Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] [indef pn] in the " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
2 | He went down there only to make tea or hide something in the fridge . |
3 | The Ford ‘ Edsel ’ , unveiled as the car that had everything in the way of advanced engineering , flopped like a dead duck with the public which presumably was little interested in engineering . |
4 | Tony takes the hint and decides not to wax equally lyrical about the Svalbard storm that kept everyone in the tent for seventy-two hours , unable to go out for anything . |
5 | The aims of the Fatherland Union were set out as being " to protect national interests , strengthen national unity and concord and unite everybody in the name of Bulgaria " . |
6 | Take two potatoes of the same variety and place one in the fridge on a high setting and the other in the vegetable rack for three days . |
7 | The idea that there is some grand unified theory that determines everything in the universe raises many difficulties . |
8 | ‘ The dog that did nothing in the night-time , eh ? ’ |
9 | They wanted a new start and found one in the form of nearby Hangman 's Wood , owned by the Marley Paving company . |
10 | His penis was as thick as a chair leg and measured something in the region of seven inches in a flaccid state . |
11 | But then there was also the ingenue , a young girl with all the sparkle of a Guy Fawkes night fireworks display , who appeared in one scene in a straw boater and what looked very like a parson 's dog collar and had everyone in the audience drooling — just as they had on Broadway where in New Faces she had had her break a few months before . |
12 | I am hopeful that we will find a consistent model that describes everything in the universe . |
13 | The company 's ability to adapt to new opportunities and capitalize on them depends on its capacity to share information and involve everyone in the organization in a systemwide search for ways to improve , adjust , adapt , and upgrade . |
14 | , but then , when you come to the lunatic fringe then supervisor 's will cut an awful lot of corners to prevent them busting up the office or punching somebody in the nose , a real , I do n't mean people who are just stroppy , I mean the real lunatic . |