Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me that the previous year she had confided to an American friend in Rome that the two people who most fascinated her in the world were Albert Schweitzer and Herbert von Karajan ; and a year later she was sitting in an empty hall with Walter Legge , Elisabeth Schwarzkopf , and Herbert von Karajan listening to a private recital on the organ by Albert Schweitzer . |
| 2 | Shoreditch eventually found it in a dictionary of American slang : ‘ A horse who wins a race by prearrangement ; a person , team , candidate , etc , who will or did win easily . ’ |
| 3 | Vic swings on to the motorway , going north-west , and for a few miles gives the Jaguar its head , moving smoothly up the outside lane at 90 , keeping a watchful eye on the rear-view mirror , though the police rarely bother you in the rush hour , they are as eager as anyone to keep the traffic flowing . |
| 4 | It was easy enough to spot them in the distance if they were in a clearing on the mountainside , but extremely difficult to detect them as Abdullahi and I approached through a tangle of giant heath that rose far above our heads . |
| 5 | Time enough and soon enough to greet them in the morning 's light when the men would have said their prayers and the womenfolk would have been to Mass and a stranger with a fiddle might be a welcome diversion from the day 's chores . |
| 6 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 7 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
| 8 | Churchill , the First Sea Lord and England 's hero , could only describe it in the House on October 17 as ‘ a remarkable exploit of skill and daring ’ . |
| 9 | Your PC and Creation 6 has more than ample capacity to store all your patterns and is your main storage area , so keeping them in the console memory after they have been used is not only pointless , it is possibly dangerous . |
| 10 | To follow the close-up of the pre-headed letter , the first shot should show all the performers together to establish them in the setting . |
| 11 | You 've been clever enough to catch me in a honeytrap partly of my own making ! |
| 12 | After a few weeks , Mr Sowerberry decided that he liked Oliver 's appearance enough to train him in the undertaking business . |
| 13 | But as Celia says , the trouble is that so many people , they will only buy it in a year . |
| 14 | Which is sold everywhere today , you could only buy it in a chemist shop , tea . |
| 15 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 16 | It felt good to talk about it , to describe her sense of total humiliation at having , as it were , bared herself to Matthew only to find him in a dressing gown , with some … strumpet drinking coffee with her dress half-unbuttoned . |
| 17 | She liked Robert Urquhart and was attracted to him , even trusted him , unlike Spittals who was no doubt gleefully stabbing her in the back at that moment . |
| 18 | But he let her go , only cradling her in the circle of his arm . |
| 19 | Yet I can only picture her in the posture of Candice Riberon in Le Métro lying on her back , her face caught in an agony of uncertain provenance . |
| 20 | ‘ If the weather 's dry and if you do n't mind how you treat your car — or maybe you could only do it in a jeep , I 've never tried it . |
| 21 | If I have to lose it , I 'll only do it in the ring . |
| 22 | Green is a restful colour , so put it in a room where you want to relax |
| 23 | You only spread it in a square no bigger than the width of the roller . |
| 24 | And when you come back down put it in the oven . |
| 25 | We 've argued for years about meals on wheel service that there should be seven day a week service throughout this authority , we 've only got it in the City , we want it throughout the authority . |
| 26 | Twice he needed to have attention from a doctor on the course but battled on to record a four under par 66 which was good enough to leave him in a tie for 9th place , nine shots behind the winner , Eduardo Romero from the Argentine . |
| 27 | That was good enough to put him in the lead for the amateur half of the tournament . |
| 28 | She 'd imagined herself deeply in love with a man who 'd spun her impossible yarns of riches and position , only to abandon her in the end to shame and ridicule . |
| 29 | But these were risky gains : with little animal manure and no capital , the peasant broke up more land than he could use , only to abandon it in a drought or when prices fell . |
| 30 | I commiserate with my hon. Friend on his misfortune this evening , in finding himself inadvertently supporting us in the Lobby . |