Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could lie in bed at night and in imagination move confidently around the cottage touching them in a happy exploration of shared memories and reassurance . |
| 2 | The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood . |
| 3 | But because of its fierce realism and deep antipathy to authority ( whether it comes in the guise of nationalism or Catholicism , ) this culture is likely to resist any attempt to include it in the cosy consensus of Dublin as Europe 's cultural capital . |
| 4 | It should be noted this is a Post Graduate course , and it is not our intention to include it in the main embalming course . |
| 5 | It is an unrelieved black except for the white flanks but a watcher catching it in the right light might see the head has an iridescent purple sheen which can be striking . |
| 6 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 7 | When in the " sick Chicken " case of 1935 the Supreme Court ruled against the act , declaring Federal code-making an unconstitutional interference with the authority of the separate states , Roosevelt made no attempt to revive it in a new form . |
| 8 | ‘ I have also been to the Guildhall , ’ he mournfully concluded ‘ The mayor told me in no uncertain terms how displeased His Grace the Regent Duke of Lancaster is at our lack of progress . |
| 9 | Nicolo 's mouth captured hers in a slow , insolent kiss . |
| 10 | And his hard mouth claimed hers in a burning kiss that sent her pulses racing , a muffled gasp of pleasure coming from her as her mouth opened hungrily beneath his . |
| 11 | How much better it is to remove trees carefully rather than wait for a gale to do it in an uncoordinated way . |
| 12 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 13 | It 's not a federated system , it actually , positively talks about moving forward as Professor states it in the economical situation the council is in . |
| 14 | But , while these points may be reasonable , and some of them may be true , this attempt to embed them in a general theory or schema seems unhelpful . |
| 15 | Obediently she returned the gesture , meeting his mesmeric gaze , feeling the power of his appraisal bathe her in a tingling aura before taking a deep , refreshing swallow . |
| 16 | ( Paradoxically the release of tension enabled him in the next week to run up , turn out , patch together , a poetical melodrama about Cabestainh with which the house-guests had some civilised fun . ) |
| 17 | In 1318 , after an attempt to poison him in the previous year , John XXII thanked Margaret for sending him ‘ a certain knife-handle in serpentine form ’ which was reputed to detect poison . |
| 18 | The Buid resent the use of the term and the attempt to place them in the moral as well as material debt of the lowlanders . |
| 19 | Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken . |
| 20 | A first attempt to introduce it in the 1850s failed . |
| 21 | On the other hand , the buyer will wish to have the comfort of the guarantee , and , in addition , whatever rights law and statute grant him in the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 22 | The cockroach has a similarly high-speed existence and can react to any attempt to crush it in a fiftieth of a second , while our own reaction time is a tenth of a second . |
| 23 | It was difficult to remember the route , but Lowell 's van in the bottom field signposted them in the right direction . |
| 24 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 25 | IRELAND , bottom of the Five Nations ' Championship last season , may turn to a Welshman to lead them in the 1995 rugby union World Cup in South Africa . |
| 26 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
| 27 | That is the same price Leeds council paid them in the mid 1980 's and about £2.5m less than the local authority are looking for now . |
| 28 | Delight flooded her in a great wave , and — oh yes , I am right ! cried her mind . |
| 29 | In 1973 the Ladies ' Committee concerned itself with this seat reporting ‘ It was a pity to leave it in the wet even if only there for the time being ’ . |
| 30 | His years in England as a student of law involved him in an earnest effort of adaptation , and it is clear from his own account that he absorbed through his reading and his acquaintance a sense of British moral aspiration , for which he acquired a genuine respect . |