Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , his capital city of Aachen ( Aix la Chapelle ) was partly chosen because of its hot springs , where Charles swam daily in the great bath . |
| 2 | I want to begin by going back to an argument that Aristotle put forward in the Ethics , since I think that the point at which his argument breaks down can illuminate the nature of the problem some feminist thinking has faced . |
| 3 | Although Pakistan inched forward in the eight overs following the welcome tea-break , England were pulling the strings . |
| 4 | Whether that would have been , at that time , for the benefit of the mass of the Chinese people we 're talking about erm I do n't think I , I rather think that the er turn that Mao took probably in the long run , in the long term , was to the benefit of the mass of people erm the peasantry , the workers in China because I think the alternative would have been erm international exploitation . |
| 5 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 6 | In the back of the car , Henrietta and Samantha made exaggerated vomiting sounds at the very thought of it , and Jacqueline joined enthusiastically in the pantomime . |
| 7 | Both Seve and Irwin played badly in the third round , but you 're never going to do a good score at Lytham when it feels like three degrees below freezing and there 's a gale blowing , are you ? |
| 8 | MP and JF to get together in the meantime , to see if any short-term improvements are possible . |
| 9 | Even so , the tensions between the EEC and EFTA abated somewhat in the early 1960s . |
| 10 | If Cipriani achieved little in the way of goals , he did , as C.L.R.James put it in his biography of the man — ‘ expand our conception of West Indian public personalities ’ . |
| 11 | The draw itself is expected to last no more than 10 minutes , although there is always the chance of the sort of hiccup that occurred before the 1982 tournament when Belgium and Scotland ended up in the wrong groups — and there was the embarrassed re-examination of screwed-up slips of paper such as might be seen when the vicar 's wife wins both the turkey and the hamper in the Christmas raffle . |
| 12 | Artists from Sussex and Normandy come together in the ‘ Spirit of ‘ 92 ’ . |
| 13 | so the most-talked-about terrace-player gets another half-page over here — if Frank play well in the US that might make it easier for him to get a new club . |
| 14 | In Europe the names of Hitler and Mussolini appeared increasingly in the news . |
| 15 | Once again David and Julia ate together in the kitchen at the scrubbed wooden table . |
| 16 | If Israel stays permanently in the West Bank , the Arabs will not offer peace ; and the American Congress is not likely to support sanctions against Israel . |
| 17 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 18 | We climbed a little further and Arthur cooled off in the tarn . |
| 19 | Clare and Jacky conferred briefly in the kitchen while Carolyn stood awkwardly smiling at the woman . |
| 20 | Without bothering to speak again Michael and Geoffrey got back in the Mercedes . |
| 21 | There were no soldiers in the store-rooms and Rabscuttle bid there in the dark . |
| 22 | Christina , Stephen and Celia huddled together in the master bedroom on the first floor , listening to the whirlwind hell-bent on destruction . |
| 23 | and then er dad and Mike come down in the Sierra and met us in the pub . |
| 24 | ‘ And a better son he is to me than you 've ever been a daughter ! ’ raged Lucier , whereupon Gabriel sat down in the mud and wept silently , his head clamped between his knees to shut out all sights and sounds . |
| 25 | We put our litter back into our rucksacks as all the bins were full to overflowing , and Elinor and Otley set off in the direction of Fair Hill where all the caravans were resting . |
| 26 | I retreated from this scintillating conversation and helped Oliver and Cathy clear up in the kitchen , and shortly before eleven we slid to a halt in the port that was halfway across Canada on some rails parallel with but a little removed from the station buildings . |
| 27 | Ari and Nathan hung around in the doorway until they looked up , feeling they needed permission to enter . |
| 28 | Marguerite was sleeping and Jenna crept downstairs in the silent house and made her way to the kitchen to fix herself a milky drink . |
| 29 | Speed had dropped back and Wallace moved upwards in the second half . |
| 30 | The unexpected course of events aroused considerable alarm , and the terms of the peace treaty provoked open opposition with Germany , Russia and France joining together in the so-called Triple Intervention to demand that Japan return the Liaodong Peninsula to China . |