Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [pron] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They both know it 'll be all right between them in a bit . |
| 2 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 3 | Kohler said : ‘ I offered David the chance to come in with me in a partnership but unfortunately he could n't come up with the necessary amount . ’ |
| 4 | Yussuf bore down on her in a fury . |
| 5 | Isabel had one quick glimpse of the fire smouldering in fitzAlan 's eyes as he lifted his head , then his mouth came down on hers in a kiss of such male dominance that she went completely limp . |
| 6 | The atmosphere in his office seemed to be closing in on her in an intimacy which she must avoid at all costs . |
| 7 | It was really awful , travelling back to Leeds and finding your life cave in on you in a week . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's just like something in a film , ’ she said . |
| 9 | He 'll never let you get away with anything in a ward even if he 's been pining with unrequited love for your aunt for God knows how many years . ’ |
| 10 | and there are three two or three sizes of ads that er I 'm going to show you er go through with you in a minute . |
| 11 | The whole upper valley of the river Maran stretched away from them in a succession of rich pasture , coppice , and deer park . |
| 12 | As I watched , the whole world seemed to swim away before me in a mist — Silver , the birds above , the tall Spyglass hill . |
| 13 | You got right through to me in a way nobody has ever done before . |
| 14 | Then Ted can work out a market price and phone it through to you in a day or so . |
| 15 | But mostly I imagined you asleep , left utterly to yourself in a situation where my own absence from your life did not matter : |
| 16 | ‘ Garry and Maeve intend to take their time in getting it over to him in a way he will understand , ’ said 72-year-old Luise , of Milton Keynes , Bucks , yesterday . |
| 17 | Get your x-rays done and they 'll send the results over to us in a week . |
| 18 | This hit home for me in a 10-mile traffic gridlock around Birmingham last weekend , gazing at the rows of orange cones he swore to sweep away with Citizens ' Charters while listening to his critics savage his new improved Classless Honours List . |
| 19 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |
| 20 | If you must get into a dilemma then charge further into it in an attempt to gain control of your destiny once again . |
| 21 | The group of pirates had clustered in one corner of the bar , and we all staring directly at me in an unblinking , bloody-icing way . |
| 22 | She struggled not to run screaming from the office , seeing the trip ahead , knowing what would happen , that desire , that overpowering excitement flaring up between them in a hotel bedroom somewhere on the other side of the world , dragging her deeper into a relationship that was already tearing her to pieces . |
| 23 | He would have to move into a school where the powerful names were still Bethune-Baker ( though he was retired ) and Marsh and Raven and he would be , intellectually speaking , up against it in a way that he was not at Durham . |
| 24 | He caught up with her in a couple of strides . |
| 25 | She turned angrily back to the car , but Guy caught up with her in a couple of strides , catching her shoulders , spinning her back to face him . |
| 26 | Stuart 's Mum rushed up to him in a panic . |
| 27 | The Englishman told me that if someone came up to him in a queue he would punch him in the face . |
| 28 | But he gets very angry if they come up to him in a restaurant when he is eating or if he is busy talking to someone else , ’ says Marci . |
| 29 | There was something in his tone that brought her eyes up to his in a look of vibrant anger . |
| 30 | FitzAlan must have seen something in her face , because he took her hand briefly , his fingers tightening ever so slightly around hers in a gesture meant to reassure . |