Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Jarvis 's money brought him in a tiny income , on which it was just possible to subsist if he walked everywhere , never went to the cinema , ate anything nice , smoked , drank , bought new clothes nor used the phone . |
2 | Robyn 's look left him in no doubt . |
3 | Nicolo 's mouth captured hers in a slow , insolent kiss . |
4 | Dignan 's attempt to reformulate it in a ‘ progressive ’ way could therefore be seen as partisan , and therefore necessarily outside the ambit of a ‘ rights ’ approach . |
5 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
6 | The firm 's management approached us in the summer of 1980 , asking if we could find out ‘ what had happened ’ to their former employees , and agreed to provide the names and addresses of those who had lost their jobs . |
7 | Newley 's body ambushed him in the darkness . |
8 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
9 | Seasons : At an altitude of 2,475′ ( 750m ) , this mountain crag faces NE and gets morning sunshine , with the top third of Titan 's Wall receiving it in the evening . |
10 | Mrs Wood paid for the shoes , and Pip 's father put them in a box . |
11 | My need of M. Chaillot 's advice put me in a weak position . |
12 | As it was , the week he spent on Mrs Goreng 's tour confirmed him in the ideas he had brought with him . |
13 | Mrs Knight said Bruce 's daughter joined him in the house and cleared out a bureau which she had in the bedroom . |
14 | Sacko , a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) official serving in the Central African Republic , had been Finance Minister for six months before resigning in August 1987 in protest at the unwillingness of Traoré 's government to support him in a drive against corruption [ see pp. 36085-86 ] . |
15 | Then the Soviet authorities bowed to pressure and allowed the fiancée of Sakharov 's stepson to join him in the United States . |
16 | BEFORE Germany 's press caught him in a questionable stockmarket deal , Franz Steinkühler looked like a working-class hero . |
17 | In the novel , Parkin 's declaration leaves us in no doubt about what he feels and what he wants . |
18 | TONY WILSON 's win over Steve McCarthy in the British light-heavyweight title eliminator at Southampton last month , when McCarthy refused to continue after Wilson 's mother attacked him in the ring , has been officially ratified by the British Board of Control . |
19 | Clement 's prose puts him in a higher class than any of his extant pagan contemporaries , and he was able obliquely to refute pagan critics ( such as Celsus , writing 177–80 ) who thought Christians an anti-cultural lot , by decorating his pages with a rich variety of quotations and allusions taken from classical poetry and philosophy . |
20 | From the right-hand page Vron 's face stared me in the eye . |
21 | Bernice 's summons halted him in the doorway . |
22 | Fierce Eyes ' spear took it in the shoulder . |
23 | Growing up is hard to do , when the terms of your parents ' will keeps you in a perpetual state of childhood . |
24 | The girl , who can not be named for legal reasons , was in court to hear the judge dismiss her father 's appeal against a magistrates ' order placing her in the care of London 's Southwark Council under the 1989 Children Act . |