizens acquiesce . |
| 13 | Precisely what this means is not clear because presumably even in a socialist state it would have a necessary function in maintaining law and order . |
| 14 | Nonetheless , the significance of Lukacs 's theory is that even in a post-Stalinist epoch it presents socialist realism as rich in possibilities . |
| 15 | Here in a vast amphitheatre you can dance the night away to a brilliant light and laser show , a stage show , and fountains shooting straight out of the sea , with the floodlit backdrop of Bodrum castle across the far side of the harbour . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I moved out , came to live here in a rented house I ca n't really afford , Susan sold the flat , which seemed a bit more than a symbolic act , I continued to love her and miss her , I tried to understand what she felt and hoped it was something she 'd eventually work through so that we could be together again . |
| 17 | Well in a modern world we 've lost the faith that certain people are appointed by God to do this for us , or especially naturally fitted to do it , so how are we going to accept the rule of some people rather than others ? |
| 18 | But we still need to know how , I mean maybe in a participatory democracy we can defend freedom and equality to the system not in it seems absurd to say that democracy we have now is a way of embodied freedom I mean maybe weak notion of equality , but nothing |
| 19 | If we flew a perfect mission every trip then there would be no need to train , but then in a perfect world we would not need an Army and I would be out of a job . |
| 20 | As her head wagged his embarrassment grew ; then in a low tone she muttered , ‘ Here she comes . |
| 21 | Then in a louder voice she cried , ‘ You took me to see him , do you remember ? |
| 22 | ‘ No ! ’ whispered Jack , then in a louder voice he said commandingly , ‘ Go for it ! ’ |
| 23 | Then in a cool voice he dictated the four letters while she tried to keep up with him . |
| 24 | Then in a dry tone he observed , ‘ In that case , you are right . |
| 25 | Briefly she was left speechless by his audacity , then in a strangled voice she went on , ‘ All I have in mind is a breath of fresh air and to … to talk . ’ |
| 26 | Then in a few minutes they were gone and quiet descended on our yard — but not for long . |
| 27 | You 'll take him home with you to avoid gossip , and then in a few days he 'll be fit enough to leave the country . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Then in a few months you could have a thriving business here , Mr Robinson . |
| 29 | The deep sea-blue eyes were unreadable , yet in a strange way she felt pinned to the spot by them , like a butterfly trapped and doomed to die . |
| 30 | Yet in a curious way it was John who did more to restore Sam than any of them . |