Example sentences of "[adv] in [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was n't like love at all , this was n't what she felt when they kissed , or when he put his mouth behind her ear , or rubbed his hands over her stomach , or when , alone in her own bed she had imagined he was there with her . |
| 2 | Though perhaps in his blustery way he did try to be friends with them . |
| 3 | ‘ So in my perfect republic it would be simple . |
| 4 | And always in its straight bole I have a stop watch to tell me whether the slowest clouds are sliding and at what a pace a storm is travelling . |
| 5 | Early in her first premiership it caused her a moment of acute embarrassment . |
| 6 | Early in my first tour I argued with my colleagues that I doubted it would be possible to ditch a Wimpy or a Whitley on water , particularly if there was a heavy swell . |
| 7 | Early in my journalistic career I learned that one should never use a preposition to end a sentence with — remembering it because it committed the error it condemned ; whatever the consequence , I was now fully convinced that Moose Jaw was not a bad place to be from . |
| 8 | And for once in her misbegotten life she was right . |
| 9 | The Singh home intrigued him because although Jazz — apart from his looks — was as normal as himself , once in his own house he took on a sort of foreign ambience , changing subtly into an Indian to fit into the undeniably different atmosphere . |
| 10 | She could n't help remembering the way Josh had looked , that afternoon in the front parlour , so wrapped up in his own misery she could n't reach him . |
| 11 | Wrapped up in his own debauchery he had not known of her plight until recently . |
| 12 | When the father turned 65 he gave up work , and ‘ at last he found he had a son , as later on in his old age I helped him and Mother all I could . |
| 13 | He says unless you know what goes on in his daily life you do n't realise what he goes through . |
| 14 | ‘ Family physicians ’ enjoy the most extraordinary regard in our society : somewhere in our joint head we need to see them as knowing , honest , trustworthy , benign and caring folk — the truth of the matter being that they are as forgetful , spiteful and drunk as the next person — and as likely to grow old , lecherous and incompetent as anyone else . |
| 15 | It soon became clear that somewhere in his furtive passage he had lost his way — that at least was the opinion expressed by the Bishop of Chester as he fended off Lord Charles 's passionate advances . |
| 16 | that falls down Hugh , is that people assume because they 've commented that , that when it comes out in its final version it 'll reflect their particular comment . |
| 17 | It had disturbed her enough , and even if the unwritten reproof had been solely in her own imagination she was not about to look again and check it . |
| 18 | I have always got up early and even now in my 75th year I can hunt , climb mountains and cover an 8 ‘ ft ‘ by 4 ‘ ft ‘ canvas in one day . |
| 19 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 20 | Leicester have got so many men back in their own half he 'll do well to make anything of this Collimore . |
| 21 | And equally in our new case we can say that your belief is unjustified because nothing you can point to suggests that this is a case where your belief is true rather than one of the ( admittedly rarer but still ) indistinguishable ( to you ) cases where it is false . |
| 22 | Even in her semi-conscious state she had been able to give them the phone number of her sister Margaret in Australia . |
| 23 | But even in her bemused state she heard , with fierce satisfaction , the harshness , the rapid breathing that belied his attempt to sound unmoved . |
| 24 | Even in my befuddled state I could see they meant trouble . |
| 25 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 26 | Having said that , even in my old Cub I used to suffer the same fate on occasion . |
| 27 | ‘ Pat would never like to be regarded as special but even in his critical condition he was still in fighting spirit . ’ |
| 28 | What was unusual in this case was that even in his great excitement he still carried the photographs of Koko and pointed to them repeatedly as he looked toward the teacher , who nodded and said ‘ Yes ’ to Sherman . |
| 29 | Here in his own house he was aloof , unsmiling , the man Jenna had first met , and it was almost impossible to believe that this man had held her , kissed her passionately , urged her to come here to stay with him . |
| 30 | Well in my second year I coxed one of the women 's university boats against well underneath the famous Sue Brown . |