Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post-GLC and with Third Term Thatcherism staring it in the face , Labour did , in a sense , revert to type . |
| 2 | The movie version blows it in the first couple of minutes . |
| 3 | The NatWest Hospital Income Plan covers you in the event of hospitalisation and pays out from the first day you 're admitted . |
| 4 | For example , let's say an old lady with a walking stick approaches you in the High Street and asks you the way to the nearest public toilets . |
| 5 | Mr Fox said that original fittings , including Winston Churchill 's hotline and the phone booth housing it in the Admiral 's offices , will be installed early next year . |
| 6 | For Doumen 's six-year-old had already won most of France 's top chasing honours including the big one , the Grand Steeplechase de Paris , and had all but beaten the best of the British at Cheltenham back in March 1991 when only the nose of Garrison Savannah denied him in the Gold Cup . |
| 7 | The first person angle puts you in the shoes of your character on the court . |
| 8 | One of the effects is that a survey of a range of prep school publicity material revealed nothing in the way of knocking copy aimed at other schools within or outside the private sector . |
| 9 | Hollywood produced duds too , but could package them up with surefire-winners like the Chaplin shorts and insist that the cinema booker buy everything in the package . |
| 10 | our Charter City to place you in the stall |
| 11 | We often feel like one of the black sheep of the independent sector — accepting a licence fee puts you in the not-serious programme makers ' league . |
| 12 | Yvonne Paul whose The Glamour Game ( W H Allen , £2.95 ) tells all about the Glamour Biz sent me in the blouse off her back , drenched in exotic perfume , as a ‘ thank-you ’ after I 'd interviewed her for the Daily Mail and mentioned how much I liked her get-up . |
| 13 | A handful of what he thought was heather thatch caught him in the face , but it was n't : a corn-stack had been pushed over and some of the netting had burst . |
| 14 | A dolf ball hit me in the mouf fo now I fpeak funny ! |
| 15 | My hon. Friend would then understandably say , ’ How does it come about , then , that North Devon health authority finds itself in the position that it does on this referral ? ’ |
| 16 | When the doors of the huge dining room at the zoo were thrown open we were first in , but a sergeant cook met us in the entrance with : " I want three volunteers for dishwashing — you , you and you , " and marched us away . |
| 17 | By the time the British railway system stabilised itself in the late 1860s , every foot of rail between the Scottish border , the Pennine hills , the sea and the River Humber was controlled by the North-eastern Railway . |
| 18 | The disconcerting truth was that , unless it was a brain scan to determine what in the world had possessed her to behave the way she had just now , she had no idea at all what she needed … |