Example sentences of "[conj] in [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the patients need is to have emotional fear and pain acknowledged and expressed through words , tears or in whatever other way they find helpful . |
| 2 | A poor Provençal family might find their great son 's version of a familiar dish lacking in savour , although in its original form it would have made , with a saucerful of olives and perhaps a dish of fresh figs , an entire meal . |
| 3 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 4 | Although in her 94th year it was always a pleasure to visit . |
| 5 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 6 | There is little point in getting worked up about the way different people use words ( although in my nonprofessional life I am quite prepared to get worked up about people who boil lobsters alive ) . |
| 7 | His outburst , following McKendrick 's denial of the existence of absolute moral principles ( p. 78 ) , impolitely reverses the agreement maxim to emphasise his disagreement and although in his next turn he apologises for his outburst , the impression made by his interruption remains strong because it is accompanied by a violent gesture : The importance of physical gestures as a part of the dramatist 's characterisation is indicated by this episode , for , as Stoppard 's stage directions emphasise , Anderson 's anger is strongly conveyed through the one physical action . |
| 8 | Hillary was acclaimed not only as a born writer but also as a representative of the doomed youth of his generation , although in his constant self-analysis he was in fact a most untypical British fighter pilot of 1940 . |
| 9 | For , to conceal the fact that in her utter astonishment she was looking ready to drop , Naylor moved his chair closer to her and drew her attention by planting a light and loving kiss on her cheek . |
| 10 | She knew he 'd worked for Bonanza , and the chances were that in her nervous condition she would n't question his appearance . |
| 11 | Furious , she glared at her half-empty wine glass , realising that in her abstracted mood she 'd drunk far more than she normally allowed herself to drink . |
| 12 | Because there are children and therefore the woman has obviously been part of a couple at some point , there is an assumption that in her single state she is critical , cynical and undermining of couples around her . |
| 13 | As his course of study at the School of Architecture , University of Manchester , demanded a period of practical training in an architect 's office , William Assheton decided to spend this time working in Coventry so that in his spare time he could design and supervise the conversion of the chapel into a dwelling for his own use . |
| 14 | Labov reports ( personal communication ) that in his early work he once played back to a woman a tape-recording of her own casual speech to prove to her that her image of her accent was inaccurate . |
| 15 | In 1988 , he told an Iranian living on social security , found guilty of using a forged rent book and inflicting grievous bodily harm , that in his own country he would have had an arm chopped off ‘ or something similarly spectacular . ’ |
| 16 | Roberts suggests that in his own way he 's as obsessed as the people he 's observing . |
| 17 | She realised that in his own way he was being considerate , for by refusing to talk she was laying herself open to torture . |
| 18 | Well , I remember my father saying of the old Baron that in his last illness he talked all the time of there being a grandson . |
| 19 | And finally , brethren , let us ask the Almighty to look down upon us and our endeavours with His special favour , beseeching Him that He may send a blessing upon our daily tasks , and that in His infinite wisdom He may smite our enemies , and destroy those who would destroy us . |
| 20 | The new York Times declared that in his White Revolution he had " aligned himself directly with the workers and peasant against conservatives and traditionalists " . |
| 21 | I decided that in my present state I could n't face Moscow , and having discovered about the hot , spring baths of Budapest and the chess players who stand in water at 76 degrees Celsius , leisurely moving the pieces , decided that it was the place for me . |
| 22 | I assure you that in my professional capacity I come across many jurors who are both indigenous Britons , and quite advanced in years , who do not fit into the ‘ long tradition of honesty and fair-mindedness ’ . |
| 23 | I think that in my secret eating I was saying , speech also being an oral activity , all the resentful and hostile things I wanted to say about the school and about my life in general . |
| 24 | I can only say that in your own experience you must know it 's not that easy to stop loving someone . |
| 25 | If you guys think that in our middle age we 'll be at a Tupperware party while you do the Skye Ridge , you can roll your tartan shirts up and shove them . |
| 26 | It is for this reason that in our quantitative analysis we have treated speaker variables as independent of one another . |
| 27 | I suggest that in our social hospitality we should follow an example set by India during the war years and limit the number of guests at all such functions to fifty . |
| 28 | So can we just develop that one says that in our own department they put it up on the wall so people complete it themselves . |
| 29 | If on my time you prepare that waste wood into bundles such as any man could store at home , and if in your own time you will carry those bundles around the town and distribute them free , to rich and poor alike — but not to any man who was landlord to any among us — we may together teach them — ’ The rest of his words were drowned in a universal roar of delight . |
| 30 | Chemically , it is similar to cellulose and in its pure form it is flexible and permeable . |