Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [noun] in [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , just before his interview with Meese , he had dropped in to see McFarlane in his office precisely , McFarlane thought , to agonize over the fact that the diversion was a matter of record : ‘ I put it in a memo to the Admiral . ’ |
| 2 | He figures Sun only has price in its corner and claimed Apollo users , the last of the die-hard zealots opposed to Sun on religious grounds , wo n't be budged simply on price . |
| 3 | He not only has room in his science for God ; he tries to create God using only some laws of physics , some simplifying assumptions , some outrageous extrapolations , and truly cosmic gall . |
| 4 | ‘ But surely no one would be mad enough to hide gelignite in his room ? ’ said Amiss . |
| 5 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 6 | But it remained uncertain whether they were strong enough to create conditions in which peace could be negotiated even on the most minimal of their terms . |
| 7 | In a similar study , Lawani & Bayer found that 14% of the highly rated papers in their study of cancer research were not highly rated by peers , and that only 2.3% of their highly rated papers were never cited . |
| 8 | The four men want to open a much needed bakery in their home town of Marghita in Romania . |
| 9 | Jordanhill also gives priority to students from sparsely populated areas in its hostel ; offers a Gaelic option in its Primary Diploma course and is associated with the Western Isles Bilingual Project . |
| 10 | The morning she saw him she suddenly felt butterflies in her stomach . |
| 11 | Thomas took himself a wife , Elizabeth Cooke , one of the three Cooke sisters , who greatly influenced society in their day . |
| 12 | Mathematics textbooks present the notion of profit in a way which can only confuse students in their quest for an understanding of the term . |
| 13 | These broad themes taken together led us to put forward a proposal for a anew divorce law in our book Grounds for Divorce . |
| 14 | Hindley only had room in his heart for two people , himself and his wife , so when she died , he was in despair . |
| 15 | The average person , irrespective of weight , has too much refined sugar in their food . |
| 16 | Clearly Adalard 's influence was great ( Nithard was not alone in identifying Ermentrude as " Adalard 's niece " rather than as the daughter of Count Odo of Orléans , Adalard 's brother-in-law , though an obvious reason could have been that Odo had died eight years before , perhaps leaving Ermentrude in her uncle 's care ) . |
| 17 | ‘ If you only have girls in your family , ’ said Wendy , ‘ how come you exist ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We only have girls in our family , ’ said Ken . |
| 19 | And coming back from the sea , laden with fish for their young , they can only find safety in their nest holes . |
| 20 | Finance people , being relatively simple-minded , have only learnt subtraction in their arithmetic lessons at school , and that 's what traditional cost control is . |
| 21 | Mr Fallon said he had talked to the longest serving officials in his department who said the expansion rule had been in place as long as they had been there . |
| 22 | If she rang now she might just catch Levkovich in his morning break . |
| 23 | That may be so , but it does not prevent people in our field from continually falling into the error of supposing that a solution designed to match one problem must be applicable to quite a different problem as well . |
| 24 | THE man accused of attempted murder of Coast to Coast walker Josephine Chandler will not give evidence in his defence . |
| 25 | They can not report nonsense in your writing , they do not judge accuracy , including spelling , nor can they detect incorrect word usage . |
| 26 | POLICE investigating a complex fraud case accused a man of inventing an alter ego so he could open bank accounts in his name , a court heard . |
| 27 | ‘ You will not use vulgarity in my presence , ’ he said , giving her a look of absolute coldness . |
| 28 | Studies of cognition which seek to elucidate the nature or that cultural order which we might impose upon or recognize in the world may well be concerned with the classification of objects , but they generally fail to acknowledge , let alone address , the difference between artefacts such as cutlery which already incorporate categorization in their manufac-turer , and objects such as trees which do not ( e.g. Rosch 1978 : 30–5 ) . |
| 29 | Erm , is it , would it , it showed you not to put words in her mouth , but I mean , it was nice to talk about Disneyland . |
| 30 | Thirdly , it does not inspire confidence in her work to find it not simply going beyond the independent evidence we have , but often going against it . |