Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] in [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Meanwhile in Egypt Isis had heard what Seth had done to her husband and in great distress she set out to find him . |
2 | Sometimes both came together : very few of our sample lived as far out of town as the mining village of Gilmerton , but one woman compositor who did was the daughter of a miner and in due course she married a miner herself . |
3 | In reality Roland had been killed in a Basque ambush at the Pass of Roncesvaux but in twelfth-century legend he died gloriously , fighting for Christendom in the great war against the infidel . |
4 | At some length and in careful detail I had told the story of David Damiani , Kanaan Abu Khadra , Fatima Zamzam and of another Palestinian woman , Rifka Boulos , who had lost land in Jerusalem . |
5 | Yes erm because I doubt it , erm at the moment with the fund that we 're talking about the erm the close scheme , because most of these people in B T were originally erm in the Post Office , and of course when the they split erm then the erm Post Office workers went over to B T , they get a B T pension but in actual fact they paid into a pension scheme erm for many of them for forty years because they come into that age group , where so many people , you took a job when you were twenty o or or sixteen and you stayed with it for life , you did n't chop and change like people do these days and the majority of our members erm we can go down and I would say the vast majority of our members have actually worked for the Post Office or starting with the Post Office and then B T or staying with the Post Office for forty years , there 's no end of them they 've got in there forty years service . |
6 | To each meeting members brought rare plants for general discussion and in due course they decided to publish their findings in a series of illustrated catalogues . |
7 | It 's called a quality system standard but in actual fact it 's a code of practice . |
8 | ‘ the transfer on its face was a perfectly regular sale and as against third parties taking a legal estate for value and in good faith it was within the ostensible authority of Mrs. Steed and can not now be repudiated against such third parties . |
9 | The Report declared that ‘ the country can not afford this wastage , humanly or economically speaking , ’ and therefore ‘ in human justice and in economic self-interest we ought as a country to give that help ’ to working-class youngsters who under-achieve at school . |
10 | But in politics and in real war he was a child , incapable of concentrating for long . |